In life there will always be scenarios we know should happen but realize they may never come to fruition. There is one of these very scenarios playing out in real time right before the eyes of arena football fans. The Arena Football One, and National Arena League have stood as separate entities, but the question is should they?
Both leagues have watched as teams have fallen by the wayside, only to open questions about the league as a whole and their vetting processes along the way. Many of these teams were once playing partners in various leagues before forming the current arrangements in the AF1 and NAL. Watching both leagues struggle through tough situations since the demise of the Champions Indoor Football League.
The subsequent revival of the Arena Football League, and realignment of the National Arena League, makes it more and more clear how both leagues could benefit from a full on merger of the two organizations. Without completely rehashing the 2024 season we will look at the leagues as they have evolved leading up to the 2025 season.
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National Arena League (NAL)
Heading into the 2025 season, the National Arena League had announced a league that was formed by the absorption of the American Indoor Football League. The AIF was a league that was brought back for just one season in 2024. By the end of the 2024 season the league consisted of just a handful of teams that the NAL deemed as worthy of partnering with in 2025.
These teams included the Amarillo Venom/Dusters, Corpus Christi Tritons, Harrisburg Stampede, Columbus Lions, and the Beaumont Renegades although they were originally set to join the AIF in 2025. They however did not stop there, adding the Wheeling Miners from the American Arena League 2, as well as an expansion team, the Shreveport Rouxgaroux. These seven teams joined the five remaining teams of the 2024 version of the NAL.
These teams included the Omaha Beef, Sioux City Bandits, Colorado Spartans, Carolina Cobras, and Idaho Horsemen. With the Spartans the only team that had been a 2024 expansion team, this group of five formed a very promising foundation to build on heading into 2025 which included some of the most established, and respected indoor football teams regardless of league.
Looking at Each Team and Their Background
The Omaha Beef, and Sioux City Bandits both previously played in the CIF a league that had been at the heart of the formation of the “New” NAL, and the AFL in 2024. Two of the longest running indoor football teams in any league currently still in existence, formed a power duo of teams that had both formed back in 2000. These two teams have played under no less than 8 different league banners in the 25 years since their first season.
These two teams have played against each other for decades now and created a series fans have dubbed the I-29 Rivalry as both teams exist near the large interstate that cuts through the Midwest. With two of the strongest ownership groups in Indoor Football, any league with these two teams involved immediately garners legitimacy and respect from two football crazed fan bases. It could be argued that the “Slaughterhouse” offers one of the most dedicated fan bases of any indoor football teams in any league.
The Carolina Cobras were the only team that remained in the NAL after what amounted to a realignment season similar to what we saw in college football. While the Cobras name existed from 2000-2004, the version in the NAL is more like a distant cousin than it is a revival of the original team. Born in 2018, they have played every one of their seasons in the NAL. While there have been bumps in the road, they have persevered through some tough times and continue to be one of the more respected indoor football franchises in any league to this day.
The Idaho Horsemen were once formed with a plan of joining the Indoor Football League, or Champions Indoor Football League, but travel constraints made it prohibitive for the team to join either league at the time. This led Chris Reynolds the owner of the Horsemen to launch his own league; American West Football Conference. In what looked and felt like a league built to simply join another league as a stand alone division, this never came to fruition with the AWFC as it stood.
Playing in the league that fluctuated often for three seasons in four years, the Idaho Horsemen won the AWFC Championship in 2023, and departed for the National Arena League in 2024. Heading into the 2025 season this meant that the NAL was a league of champions. The Idaho Horsemen, Wheeling Miners, Omaha Beef, and Columbus Lions had all won a championship in their previous league before joining the NAL, and the Beef had continued that in 2024 winning the NAL Championship as well.
Colorado was an expansion team owned by a former player who had once played in the Champions Indoor Football League with the Rapid City Marshals. Transitioning to ownership heading into 2024, Tony Thompson opted to move to Northern Colorado and form a team in a state that had watched indoor football leave them after the 2017 IFL season. With a solid market, and an arena that worked well for indoor football the Spartans had a respectable first season in the NAL. They now look to continue the growth of their audience with a move to the larger, and more centralized Denver Coliseum.
New Faces in the NAL for 2025
Heading into the 2025 season, as mentioned above, the NAL gained some more teams from other leagues. One of which many fans believe will eventually grow a legacy similar to that of the Beef, Bandits, and Cobras over the long term. That is the Wheeling Miners, formed by Chris Duffy as the majority owner, and a group of several minority owners this team also has years of experience running indoor football teams.
