The REAL Reason Why The AAF Collapsed… WHAT REALLY HAPPENED???
Six days after the Patriots defeated the Rams in a defensive battle also referred to as a boring game by today’s fan standards the Alliance of American football kicked off its inaugural season and what was to be a Developmental League for French NFL talents to continue their football careers this a Team spring Football League consisting of teams in warm weather cities like San Diego San Antonio and Memphis was to bring hard-hitting and high-quality professional football to the homes of millions be streaming through its own app the league also looked to provide support for its players through bonuses post football career planning and even Scholarship support for post-secondary education it sounded like something truly fantastic to be a part of
The AAF and its Connections to XFL
The AAF was founded by filmmaker and TV producer Charlie ever saw son of Dick Ebersol an executive at NBC and former business partner of Vincent Kennedy McMahon some 19 years earlier dick and Vince brought Us the XFL and what was to be a direct competitor to the NFL the XFL came out the gates fired the opening game between the New York New Jersey hitman and the Las Vegas outlaw drew an estimated 14 million viewers the next week ratings dropped and people realize product Wasn’t good in 2017 ever saw directed an ESPN 30 for 30 film this was the XFL drawing inspiration from the many mistakes his father invested man-made like taking on the NFL as opposed to a partnership the AAF wanted to create a league that was complementary to the NFL fostering a relationship between NFL Players management the ultimate goals could be a Developmental League for players coaches and officials along with an experimental testing ground for potential rule changes that the NFL could possibly adopt Charlie also chose to settle for smaller markets not opting to place teams and cities that are major Markets like New York Chicago or Los Angeles teams in Orlando Salt Lake and Birmingham fit the AAF because they weren’t competing with other sports and organizations and the football actually spoke for itself the XFL was hailed as an alternative to the no fundly but it was obvious that the play on the Field wasn’t even in the same universe the Alliance found former NFL talents and even brought in the ol ball coach Steve Spurrier to sure that the play on the field was better than its predecessor the Alliance had a ton of involvement from former NFL players coaches executives and much much more Former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers Mike Singletary was head coach of the Memphis express Dennis Erickson close to Salt Lake stallions and there was even a Christian Hackenberg site it wasn’t actually exciting he stuck up to joined big time so you could smell him coming from a mile away Other notable names involved with the league with Troy Polamalu Justin Tuck and Mike Martz and week one the Alliance came out the gates firing this hit by Shon Washington on Mike berkovichi sent social media into a frenzy hits on quarterback like this haven’t been seen in years without flags fines And suspensions if that was a hit on Tom Brady Sean Washington would have been sent directly to jail but in the AAF he put the legal on the map in its opening weekend that weekend the games between the San Antonio commanders and the San Diego fleet and the Orlando Apollo’s and Atlanta legends drew 2.9 million viewers beating the prime time broadcast of the Houston Rockets in the Oklahoma City Thunder and with more games broadcasting on Sunday the league claimed over 6 million people watched the Alliance in its inaugural weekend it was a big victory for ever saw and the AAF but This is where the problems had begun reports from the Atlantic stated that prior to the second week of the league’s existence they had problems making payroll charlie ever saw when the league refuted these claims heavily when on February 19th Carolina Hurricanes on her top London pump 200 County 250 million Into the league becoming the new chairman of the a yeah meanwhile on the field the level of play had been steady players like trent richardson who will arguably go down as one of the greatest players in alliance history we’re making names for themselves again on television there are and should be potential Players from this league that get looks in the NFL nation guys like Charles Johnson Luis Perez Garret Gilbert and others were big-time players for the league and they could compete the Orlando Apollo’s were night/day the best team in the league and was Spurrier at the helm in a seven in one record they Look to walks into the championship and face competition from either Arizona or San Antonio it was shaping up to be a great inaugural season truly they even got the service a former Heisman Trophy winner and former Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel and he didn’t really have a great AF rod But the trash talk was undeniable because he much you won’t start that way we can go I’ll turn up for you this league was exciting at times and the play felt like a really good NFL preseason game oxymoron I know but it still worked being it was a springle it Even caught the attention of Detroit’s own Eminem for those of you guys who might be too young to know who Eminem is it’s the guy that Chris D’Elia makes fun of in this car for points well uniform tourists get an abortion in the divorce indistinct I’m here supporting Eminem’s Tweet about allowing players to fight fuel rumors of expansion to the Detroit market Charlie ever saw even told the Detroit Free Press that quote he had really really high-level initial conversations with a couple of different people who reached out after Eminem’s tweet including some people from his team we are having conversations about Whether or not we’re going to expand next year and it’s really Tom Dundas decision immediately after this quote from the Free Press Tom Dundee revealed that the league was on the verge of voting what why there seemed to be a dispute between the NFLPA and the AAA yeah London was under the pretense that the NFL would allow its younger players who needed development to play in the Alliance simple enough right no not at all the NFLPA didn’t want to risk their players being uninsured and injured in the AAF therefore not being able to honor their NFL contracts makes Sense the NFL has its own league for developing talent it’s called the NC double-a the NCAA and NFL work in tandem to produce NFL caliber talent year any year out upon graduation so what would they need another system to develop town for yes younger players who need more game action like quarterbacks would Benefit greatly from a league like the AAA yes but the NFL’s involvement will cost them money so why bother gunden didn’t believe the aaf could succeed without the help of the NFL PA and these young players he was quoted saying if the players union is not gonna Give us young players we can’t be a Development League we are looking at our options one of which is discontinuing the and on April 2nd 2019 I’m done den and the AAF suspended operation now doesn’t seem to be an excited investor pointing to the Alliance and its TV ratings and his Willingness to build the leap saying quote other than if no one watches there’s not a scenario where I don’t have enough money to build a lead anchor so that’s what you need right an investor who is dedicated to building the league to stick around to see long-term success and the guy was a Bankroll Tom dunder was the guy who was going to take the AAF to infinity and beyond or so we thought rumors suggest that Tom doesn’t had ulterior motives by investing in the Alliance you see the AAF hired a Tesla engineer to develop technology that would be revolutionary…
