CFL, AAF, XFL other pro football

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The AAF (Alliance of American Football) starts their season the weekend after the Super Bowl. As a second American pro league, I believe they have a real shot to survive. Steve Spurrier, Mike Singletary and Mike Martz are head coaches in this league, player salaries are under $100K a year and they are located in some good cities that presently don't have NFL teams. They also claim to be a developmental league as preferred to being a major league.

Alliance of American Football

I was able to watch week one of the AAF. The quality of play was what one would expect; upper minor league. But the pace of the game interested me, games are faster than normal NFL games.

Are you familiar with arena football? I have very fond memories of having season tickets with my parents and cousin for the 1999 and 2000 Buffalo Destroyers seasons

Slightly, I watched it a bit on NBC when it was on TV. I also saw one game in person, the last ever game for the Memphis Pharaohs when they played at The Pyramid (formerly a concert/sports arena, it is now a Bass Pro Shops).

I've heard of them. An arena football video game released by EA Sports in 2006 featured almost all of the league's bonus teams as unlockables, which was awesome as it allowed me to play as the Destroyers again

I think the AAL has doomed the XFL. There isn't a market for 2 minor leagues and the AAL came first and will be hard to destroy.

Unfortunately they only did that to get 2K out of the market, which is why they haven't done it again since.

I like the good old NFL myself.....

I did not know that!!