Posted on 02/06/2019 4:42:27 PM PST by Impy
What is it? A new minor league to test American's appitite for football and give players a chance to audition for the NFL. Founded by Charlie Ebersol and former NFL executive Bill Polian.
What are the teams and their head coaches?
Eastern Conference
Atlanta Legends, Kevin Coyle
Birmingham Iron, Tim Lewis
Memphis Express, Mike Singletary
Orlando Apollos Steve Spurrier
Western Conference
Arizona (Tempe) Hotshots, Rick Neuheisel
Salt Lake Stallions, Dennis Erickson
San Antonio Commanders, Mike Riley
San Diego Fleet, Mike Martz
Did they put a lot of thought into these team names?? Probably not.
How do you watch it? The inugaral game, San Diego at San Antonio, is on CBS, Saturday FEB 9th, 8:30 Eastern Standard Time (pre game at 8). There are 4 games a week, one a week will air on CBS Sports Network, Memphis at Birmingham at 4 eastern on Sunday FEB 5th, the rest will available on the AAF app for free.
Are the rules different from NFL? There are no kickoffs, teams will begin possesions on their own 25 yard line. There are no PAT kicks, teams will attempt 2-point conversions after each touchdown. There will be no TV time outs and fewer commercials. The play clock is 35 seconds instead of 40. Overtime will be "High School rules" each team gets a possention on their own 10 yard line, games end in tie if still tied after that. I don't much care for elimination of kickoffs cause I know the NFL wants to follow suit, they've already tried hard to ruin them so no one will care when they are abolished. No PATs probably makes it more interesting though.
Where can you find more info? The internet. https://aaf.com/schedule
Will this be the thread for the whole season or will it be weeky or whatever? That depends on interest level, my whims, and the whims of anyone else that might like to post AAF threads.
Is there a picks contest? I don't plan on it but feels free to make picks!!!
Should you care? Only if you want to. Feel free to just ignore the thread if you don't! Or you could troll it, whatever you want.
Thanks, that works also.
Maybe you need two TVs... 
one for sound, one for audio--
From the Iron/Salt Lake game: 
See that it says “5.4K Watching” on the Memes TV stream—
Zona finally scored a TD yet their PAT attempt intercepted—
That changed fast.
Wake up! Things are getting hot in the Zona/Express game—
Hotshots 20 Express 18 with 7:07 left in the 4th
I think if you are going to have a rival league, you have to structure in a way that NFL players wouldn’t necessarily be the best players in the league.
The easiest solution is to make it Single-Platoon football, where players have to play both offense and defense. That would be a very interesting twist on the game, and there’s a lot of NFL players that wouldn’t be able to hack it in single-platoon football.
This is just some guy illegally streaming NFL network on you tube so that doesn’t surprise me that not many are watching on that platform.
If it was an actual NFL game they’d care enough to have you tube take it down.
This is supposed to be more a “compliment” league than a rival. A rival would be airing at the same time.
Arena league tried that single platoon didn’t they? It sounds neat but I don’t know if it worked out that well, unfortunately.
The Express should change their name to Amtrack.
Both this and the Salt Lake/Iron game were competitive, more so than I expected.
I meant to share this with you peeps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pRFTLDtgeQ
Where any of you watching live? I hope the new XFL is better.
Nothing can compare to the farce that was the WFL.
http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story/_/page/zoni%2F091203
There’s an Alliance of American Football app that you can stream games.
I like naps 
RE: Wake up! Things are getting hot in the Zona/Express game—
Yawn...I was binging on Gotham. The colors from the Hotshots uniform would make it hard to sleep at night...and I like to sleep.
So far I’m 6-0 guessing...err...analyzing and selecting AAF game winners.
and this has the makings of a great game! Perhaps I should not have picked Orlando... 
earlier--
Looked away for a few moments and now wondering why Riley replaced quarterback Logan Woodside with Marquise Williams?
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