With an experienced Head Coach/General Manager at the helm in Joshua Resignaldo, the Miners won the American Arena League 2 Championship in 2024. Wanting to start in a smaller, and cheaper league in their first season as a sort of “test” season to wet the appetite of fans in West Virginia, the Miners went from expansion team to champion in just a single season, and did so in front of 3,000+ fans. They decided to take their talents to a league Duffy and Resignaldo know well in the NAL given their previous exploits in years past, and now look to chase an NAL Championship in 2025.
AIF and NAL Merge
The American Indoor Football League is a league name that has come and gone several times over the years. It was reformed in 2024 with many teams being newly reformed expansion teams with ownership groups who had been around indoor football in the past. This included the Cedar Rapids River Kings, River City Rage, Corpus Christi Tritons, Amarillo Venom, Harrisburg Stampede, Columbus Lions, Albany River Gators, and the Beaumont Renegades.
Ultimately before they ever played a game the Renegades were announced as pushing back their initial season to ensure they had everything in place to play in 2025. Soon after the Albany River Gators would have their own issues, and the River City Rage team was sold and joined the AFL. The league continued with the River Kings, Lions, Tritons, Venom, and Stampede. By the end of the season the River Kings had also mutually parted ways with the AIF and played an independent schedule to finish out the season.
After their 2024 season it was announced that the AIF would be merging with the NAL, and the Tritons, Stampede, and Lions would highlight the teams making the move. Later on the Venom rebranded to the Dusters and followed their former playing partners to the NAL as well. The Renegades would be the last “former AIF” team to join the NAL for the 2025 season.
Looking at the AIF Teams Joining the NAL
The Columbus Lions found themselves back in the NAL after initially leaving the league following the 2022 season. Playing their 2023 season in the American Indoor Football Association where they won the Championship. In 2024 they joined the upstart AIF and won another Championship continuing a run of dominance that had seen them make the playoffs in every season but one since their inception in 2007. The Lions had played in the NAL from 2017-2022 before their departure, so a return was not the largest surprise of the 2024 offseason.
They are another very stable franchise that has now outlasted multiple leagues in an effort to continue playing football in Columbus. This includes the World Indoor Football League, the original iteration of the American Indoor Football Association, Southern Indoor Football League, Professional Indoor Football League, the second iterations of the American Indoor Football League, and the American Indoor Football Alliance.
Their most stable run in any league was the National Arena League where they lasted for five seasons in six years before bouncing around in other leagues for two seasons. Their Head Coach is an indoor football legend in his own right having once played for the Lions. A man who once won Defensive Player of the Year for the Lions in four seasons straight, now roams the sidelines rather than roaming the secondary.
Columbus features an experienced and stable ownership group which has allowed them to weather many storms over the years and stay standing along the way. The National Arena League is certainly happy to have them back in the fold as this gives more of an eastern presence for the league, allowing for more manageable travel for the Carolina Cobras which were previously on an island as the only east coast team in 2024.
Beaumont Renegades
The Beaumont Renegades are a brand new team, formed over the last two seasons by a pair of player agents Griff Carl and Sam Gordon, this team later welcomed former NFL Player Deatrich Wise into the fold as an owner as well. While they are a new team, they have already faced tragedy, as a man who was intended to coach for them in 2025, Jacoby Jones a former Super Bowl winning receiver and return man passed away at just 40 years old.
Jones had initially been hired as the Offensive Coordinator, but it was later announced he would serve as the Head Coach. Jones had actually experienced arena football first hand as a player in 2017 with the Monterrey Steel before retiring from the game and getting into coaching. Having overseen wide receivers, and tight ends at the high school or college level from 2018-2023 before accepting a role with Beaumont. Losing Jones was no small hit to the Renegades.
The Renegades would then hire Corey Mayfield as their new Head Coach. Mayfield played in the NFL from 1992-1997 after being drafted in the 10th round by the 49ers. He would later jump into arena football with the Grand Rapids Rampage in 1999 where he stayed until 2003, outside of a short hiatus with the 2001 version of the XFL’s Orlando Rage. He finished his career with the AFL’s Dallas Desperados. He later joined the coaching ranks and ended up coaching with multiple different franchises in Texas before finding his way to the Renegades in 2025.
