Charlie Ebersol, the son of longtime NBC Sports executive Dick Ebersol and director of the 30 for 30 documentary
about the original XFL his father created with WWE’s Vince McMahon,
announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a football league next
February.
The league is called the Alliance of American
Football and will feature eight 50-man teams playing a 10-game schedule
that begins on February 9, the Saturday after next year’s Super Bowl.
The league is hoping to draw talent from the wealth of high-level college players who don’t make the NFL.
It promises a new kind of broadcast, wrapping up games in two-and-a-half hours and without TV timeouts.
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