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New pro football league wants team in Tennessee
The City Paper - NashvilleCityPaper.com
By Terry McCormick
A new pro football league is ready to give it the old college try starting next spring.
The All-American Pro Football League had open tryouts in Orlando, Fla., on Monday with more scheduled for today, hoping to create a niche for itself with football in the spring.
Other spring/summer football leagues have come and gone, ranging from the WFL, USFL, XFL and just last week NFL Europa went out of business. But the new AAFL is attempting to gain a fan base by aiming its appeal toward rabid college football fans.
The league already has many former college officials on board, including former NCAA president Cedric Dempsey, former Notre Dame athletics director and ex-ACC commissioner Gene Corrigan and retired University of Tennessee athletics director Doug Dickey. University of Georgia alumnus and businessman Marcus Katz is helping to bankroll the venture, which has spent three years on the drawing board.
This league is not the same as the proposed UFL that involves Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and plans to play on weeknights in the fall.
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