Our one-week football-less nightmare is over.
This weekend sees the kickoff of the Alliance of American Football, a brand new football league from Charlie Ebersol and Bill Polian. There have been alternative football leagues in the recent past, of course; we've seen the birth and death of a whole alphabet soup of minor leagues over the past decade, including the UFL, SFL and FXFL. The AAF, however, promises to be a little different -- it's the most prominent minor football league launched since the XFL back in 2001.
The AAF launches with a bevy of household names on the sidelines and on the field, assuming your household loves journeyman NFL players and not-quite-there college stars looking for a second chance.