A "wandering reader and seer" pointed this out to me:

It appears that a "veil of darkness" is falling upon TPM as there is mocking of Hail Mary, Blackwater charges, Wlliam Jefferson convicted, Coal industry bamboozlement and forged letters from Hispanics and Blacks, investigation into Brown....There is much more word frequency study, semantical affinity and content analysis left to be done....But time is limited....So much "dissimulated unlightness" all at once..."Steering" or "steering through"... Hopefully, the "real Sun" will return and will shine its "true light" upon it all....

I sort of think of it as a spring football league. It ought to work, there ought to be a market for it. The numbers all say it should work. The public can't get enough of football, after all, and no one really likes baseball or basketball all that much, or at least not enough to crowd out the possibility of, well, football, should be enough to sort out any objections. Damn it, it ought to work.

The new league launches with lots of fanfare, picks up a TV contract and some decent names and support. Attendance is okay, but tapers. Before long, though, the teams are scrimping, some are folding. The league contracts and then disappears, leaving those few passionate supporters wondering why.

The reason is simple. At the end of the day, people tend to stick with what they know. The owners of the game do everything they have to do to win. And the public likes football in the fall. They may think, and even say, they want something else, but they stick with what they already have, already know.

That's what will happen here. Which is too bad, because I absolutely loved the USFL.