Assisting him with the franchise is also current CFL Defensive Lineman Shawn Oakman. Oakman has also played arena football during his career, and is a shining example of what playing indoors can do for players. His role as Assistant General Manager will not prevent him from playing in the CFL, and instead will give the Renegades direct and immediate ties to the CFL.
Harrisburg Stampede, Corpus Christi Tritons, and Amarillo Dusters
These additions to the league have not all worked out as the NAL had initially hoped. The Harrisburg Stampede faced with much higher operating costs than they previously thought had opted to shut down the team and sell off their assets. Check out the interview with former Owner Jay Coble to hear him elaborate on what led to this decision.
The Corpus Christi Tritons were removed from the 2025 NAL schedule, but they instead opted to try and find a way to keep playing. This ended with them joining the 2025 version of the AF1, a move that has left some with questions as to how this all will work. It also has opened them up to potential legal action by the NAL, much like the West Texas Warbirds/Desert Hawks that were hit with a lawsuit during the 2024 AFL season.
It remains to be seen how this situation plays out for all parties involved. The NAL contends that the Tritons were never removed from the league, only the schedule meaning they are still obligated to uphold their end of their League Affiliation Agreement each team signs. This could amount to a monetary settlement, or the Tritons being forced to remove themselves from play, although the AF1 has multiple lawyers involved in the league and have said they do not intend to roll over in court. Let’s hope all parties can find an amicable way of resolving this situation so it doesn’t leave players and coaches high and dry on yet another team this offseason.
The Amarillo Dusters joined the NAL under less than ideal circumstances with accusations of unpaid salaries to members of the Venom. A rebrand essentially killed the noise from former Venom employees realizing this was essentially a way for the ownership group to wipe the slate clean and move forward with a “new” team that had no real ties to the Venom any longer. The Dusters however were behind the 8 Ball with no capital left from the 2024 season, and needing to get out in front of this situation immediately.
It looked as though they were making progress for a while during the 2025 offseason, and they actually went as far as signing only local players, or those okay with housing themselves for the season. This removed a large portion of the cost for the team by not providing housing for players. This however would not save them as they ultimately would be removed from the schedule and see their membership terminated.
They say the strongest survive, and this has left the NAL with a group of teams that look strong from an outside perspective. This includes the five from last season: Omaha, Sioux City, Carolina, Idaho, and Colorado, as well as returning member Columbus, and the newcomers Wheeling and Beaumont. Not a bad foundation for the league and it’s teams.
Arena Football One (AF1)
As mentioned before the Arena Football One was formed from the remaining teams that made it through the disaster that was the AFL’s initial season back. Misled by terrible leadership, and bad investment groups that held the rights of the AFL’s name, the team owners and the leadership group they had formed midseason to keep the ship afloat in 2024 felt it was best to put the AFL in the past and form their own league.
The Arena Football One (AF1) was formed with 9 teams left from the 2024 season. Former NAL ownership groups with the Albany Firebirds, and Orlando Predators. Former CIF members the Billings Outlaws, Salina Liberty, Southwest Kansas Storm, and Wichita Regulators. They also had two 2024 expansion franchises make it through in the Washington Wolfpack, and Nashville Kats.
2025 Expansion has seen it’s Stumbles for the AF1
Heading into the 2025 season the AF1 announced a return to Oregon, revisited the Arizona franchise that had tried to join the AFL in 2024, added Corpus Christi, and announced expansion franchises in Stockton California, and Monterrey Mexico. This poised them to be the first arena league with a team outside the United States since the NAL did it back in 2017 with the aforementioned Steel.
However the expansion process has not gone as planned. Monterrey and Stockton were both forced to put off their inaugural seasons until 2026 due to concerns with an arena lease and finances respectively. Wichita has now had to go dormant until the 2026 season due to financial concerns revolving around some potential investors leaving the Regulators at the altar. The most recent issue was with the Wilkes-Barre Mavericks, who were forced to back out from the 2025 season due to financial concerns just days before they were set to report to training camp.
This has left the AF1 with ten teams heading into the 2025 season. However if you ask fans around social media, there are still some concerns with franchises new and established. Including the lack of an arena announcement for Arizona, and a coach announcement for Nashville, albeit rumors have spread that the staff in place by Nashville is very experienced and could be, on paper, one of the best in any league.
