The Alliance of American Football, let’s just say, did not exactly work out as Charlie Ebersol and Bill Polian had planned. A lot of that had to do with the inability to acquire stable sources of capital at the appropriate times to keep the whole thing running, but it has become readily apparent that many other things went wrong—or more accurately, were done wrong—as well.
As a quick recap, the league’s primary investor heading into its inaugural season was a man by the name of Reggie Fowler, who once played in the USFL and later as a businessman spent nearly a decade as a minority owner of the Minnesota Vikings.