The weekend that traditionally is the absolute bleakest, darkest for football fans is the one immediately after Super Bowl Sunday, those poor souls now facing a long and dreary offseason without so much as a jet-sweep, a blitz or a cover-2 in sight.
Enter something called the Alliance of American Football, in the general sense, and the Salt Lake Stallions, in the specific.
It is a new professional league, the Stallions a team in it, that may or may not grab your attention, and if it accomplishes the former, may also eventually grab your heart. Somewhere in between will be the dowsing of a thirst for more of the game that is most popular in this country.