The Alliance of American Football, an independent football league that was destined to fail without the financial support of the NFL, has failed. With two games remaining in the regular season, the AAF will announce today that it is suspending operations, according to multiple reports.
Though premature, this was always the destiny of the AAF. Every independent 11 on 11 football league that has come before the AAF has folded due to financial difficulty, from the USFL in the 1980s to the XFL in 2001 to the UFL from 2009-2012 and everything in between.