Super League Roll Out is Worst Business Decision since New Coke

Billionaire owners tried to create NFL-style league in Europe

The 2016 Champions League final. The abortive Super League was an attempt to replace the Champions League with an NFL-style format. (Dan Noctor/Flickr)

If you’ve been following sports media, you might have become aware of the hullabaloo going on across “the pond” over the aborted attempt to launch the Super League. The European Super League was supposed to be a breakaway group of so-called “super clubs” that attempted to form an independent organization. According to The Liverpool Echo, several owners decided to form their own breakaway league styled after the NFL.

Four reasons why Liverpool owners FSG want Super League to copy NFL model

European soccer operates on a different system than major sports in America. The clubs are organized in leagues with relegation and promotion. This means that if you finish in the bottom three, you get relegated to the lower tier. And three teams from the bottom tier get promoted to the next tier.

I could write a lengthy article explaining how the English second tier is called the Championship and the English third tier is called Division One. Back in the ’80s, the second tier was called Division Two, but then…