CARSON —
New pro-football leagues are funky and can be fun, unless you’re the one footing the bill.
Remember the new Alliance of American Football, which last winter staged games in San Diego?
Its players put on a decent show but the AAF folded before season’s end, claiming $50 million in losses.
Several hundred folks lost their jobs. When the money ran out, each Alliance team still had two games on its schedule.
Now comes the XFL making its second try, some 20 years after its first run lasted only one year.
“We’ve got a lot of improvement we can do,” first-time commissioner Oliver Luck said Sunday after the league completed its second round of a 10-week season, “but we’re playing pretty good football.