anyone hear about this or is anyone keeping updated on it?i only see 6 teams right now and the Arkansas team only has 5 or 6 players but it's supposed to start next year.i'm just trying to get an understanding of it and how is it going to work?anyone else know anything about it?

yea its for the states that wont bring in the money like the NFL does.

USFL...CFL...Arena Football...they all need stadiums, TV time. sponsors, advertisers on the tube, etc.

It will be an uphill battle to put together.

The College drafts are clearly the NFLs.

Except for the uniqueness of Arena Football, do you think it can succeed?

I don't JMO

wouldee,i dunno if it will or not.all the players i see are the ones that couldn't make it in the NFL and a few of them seem too old to be playing football .i think it is more of a Minor League thing but i did see Tim Crouch has signed with one of the teams.

They're going to load up each team with players that used to play for colleges nearby, but aren't playing in the NFL. There's going to be a Knoxville team, and they'll mainly be using former UT, Carson-Newman, UT-Chattanooga, Maryville College and other area colleges. To play, you have to have no college eligibility remaining. I think it's got a shot, unless they try to make an enemy out of the NFL. We all know how successful the last group(XFL)who pissed off the NFL was.

I think the XFL was more a gimmick thing .... pro wrestling type marketing meets football.

I think to make it work they need to go back to the way the superbowl first started.the first Superbowl was the best AFL team against the best NFL team.of course the AFL team (Jets)kicked the NFL team's @$$ (can't remember which NFL team it was,just remember the Jets being AFL and being in the first Superbowl).the NFL got pissed and decided to combine the NFL with AFL.i think if the AAFL works out,they should do that in a few years or so .JMO

Jt.. the Packers won the first two superbowls....the Jets won the third beating the Colts.

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Well hey Rebecca! Welcome!

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I could have swore the Jets were in the first superbowl?



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nevermind Hanged,you were right.i just googled it



The Super Bowl was created as part of the merger agreement between the National Football League (NFL) and its competitive rival, the American Football League (AFL). After its inception in 1920, the NFL fended off several rival leagues before the AFL began play in 1960. The intense competitive war for players and fans led to serious merger talks between the two leagues in 1966, culminating in a merger announcement on June 8, 1966.

One of the conditions of the AFL-NFL Merger was that the winners of each league's championship game would meet in a contest to determine the "world champion of football". According to NFL Films President Steve Sabol, then NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle wanted to call the game "The Big One".[2] During the discussions to iron out the details, AFL founder and Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt had jokingly referred to the proposed interleague championship as the "Super Bowl". Hunt thought of the name after seeing his kids playing with a toy called a Super Ball.[3] The ball is now on display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The name was consistent with postseason college football games which had long been known as "bowl games". The "bowl" term originated from the Rose Bowl Game, which was in turn named for the bowl-shaped stadium in which it is played. Hunt only meant his suggested name to be a stopgap until a better one could be found. Nevertheless, the name "Super Bowl" became permanent.

After the NFL's Green Bay Packers convincingly won the first two Super Bowls, some team owners feared for the future of the merger. At the time, many doubted the competitiveness of AFL teams compared with NFL counterparts. That perception all changed with one of the biggest upsets in sports history, the AFL's New York Jets defeat of the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III in Miami. One year later, the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs defeated the NFL Minnesota Vikings 23-7 and won Super Bowl IV in New Orleans, the last World Championship game played between the champions of the two leagues. These first four Super Bowls were actually AFL-NFL World Championships at the time. After the merger, they were redesignated as Super Bowls I through IV.

The game has been played annually on a Sunday as the final game of the playoffs, originally early to mid-January when there was a 14 game schedule, but late January or even the first Sunday in February as the current 16 game schedule dictates. (A 17th bye-week has been added for TV exposure.)

Former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle is often considered the mastermind of both the merger and the Super Bowl. His leadership guided them into the merger agreement and cemented the preeminence of the Super Bowl. The game remains his crowning achievement and was an important factor in him being selected by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century.[citation needed]

The winning team gets the Vince Lombardi Trophy, named for the coach of the Green Bay Packers, who won the first two Super Bowl games and 3 of the 5 preceding NFL championships (1961-62, 1965). Following his death in September 1970, the trophy was then named the Vince Lombardi Trophy, first awarded as such at Super Bowl V in Miami.

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