Tuesday, December 23, 2008

The NMLF continues to expand

National Minor League Football is like a family, and families can grow. Quickly. Monday, the NMLF added two more Texas teams, to grow that contingent to 12. With the arrival of 6 more in Arkansas and Tennessee in January, this takes us to 18 teams in 3 states. That's not all. Within two weeks, the league will dispatch an envoy led by the Chaiman of our Ways and Means Committee, Truman Vernon of the DFW Xpress, to Louisiana to negotiate the addition of 7 more teams in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. That would bring the total to 25 teams in 6 states. As stated here, our initial goals were modest, 16 teams would be good, but we could play with as few as 7, if necessary. After all, that number (16) would eclipse the number that other leagues like the TUFL started with, and we'd be in more states than them as well. However, the NMLF is about quality, not quantity, so numbers don't tell the true tale of how we do things around here. Although I must say, with all of the doubters and members of a certain league taking shots at us, mainly saying that we wouldn't have enough teams, it feels good to have exceeded our goals. Also, unlike that certain league I spoke of, we won't be scared to put them up on our website for all to see. The only thing stopping us is that we keep adding news teams every week, but I promise you, within the week we'll have at least the 18 we talked about up and ready to go. As for the others, stay tuned. The NMLF: Like a big family, growing all the time.

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