Go to NPL’s site and you will be startled by the opening four notes of Monday Night Football.

You will be told that the National Polo League is identical to the structure of the NFL (National Football League), but you won’t be told that there are no stadiums to house each of the seven “franchises” listed. You won’t be told that there is no television contract that pours millions of dollars into the community coffers of the league and you won’t be told the names of the “owners of professional sporting franchises between the NFL and the NHL”.

You will be erroneously told that the NPL is the first for profit professional sports organization in the world for polo” and you will be expected to believe this with the nonchalance of a Madoff investor plunking down five million dollars.

You will be told that “seven major cities have been unveiled” (not quite sure what that is supposed to mean), “working in partnership with Economic Development Authorities” (I know that I don’t understand what they are trying to convince me of here) “and business men and women seeking to either sponsor, purchase or co-own a franchise in the NPL”.

Does anyone remember the ill-fated NAPL? The investors are still trying to find out where their money went.

They tell you that it is going to be identical to the structure of the NFL yet offer it (NPL) as “the governing council for pro-am polo”. Just what we need, another self-appointed authority on polo. They don’t seem to offer any credentials of the organizers or rosters of the teams (Washington D. C. Patriots, New York Empires, Miami Sharks, Chicago Wind, Dallas Spurs, Los Angeles Stars and the San Francisco Shakers).

They tout the buildup to the “Superbowl of the Polo Games” as being held in May of each year, yet for the 2009 calendar year, May 9 is the first of four games scheduled (followed by one game in June, one game in September and one game in October).

The tell you that it will attract a television viewership of 5 million people and attract 20,000 spectators!

They are recruiting players with a US handicap of 1 or greater” which should give you some idea of the caliber of play and definitely eliminates the prospects of being “identical to the structure of the NFL”.

The “Commissioner of the NPL” is mentioned-but not by name, hmm, could it be Bernie Madoff?

The opening page also states that part of their “mission is to bring the sport of polo back to the Olympics”, like the NFL is, I guess.

You’re going to have to read the rest of it yourself, I’m beginning to gag.

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! How gullible do you think the polo community is? You waltz in with no credentials and one of the flimsiest of plans and expect people to line up to buy into this crap? Give me a break.

I fear that you might find the same person at the bottom of the NPL as you do for the “historic” America’s Polo Cup-Tareq Salahi. A self-created bit of window dressing that has been created to make you believe that there is something “official” about it.

(This is where Roger Stern is introduced as the National Polo League & Sports Commissioner)