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RBR Question of the Day: Is there a market for spring football?

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One of the under-the-radar stories of this offseason has been the steady formation of the Alliance of American Football. Far from being an XFL knockoff or an NFL Europe d-league, the AAF’s management and coaching talent seems to bring some credibility that professional spring football hasn’t really seen since the old USFL days.

...[The] Alliance of American Football has a much different feel to it. It may have been easy to brush of the league’s initial announcement, but then they started naming the head coaches of their teams and it was clear that the guys overseeing the league weren’t messing around.