If you actually watched the AAF you would know that it had many rules that set it apart from the NFL.

There were no kickoffs and instead you got the ball on the 25, instead of onside kicks you went for it on a 4th and 12 from your own 28, the play clock was 10 seconds shorter, there were no extra points and instead you had to go for two, they aired what was said between the refs and review booth during the reviews, in OT both teams got 1 set of downs from the 10 yard line, and there was an extra official that used the sky cam to watch the field.

Also, as some in this thread suggested, they were actively negotiating with the NFL to have the ability to use practice squad players.

The only reason it fell apart was they chose the wrong financial backers. The original one Reggie Fowler was into crypto currency and was arrested for fraud and had his assents frozen while the second one Thomas Dundon is a vulture capitalist who pulled his money out when he realized he wasn't going to get to own a gambling app that he league had developed and also threw a hissy fit when b/c he idiotically thought the TV rights would make a startup league profitable in year 2.

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Posted by G The Tiger Fan

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Posted on 2/9/20 at 4:09 pm to Dr RC

I remember you watched every AAF game. I watched a number of them. The league wasn't bad and was different from the NFL. I'm not sure why it's remembered as being terrible football on this board.

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Posted on 2/9/20 at 4:16 pm to G The Tiger Fan

I guess b/c they didn't watch it?

It's weird how so many act like it was total trash that completely failed. The ratings were more than double what they initially projected to the point that Turner started pulling the games off of their (kinda shitty) BR Live app to air on TNT and CBS was starting to pull games off of CBSSN to air on CBS. Teams like Orlando, San Antonio, Birmingham and Arizona were fun to watch. Even crappy ones like Memphis and Atlanta had some value b/c the league made all the rosters regional so you'd at least get to see a bunch of old SEC and ACC dudes going up against each other.

Really their biggest mistake was rushing to debut before the XFL. Had they slowed things down and taken another year to plan everything out they probably would have had a much better financial backer who was willing to let the product build itself up and right now we'd be having threads talking abotu which league was better and how cool it would be if their champs would eventually play each other.

We'll always have Shaan Washington killing Mike Bercovici's soul though.

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Posted on 2/9/20 at 4:28 pm to Dr RC

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Even crappy ones like Memphis and Atlanta had some value b/c the league made all the rosters regional so you'd at least get to see a bunch of old SEC and ACC dudes going up against each other.

This is the one thing I wish the XFL had done. I like what I see so far from the league but, as a guy who lives in South Mississippi, I'm having a hard time finding a favorite team.

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