To survive, UFL should learn from XFL
To the editor:
I'm a huge football fan. If a game is on live television, whether it's the pros, college or high school, I'll have it on. I don't watch basketball, except for UNLV, or baseball.
I was saddened but not surprised to see that the United Football League season (and perhaps the league's very existence) has come to a halt ("Debt-ridden UFL suspends season, eyes spring return," Sunday Review-Journal). I feel like the UFL made one major mistake.
The last pro football league to make a run for it was the XFL. It was shut down after one season when joint owner NBC pulled out. The World Wrestling Federation still almost moved forward with it alone.
The difference between the XFL and UFL? The XFL played in the spring, when they were the only ball game in town. For football fans, it was true bliss to continue to have football long after the Super Bowl ended.
By insisting on playing in the fall, the UFL joined a completely saturated television football schedule and tried to play on Wednesday nights, which is not family-friendly.
I wish them well and hope they can finish their season this spring, as is their intention. If they do, I hope they wise up and continue to be a spring league. Only then will they see XFL-type attendance numbers and league interest.
Ted Newkirk
Las Vegas
Pandering
To the editor:
In response to your Saturday article, "Candidates address Hispanics":
I hope I am not the only one who finds it extremely offensive that different groups are being pandered to during this election. Hispanics certainly are not the only group that candidates seem to want to address - there are Asians, women, blacks, Pacific Islanders and a number of religions.
This is such a divisive ploy, one used much more by liberals, kind of a divide and conquer mentality. The president uses it all the time, and I don't like it.
It is not OK to harm one group of people to prop up another. What is good for the American citizen should be good for the country.
Marcia Romano
Las Vegas
No ID required
To the editor:
On Saturday I went to the Boulevard mall to vote early. When I got to the check-in table and showed my photo identification, the person attending to me clearly indicated that all she needed to see was my sample ballot. I was a taken back a bit because there is so much talk about election fraud, and that she didn't look at my ID to verify that I was the person whose name was on the sample ballot.
She just scanned the sample ballot bar code, had me sign my name on a label (which had the information from the sample ballot) and sent me to the voting booth. I just shook my head, voted and left.
J.L. Booze
Las Vegas
Smooth operation
To the editor:
Nevada should be the early voting model for every state in the country. I voted Saturday with my mother, who is handicapped. Everyone who worked at the polls was very respectful, helpful and courteous.
The site I would like to commend is the trailer behind The Mirage. They had their act together. Saturday, I was proud to be a Nevadan.
Teresa Martin
Las Vegas
Votes the opposite
To the editor:
I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the editors of the Las Vegas Review-Journal for again publishing their extensive list of endorsements in Sunday's Review-Journal. Over the years, I have found the endorsements to be a valuable asset in making rational choices at the polls.
I simply review the recommendations of your editorial page and then vote the opposite.
Wallace J. Henkelman
Henderson
