The Alliance of American Football will debut six days after the Super Bowl but attempts to fill the off-season have struggled in the past
Nearly 300 athletes had travelled to a gym near Houston, and you could see the desire in their sweat-stained faces, as well as from the number of out-of-state license plates in the parking lot.
Each of the hopefuls paid a fee of $175 to attend a one-day open tryout for the latest attempt to launch a professional American football league. The NFL may have been wounded by political divisions, concussions and cord-cutters but it remains the world’s richest sports league. And one of the briefest, with a quality-not-quantity recipe that means there are only 150 days between the kick-off of the 2018 season in Philadelphia on 6 September and Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta on 3 February.
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