Alternate History Sports / An Alternate History of American Football: The NAFA

**Posted by FC Macbeth** 5/25/2019 3:20 am

Name: Reginald Wilkinson
Age: 56
Bio: Wilkinson is the owner of an auto racing team, Wilkinson Racing. Seeing an expansion project potential coming to his home state of Indiana, he promised the public in Indianapolis that their city will get a NAFA team. "If you wanna see football here, I'll give you one!", he said enthusiastically during the press interview.
Choices for Expansion: Indianapolis, Indiana ~ The closest to any team in the NAFA out of all the choices. Just stick to a place with cheap travel costs, ok?

Chicago, Illinois ~ Second closest to the league. Just with market size and football following larger than Indianapolis.

**Posted by CCLXXXVII** 5/25/2019 8:00 am

Name: James Robertson
Age: 34
Bio: Robertson is an aspiring sports commentator right out of Northwestern University, currently living in Cleveland. Despite his closest team being among the worst in the league, he has managed to land a job as a PA announcer with the Lumberjacks. However, he wants to take his career to a higher level, and thinks that giving NAFA teams to die-hard football cities, like Chicago, will help him do just that.
Choices for Expansion:
Chicago: Robertson's hometown team, close enough to the rest of the teams, and has a hardcore football fanbase. Shouldn't be a hard decision.

**Posted by RightGuard** 5/25/2019 8:39 am

Name: Rob Fisker
Age: 34
Bio: Executive at Tennessee Eastman, originally from Knoxville, wants to bring pro football to the South
Choices for Expansion: Chicago and Indianapolis

**Posted by Stickman** 5/25/2019 8:39 am

Name: Johnny Armando

Age: 41

Bio: Television executive for ABN (American Broadcast Network), one of the major 3 networks on television. Believes sports are the future for television ratings success. Although originally from Detroit, (which would have been his selection for expansion had it been an option) is currently stationed in Chicago, where he wishes to own a team.

Choices: Chicago obviously due to being located there and also being by far the largest market.
Indianapolis due to the fact that it may be too early for Houston (not to mention it'd be too far away from everyone else). It's definitely too early for Charlotte, which wouldn't be big enough yet to have a team.

**Posted by ~Bear** 5/25/2019 9:20 am

Name: William C. Hatcher Jr.

Age: 39

Bio: Hatcher’s father, William C. Hatcher, was the founder of Hatcher Agriculture Co., a farming equipment company of great success based out of Kansas. The elder Hatcher retired in 1942, leaving his young son in charge of the business. Since then, Hatcher Jr. has helped expand the company and increase clients and one of the few companies of its type to compete with John Deere. His growing fame and potential national outreach make him an interesting and influential candidate worthy of the expansion counsel. He’s taking a great liking to NAFA and sees expansion, like with his business, essential to dominate.

Choices:
Chicago: a no-brained of a decision. It’s the closest to the other teams and a huge, untapped market.
Indianapolis: the other three are a little more difficult. Hatcher Jr. believes Charlotte is not yet big enough for a team, and Houston is too far away. Indianapolis would still help expand west with Chicago and add a medium-sized market info the league.

Off topic, but now that we have 4 championships decided, there should be something on the first post commemorating this. Maybe just a list of champions or a graphic, but it might be hard to keep up with who has won what after a few more seasons.

**Posted by JG36** 5/25/2019 9:36 am

Truman Harry, 67
Harry wanted to run for president, but decided against it and returned to his job as President of... his family farm.

Votes
Chicago- Easy pick, there should already be a team there.
Indianapolis- It’s not that Harry thinks Indy should get a team, he thinks that Charlotte and Houston shouldn’t.

**Posted by Balu the Bare** 5/25/2019 9:55 am

Morris Sterling
-36
-A Texas oil baron who recently took over his father's company, Touchstone Oil. Played football in college and is determined to get a professional team to the southwest.

Chicago: Large market, large following and near other teams. It'd be a mistake not to put a team there. Chicago is the most obvious choice.

Houston: Like Chicago, the market and the fan base are too good to pass up. The worry that moving this far west could be cost prohibitive should be offset by the potential revenue gain from being in the larger Texas market.

**Posted by Rube Dali, the DodoHorse** 5/25/2019 10:11 am

Joshua Silferberg
53
President and General Manager of WDGY-TV, the Twin Cities O&O of the Central Broadcasting Company(CBC).

Choices, Chicago(obvious) and Houston, even though I have doubts on whether the team would be able to integrate their team.

**Posted by Magic Dynasty** 5/25/2019 10:35 am

Name: Alexandre Bernard
Age: 43
Bio: An top sportswriter for Le Journal de Montreal, and an avid Saints fan, Bernard has been a large part in growing the number of Francophone football fans.

Bernard votes for:
Chicago, Indianapolis

**Posted by DoctaC** 5/25/2019 11:47 am

Wow, thanks for all the participation in the expansion council everyone. I wasn't anticipating this many people to respond so quickly, so I'm going to be moving up the closing of the council to 4:00pm on Sunday May 26.

The votes currently sit at:
Chicago: 11
Indianapolis: 7
Houston: 3
Charlotte: 0

Last edited by DoctaC (5/25/2019 11:48 am)