Or you coupd get all RFL pro clubs and NRL pro clubs to provide 3 players on loan to american clubs for free - as development. Then you only need a handful of local players, supported by a domestic USARL/CRL amateur competiton. Livestream all matches on Apple TV, Amazon, whatever. Get the on-loan players to do some community engagement to get crowds - free tickets to school kids etc.
All of a sudden you have a quality product sitting above the USARL. Then, lobby with your quality product for sponsors, broadcast fees, government funding etc.
You don’t have 6-8 self funded teams like the Wolfpack to enter the RFL pyramid. The costs are silly, too.
After all that you're still going to be out billions of dollars spent in promoting the sport and getting the necessary infrastructure in place cause you ain't going to get anywhere near the necessary amount of investment in the form of sponsorship money, government funding, etc, cause there's basically no market for RL in the US so there's no value to them in dropping big amounts into propping it up, and even if they were interested in putting the amount of money necessary into lunching a new national competition they'd invest it in an off season American football comp and not a totally new sport (even then they've been nervous to do that after the fiascoes that the USFL and especially the XFL were).
You also aren't going to get Apple, Amazon, or any streaming platforms or the broadcasters to pay to much for the TV rights (if they'll pay for them at all) either cause it's not a proven product that rates.... And the loaned players aren't going to "get crowds" in the US (they often struggle to do that over here if we are honest), they are nobodies over there not celebrities.
So yeah unless you've got a bunch of billionaires hidden away somewhere that are willing to throw truly stupid amounts of money away for no return, or you know of a crazy American billionaire entrepreneur with the connections necessary to pull something like that off who's taken a liking to RL (keeping in mind that plenty of crazy American billionaire entrepreneurs who've attempted similar things still fail spectacularly most of the time) then it ain't happening...
The only way that RL can afford to crack the North American market is if the North American clubs can use the pre-existing structures in Eng and Aus as a crutch to prop themselves up until they've built a fan base big enough to support themselves independently.
You don’t have 6-8 self funded teams like the Wolfpack to enter the RFL pyramid. The costs are silly, too.
Your right, their aren't 6-8 self funded clubs in North America... Yet!
If the Wolfpack are successful then others will follow given time, hell there are/were already parties interested in following Toronto's lead and you couldn't say whether or not the WP have been a successful venture yet.