Question marks this late in the game are always concerning, we are less than a month before kickoff of the 2025 season, and both leagues are still hitting speed bumps in the road. Arena football fans will always attempt to act as if the process of running a league, but the reality is there are only so many prospective ownership groups willing to take on the task of running an indoor or arena football team. Many of which understand it is not always a profitable situation and often times takes a year round presence to make a 4 month long season work well. That is a lot for anyone to take on, especially when even when you do everything right, you may still be forced to operate in the red.
Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave
The more I follow these arena/indoor football leagues, the more I realize how small this world can be. The ownership group that wanted to launch in Monterrey had previously been in the NAL with the Steel, much of the group running the Stockton team previously were involved in the IFL’s Bay Area Panthers. Oregon’s Head Coach Chuck Jones once worked for Chris Reynolds as a player and coach with the Oregon High Desert Storm, and has assisted him in getting two teams off of the ground in Oregon since 2023.
Corpus Christi was in the AIF, joined the NAL, and now is in the AF1 and facing a lawsuit due to that move. The Wichita Regulators had Mike McCoy involved when they moved to the CIF, and later followed the remainder of the CIF to the AFL in 2024. He is now involved with the 2025 version of the AIF.
Omaha, and Sioux City were members of the CIF prior to the massive realignment in 2024. Orlando, and Albany’s owners were once a part of the NAL playing against the Cobras for many years. Keith Russ and company with Shreveport once owned the Billings Outlaws, Gillette Mustangs, and Rapid City Marshals before selling to Steven Titus, and the Johnson’s.
I say all this to say, that while these people have all known each other for years, not all these relationships are good ones, and some may even stand in the way of what could be a dream scenario for all parties involved.
NAL & AF1 Merger Makes Sense on the Surface
It would obviously be nearly impossible for these two leagues to merge this late in the 2025 season. This would be a proposition that would likely be more in line with a project that would take a year worth of work to button up many of the questions that would be involved with this pursuit.
The first of which would be the hurdles in personal relationships between owners that would have to be cleared. Namely the not so peachy ending to the sale of the Billings Outlaws by Keith Russ to Steven Titus. If you ask current members of the Outlaws Organization they would tell you many promises were left unkept by Russ, and that they have pursued him for years to try and clear up these issues.
Perhaps there is a way that Russ could right previous wrongs, without going bankrupt in the process, and also keep his new team the Shreveport Rouxgaroux afloat in the process. There is reportedly a rather large financial difference between these two parties stemming from that sale years ago. What if the two parties negotiated a scenario where Russ would pay out a portion of the Outlaws’ league costs each season to pay back this disagreement over time and mend a previously broken beyond repair relationship, allowing the parties to co-exist within the same league together?
Now I will not sit here and speculate what that agreement would need to look like for the two parties to stomach working together in 2026 and into the foreseeable future, but this is just a suggestion from an outside party that could end with an amicable solution and dissolve a long standing issue between the two parties.
Corpus Christi
Obviously there is the issue of the Tritons abandoning their obligations to the NAL, well this too could be resolved fairly easily if the two entities were to become one. While they have ruffled feathers in the NAL with their actions, if the NAL and AF1 merge, and they had fulfilled their obligations with entrance fees, and all other necessary items before the start of the season, that bad blood should go away rather quickly…IF they uphold their end of the bargain throughout.
At the end of the day, most owners are simply worried about the league their team plays in having stability. Stability typically comes from established teams that understand what it takes to run an indoor football team. Corpus Christi made it through the 2024 season with the AIF, and in this hypothetical scenario they would have made it through the 2025 season with the AF1 as well.
Former Playing Partners Coming Back Together
The positive side of this move would be that Omaha, Sioux City, Billings, Salina, and Southwest Kansas would again be in the same league and playing each other once again just two seasons removed from the CIF dissolving into thin air. Perhaps Wichita comes back and all of a sudden you have 6 teams that had played or were set to play in the CIF in 2024 before they all left for other leagues.
The staffs of the Oregon Lightning and Idaho Horsemen would be reunited after working together for years in the AWFC. This would bring back another regional rivalry that would not hurt the fan aspect of things. It also would make travel much more manageable for Idaho, as they would then have teams in Washington, Oregon, and Montana to play.
There would also be the three former NAL ownership groups coming back together. The Albany Firebirds, Orlando Predators, and Carolina Cobras could also re-open old rivalries, and make for a rather robust eastern presence with teams like Wheeling, and Nashville also involved.
Regional Division Breakdown
There is no easy way to break down a 19 team league, however there are a few ways to skin this cat. The most likely move here would be for the league to gain more teams and split the divisions evenly. Whether it is 1, 2, or 3 teams there are ways to work around every combination of teams to make it work for all parties involved.
