WASHINGTON — Seven years ago, 18 teams competed in the Arena Football League. Today, you can count them all on one hand.
Ted Leonsis owns half of the teams scheduled to compete in 2018. He has likely already saved the league once, and if it survives, he’ll be the one that led it out of the darkness.
“The Arena Football League is what I call a ‘fallen angel,’” Leonsis wrote on his blog. “It expanded too rapidly to too many uncommitted ownership groups.”
In early 2016, Leonsis, who also owns the Washington Capitals, Wizards and Capital One Arena, unveiled his DC AFL team to open play in 2017.