FOOTBALL RETURNS TO SAN DIEGO

The last football game played in Mission Valley was the Aztecs last November. The last professional game was January 1, 2017 when the Chargers lost to the Chiefs. The Chargers moved to LA signing a 30 year lease in Inglewood. In Feb of 2019 football returns in a different form. Charlie Ebersol is the CEO.

 The Alliance of American football kicks of its inaugural season with 8 teams playing a 10 week season. It's not the NFL and smartly not promoting itself as such. But to discount their success would be a huge error. There are some really smart NFL minded people involved in this project.

The Executives for the new league are Bill Polian, Troy Polamalu, J.K. McKay,  and Jared Allen.

There advisers are Hines Ward, Justin Tuck and Dick Ebersol. Eight teams make up the league. 4 will go to the Playoffs and will wrap up with a Championship- Game around April 26. Normally the weekend of the NFL Draft. Team names will be announced at a later time.

Atlanta will play at Georgia State Stadium capacity 24,333 Head Coach Brad Childress and Offensive Cord Michael Vick. Childress spent decades in the NFL as a coach an assistant and a head coach https://aaf.com/atlantaalliance/

Birmingham will play at Legion Field capacity 71,594 with their Head Coach Tim Lewis https://aaf.com/birmingham/

Memphis will play at the Liberty Bowl capacity 58,207 with their Head Coach Mike Singletary https://aaf.com/memphis/.

Orlando will play at Spectrum Stadium capacity 44,206 with their Head Coach Steve Spurrier  https://aaf.com/orlandopagewithtix/

Phoenix will play at Sun Devil Stadium 57,078 with their Head Coach Rick Neuheisel https://aaf.com/orlandopagewithtix/.

Salt Lake City will play at Rice Eccles Stadium capacity 45,807 with their Head Coach Dennis Erickson https://aaf.com/saltlake/

San Diego will play at SDCCU Stadium capacity 70,561 with their Head Coach Mike Martz, Off Cord Jon Kitna,  Def Cord Larry Marmie, Positional coaches Jackie Slator, Dre Bly, T.J. Houshmandzadel, Larry Mac Duff, Vince Amey, and Matt Kitna. Director of Personel Dave Boller who spent 18 years as a NFL evaluator.

An 8th city will be announced soon.

All teams are owned by the league. All Head coaches must sign a non disclosure agreement. Players make $500,000 and as much as $35,000 through incentives.

 A TV contract was signed with CBS with no TV timeouts and no kickoffs. CBS Sports will air 1 game a week. The league has a mobile app to watch the games and a integrated fantasy league. Team will get the ball at the 25 YD line. The play clock is at 30 seconds. Every team has to go for a 2 point conversion, there are no field goals. Each coach gets 2 replay reviews. There are 50 players on each roster.

The prospects are the 28,000 division 1 players in college that were not one of the 1700 recruited by the NFL. Season tickets can be deposited with only $50.00 and side line single game tickets is priced around $35.00.


This as the XFL kicks off in 2020. The NFL is inevitably going to have a work stoppage in prior to the 2021 season when the new CBA is expired. The Players Union has prepared for a long work stoppage taking out loans in the millions to get players prepared. The NFL is rumored to want a team in London by 2022 which could lead to more teams relocating from their home cities. This coupled with a fantastic business model put together by Charlie Ebersol could lead the American Alliance Football league to success like we've never seen before.