Alliance of American Football

[OrangeAfroMan]

I'll go check it out in Feb/March.  8 teams, looking over the rosters.....
Arizona Hotshots
DT Will Sutton, ASU - All-American beast at DT not long ago, what's he doing here?
LB Scooby Wright, Arizona - ditto
QB Trevor Knight, OU/A&M
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Atlanta Legends
TE Gerald Christian, Louisville
WR Jeremy Gallon, Michigan
QB Aaron Murray, Georgia
RB Denard Robinson, Michigan
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Birmingham Iron
CB Chris Davis, Auburn (of kick-6 fame)
RB Trent Richardson, Alabama
QB Blake Sims, Alabama
WR L'Damian Washington, Missouri
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Orlando Apollos (who comes up with these?)
QB Austin Appleby, Purdue/Florida
QB Garrett Gilbert, Texas/SMU
 S  Will Hill, Florida
RB Akeem Hunt, Purdue
 G  Tre Jackson, FSU
WR Jalin Marshall, Ohio St
...and a bunch of Florida guys you've never heard of
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Memphis Express
QB Christian Hackenberg, Penn St
RB Kenny Hilliard, LSU
WR Pig Howard, Tennessee
QB Zach Mettenburger, LSU
RB Rajon Neal, Tennessee
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Salt Lake Stallions
WR Kenny Bell, Nebraska
....buncha guys from Utah, Nebraska, and Washburn?
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San Antonio Commanders
RB David Cobb, Minnesota
WR Speedy Noil, Texas A&M
QB Marquise Williams, North Carolina
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San Diego Fleet
RB Bishop Sankey, Washington
LB A.J. Tarpley, Stanford
DB Demetrius Wright, USC



I'm sure there's a bunch of B10 guys you'd all know, but there are some random-ass schools represented in these rosters.  Take a look if you get a chance.  Tickets are $20.  

[Brutus Buckeye]

Hard pass. 

[DevilFroggy]

I might legit go check out a Hotshots game.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Closest team to the Midwest is Atlanta or Memphis. 

Thread should be moved to the SEC board. 

[fezzador]

This'll last about as long as a mediocre 90s sitcom on FOX; about 1-2 seasons.

[ELA]

I feel like the way to sort of make this work, is to make it a true minor league.  Link each team to an NFL franchise, or maybe 2 or 4 teams share a minor league team.  Then play it in the spring, and play all the games in one location, Indianapolis or Atlanta or whatever, and put it on tv, put it on NFL Network or something.  You are never going to get people to care about their "local" team, with any of these start ups.  Certainly not to the point that your league is going to succeed at the gate.  So build it off established fan ships, and our thirst for football to make us try to care about a Packers or a Patriots minor league game in April, by putting it on tv.  I would bet NFL fans would watch "minor league" NFL football, but fans aren't going to go to these games in any sort of large numbers.  You could save in travel and stadium upkeep and what not by just putting it in one stadium all the time and making it a tv product, not an in person product (although you could go if you wanted to)