Jason Munz | Memphis Commercial Appeal
Bill Polian’s vision for the Alliance of American Football, from the very beginning, has been crystal clear.
The upstart league, which is halfway through its 10-game regular season that began the week after the Super Bowl, wants nothing to do with competing against the mighty NFL. Rather, the AAF’s goal is to act in concert with professional football’s big league in hopes of becoming a proving ground for those in search of another shot (think Trent Richardson, Rashad Ross and Zach Mettenberger) and a training ground for the not-quite-ready-for-primetime fringe players (recent examples being Danny Etling, J.T. Barrett and Bo Scarbrough).
Five games in and less than a week from the one-year anniversary of AAF’s inception, the league is well on its way, by many accounts, to becoming a proving ground. But Polian — the co-founder and head of football — said there’s still a long way to go before the AAF achieves farm-system status.
“I think there’s been enough discussion about it that those discussions are going to continue,” he said. “The talk is ramping up — I’ll say that. But there are a lot of procedural hurdles that have to be crossed before you can make that happen.”
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