For years, football fans have been forced to look to other sports to quench their competitive thirst once the Super Bowl was completed. The countdown lasting several months until preseason football felt like a viewing gauntlet to be endured, but this year fans have a very real option—albeit one with very few recognizable players—in the Alliance of American Football.
The AAF, a new eight-team league set up as a spring-scheduled minor league of sorts, gives football fans a couple more months of real football to watch. The eight teams will rotate through 10 weeks of a regular season before culminating in the championship game in late April—the same Saturday as the final rounds of the NFL Draft in 2019.