AAFL On the Outs?

Anybody else get fake e-mails from the league that are made to look like e-mails from "fans" in your area? I've gotten quite a few ...

 

AFL? Fail? Depends on the definition, I suppose.

 

Basically the AAFL needs a TV deal and today (or tomorrow) is the deadline. I guess they were banking on the NFL Network saving them but it doesn't look like it's happening.

I'm not sure how many tickets they sold here in Florida, but I know they had the offer to play the Florida home opener right after the Gator spring game in hopes of keep the spring game crowd and they would take a percentage of concessions in lieu of ticket sales, but they turned it down.

 

Yes, I got a couple of those. It was poorly done.

 

The American League sucks. NL all the way, baby.

 

Yeah. Pitchers should hit for themselves, dammit!

 

PROTIP: If they're putting a team in Birmingham, it's going to fail hard.

 

Didnt get that, but we got emails from a "freelance journalist" who did a piece on the local team.

We also got an email, supposedly from a former QB of the college team asking us to hype and cover the team and call him anytime. The # was correct for the player, but the syntax and style was very similar to the initial email from the "freelance" person.

 

drinking a 40 or running a 40?

 

Well that makes no sense ...

 

There had to be some kind of weird deal that the AAFL was trying to actually affiliate with the universities -- maybe play in their stadiums, maybe appear on regional networks like the Big Ten Network, etc etc. Thus, I suppose, the otherwise completely idiotic, moronic rule that all players in the league must be college graduates, which right off the top eliminates about 60% of your potential player pool (and probably 80% of the guys who are actually any good at playing football).