--- In womensfootballclub@yahoogroups.com, ballplayer87
<edgecyc@y...> wrote:

> Why on earth would anyone revoke a women's football team's license
to operate? For crying out loud, it's hard enough to get these
teams up and running successfully. I think maybe the leagues need a
few less operating rules and a lot more common sense.

You snipped the reasons that were given. I don't know anything
about the situation other than what I read here, so I'll just give
my synopsis, with no corroboration of the facts.

The message said that the Demolition's owner had sought to form
another league, possibly by peeling some teams away from the NWFA,
and reminded them that they had a non-compete clause (which usually
AIUI isn't enforceable under antitrust laws) in their membership
agreement. It also said the Demoliton's owner had tried to convince
a TV producer not to feature NWFA players from other teams on a
certain show. And it pointed out the Demolition was behind in its
dues to the NWFA. Presumably whoever runs the NWFA has to consider
the good of all the member clubs, and felt that the loss of the
Demolition would be less bad than the loss of the Demolition plus
other teams pried off into a new league, and that it was not good
for several NWFA clubs to forego the publicity in possibly having
their players on a TV show.

If the statements are true, it also seems the Demolition considered
themselves too good to remain tied to (or publicized on TV along
with the rest of) the NWFA. And even if those statements aren't
true, that conclusion is probably correct. So a divorce seems to be
a good thing.

Robert