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December Lamb
Owner-Ohio Browns of the NTL

By: Mike Kirchgessner 

Cincinnati – It’s coming like it or not and December Lamb is going to make it work. The No Travel League (NTL) is a new league that will be based out of Cincinnati and will be targeting smaller or new up start Semi-Professional teams. If someone was interested in starting a Semi-Professional football team right now in this area they have three options the United States Football Alliance (USFA), Mid Continental Football League (MCFL), and the Heartland football league.  

All three of these leagues strive for a higher brand of football with bigger and better players. But what about the smaller guys that just want to play football and cannot compete against a division one athlete that is now on one of the current area teams? Are these types of players that are dedicated and disciplined destined to sit the bench and never actually play a game that their family has paid to get into? 

This is where December Lamb comes in to give a platform for these types of players to play on. Let the guys that show up to practice work hard and just want to do what they might not have been able to do with the Tri-State Sharks or the Kentucky/Ohio Xtreme, play football.  

In all aspects of sports there are different levels of competition. In baseball there is Rookie ball, A ball, AA, ball, AAA, ball, and the majors. College and high school sports have varsity and junior varsity, football had NFL Europe and the NFL, and so why not have different levels in semi-pro.  

The NTL is not looking to steal teams away from the USFA, MCFL, or Heartland but to help teams better prepare to make a move to these types of league. Help owners that have never run a team before get a taste of what it really takes to run a team, we all have seen team after team start and fold because an owner had no clue what it really took to run a Semi-Pro football team.  

Currently there are two teams and many more lined up to play in the NTL, December Lamb is not only helping to start the league with NTL commissioner AC Reed but he is also bringing back the Ohio Browns to play in the league and rumor has it that someone is bringing back the Cincinnati Falcons as well for the NTL. Other teams that might be interested in the NTL are currently in one of the three other leagues and cannot comment on their 2010 status at this time.  

Not everyone is going to agree with December Lamb and AC Reed for starting up another league in this region but there is a need for it, a place that players can go just to put the helmet on a play a little football and not worry about the high costs of some of the other teams in the area, or the drama that may come with it. There is a need for it and AC and Lamb are filling it.