Let Me Sell You on Why You Should be as Sold as I am on the AAF

As the AAF heads into Week 4, I am 1000% sold on this league. The talent isn’t great, the QB play is meh, but it’s football in the Spring and it’s absolutely awesome. Here are five reasons why you should be as in on this league as I am:

1. AAF QB’s aren’t great, you say? Fear not folks, Johnny Manziel is coming to save the day. He just got cut by the Montreal Alouettes today and if the AAF league office has any brains, they are going to come at Manziel with a huge contract. He’d be the immediate star of the league and would increase the, what has already been surprisingly high, ratings. Imagine the trouble Money Manziel could get into with the nightlife of these low tier markets. Good luck being a Salt Lake City bar trying to serve him a watered down Vodka-Soda.

2. If you’re even half the degenerate that I am, you’ll take any chance you can get to bet on football in March. Stop betting on college basketball with teams that play zone and miss wide open 3-pointers. Stop betting on the NBA (rigged). Spring degeneracy is for March Madness, the Masters, and now the AAF. Hammer the home teams and hammer the unders.

3. The guys in this league are either has-beens or guys finally getting their first crack at professional football. Whichever way you see it, these dudes are out there to prove a point and get the eye of an NFL team. That means balls to the wall on literally every play, hitting the quarterback with as much ferocity as humanly possible, and playing 100mph all the time. Yeah the talent isn’t going to be pretty but anyone who appreciates high-stakes football will love this league. Second-half preseason NFL is always fun to watch practice squad guys try and prove they deserve a spot on the 53-man roster and the AAF is just an extension of that. Also, who doesn’t love watching Trent Richardson try to get his “Hall of Fame” career back on track, the abomination that is Christian Hackenberg, or the nostalgia in watching Mike Bercovicci throw interceptions that brings you back to late Saturday nights where the only thing to do is bet on Arizona State vs. Cal.

4. AAF has rules that the NFL is seriously going to need to consider: No kickoffs, no TV timeouts, and outside organizations handling concussion protocol. This league is never going to be able to come close to the NFL but what they can do is be a guinea pig for various rules to improve the game. Game-speed has skyrocketed and keeps the fans much more engaged, not distracted by long TV timeouts or pointless automatic reviews. The AAF also makes every team go for two after touchdowns so gambling on game totals and spreads is infinitely more interesting. Finally, instead of onside kicks that have a negative chance of ever succeeding, teams can elect to run an onside conversion where teams get the ball at their own 28 and have one play to convert a 4th and 12. Amazing.

5. I cannot stress this enough: Football in seasons where football shouldn’t be happening is the greatest thing in the world. We’re all addicted to football and there’s no denying that fact. Give me a team of senior citizens running a 4-3 against 12 year olds, I do not care. We all need football in our life at all times and it just feels right to be able to look up at a TV at the bar on a Saturday or Sunday and see a game going on.