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Monson: The Stallions are gone. Say a prayer for pro football in Salt Lake City

This is a bummer. A bummer a blind man could see coming from 50 go-routes away, but a bummer, nonetheless.

You don’t really care because darn-near nobody around here even knew it existed in the first place. You didn’t have enough time to get acquainted with it, let alone get attached to it — just 52 days.

“Pray for us,” said Gionni Paul, a former Utah Ute and now former Salt Lake Stallion linebacker who isn’t sure what his football-playing future holds.

I went to exactly one Alliance of American Football game, the Stallions against the Memphis Something-er-others, at Rice-Eccles Stadium.