The first games of the Alliance of American Football (AAF) are this weekend. I haven't followed it and at this point I'm not that interested. However, a friend called me all excited. He said CBS will be carrying all the games... that seems interesting. I seen an NFL Network logo on the AAF website... that seems interesting.
What's your take? Is your DVR set? Why should I care?
Originally Posted by Dayze: I watched most of the second half. I really liked it.
Shit canning kickoffs and pointless extra points after tds is awesome.
Also nice watching a game and not getting that feeling the game is about to turn in favor of a certain team via bullshit penalties.
I watched the Orlando game, Shit was really fun, Nice Flow, not a shit ton of budlight commercials every other play. Some pretty exciting stuff too as they ran a philly special for a TD and Spurrier micd up was awesome, All in all Im on board [Reply]
My overall take: I probably won't go out of my way to watch it, but if I'm sitting around without much else going on, I'll plan to turn on whatever games they have. It's a relatively polished product and was reasonably entertaining. The entertainment value would escalate a lot after this year if a few players manage to get on an NFL team and make a difference, which would go a long way toward legitimizing the AAF.
If nothing else, I love it as a testing ground for new rules and procedures. While the XFL will take that to the extreme, the AAF seems to have implemented rules that could reasonably be adopted by the NFL without causing too much angst. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
To be fair, his helmet must have been on super loose or something, because he got him pretty square in the chest from what I could tell.
But yeah, that would have been an instant PI in the NFL.
Did they have any type of preseason? Looked like two teams that haven’t quite gelled yet..this league will get better as that happens. Nice to see some defense and big hits that aren’t flagged [Reply]