19 Team League
In the event that the league keeps only the 19 teams set to play in 2025, the divisions could be broken down into three five-team divisions, and one four-team division.
In this scenario, you could break it up a few different ways, but the most likely way in my opinion would be to split into these divisions:
West:
Washington Wolfpack
Oregon Lightning
Idaho Horsemen
Colorado Spartans
Billings Outlaws
South:
Arizona Bandits
Corpus Christi Tritons
Beaumont Renegades
Shreveport Rouxgaroux
Central:
Omaha Beef
Sioux City Bandits
Salina Liberty
Southwest Kansas Storm
Nashville Kats
East:
Albany Firebirds
Wheeling Miners
Carolina Cobras
Orlando Predators
Columbus Lions
This arrangement is not the most ideal as some of these teams are still fairly distant from their division mates, but regionally they are about as close as they get in this 19 team scenario.
22 Team League, 3 Expansion Teams Join
Assuming the best case scenario happens, and all 19 teams make it through 2025 and then the three expansion teams also rejoin the group in 2026, suddenly the division setup becomes more clean. Two five team divisions, and two six team divisions. In this arrangement you would have the West, Central, South, and East divisions.
West:
Washington Wolfpack
Oregon Lightning
Billings Outlaws
Stockon Crusaders
Idaho Horsemen
In the west you keep the rivalry between Oregon and Washington. Billings and a developing rivalry with Washington. You also get the one-time rivalry between Idaho and Oregon renewed.
Central:
Omaha Beef
Sioux City Bandits
Southwest Kansas Storm
Salina Liberty
Wichita Regulators
Colorado Spartans
In the central division you have three Kansas teams fighting for supremacy. You also have the I-29 rivalry continuing moving forward. This also brings five former CIF teams back together all of which have played each other in the past. You add Colorado and help them grow their footprint in the middle of the country by allowing them to play teams that are fairly close by. This could make for the most cohesive division of the four different divisions.
South:
Arizona Bandits
Monterrey Kings
Corpus Christi Tritons
Beaumont Renegades
Shreveport Rouxgaroux
In the south, you will have a battle of two Texas teams. Beaumont and Corpus Christi, You also have a regional rivalry with Shreveport and these two teams all being fairly close together in this scheme. Arizona and Monterrey are kind of the outliers in this division.
East:
Albany Firebirds
Wheeling Miners
Nashville Kats
Carolina Cobras
Columbus Lions
Orlando Predators
In the east you get all four of the former early NAL ownership groups together. Albany, Carolina, Columbus and Orlando. You also now throw Nashville and Wheeling into the group which makes for a very interesting division.
This is arguably a much more clean setup divisionally and regionally when looking at travel. Outside of the central division, there really is no large advantage to be in any certain division. The west division is still fairly spread out, the south division, and east divisions are also fairly spread out as well. This also breaks up very cleanly, and allows for every division to develop an identity and rivalries that make sense.
No matter which way you slice these teams, scheduling would be interesting, but with more teams, there are creative ways to rotate bye weeks, and design a regionally motivated schedule that would allow these teams to thrive even more than in years past due to the money saved on travel.
League Structure
Both the AF1 and NAL bring a lot of experience to the table in their respective front offices. In the Arena Football One, you have Commissioner Jeff Fisher, CEO Jerry Kurz, Director of Football Operations Gary Compton, President of League and Team Operations Christie McEwen, Director of Team Operations Trey Medlock, and Director of Communications Adam Pelletier. Arguments could be made for everyone of these people to keep their roles, but with a merger of this magnitude restructuing should be expected, and honestly more hands on deck if they can work together amicably is not a bad thing.
The NAL brings Commissioner Brandon Ikard, Director of Officials Craig Helser, Director of Compliance Tony Thompson (also owner of the Spartans), as well as Director of Media Steven Shotola. Realistically with more defined roles, there is no reason both staffs could not work together to create an even better front office especially with so many more teams to oversee in this hypothetical situation.
Allowing Commissioner Jeff Fisher to be the face of the league, while leaning on the experience of Brandon Ikard from his time in the AIF, and now NAL would create a scenario where the leadership from the top down may feel like it is more hands on. Ikard could take on a title of Deputy Commissioner or perhaps even Co-Commissioner.
Jerry Kurz has so much experience with leagues like the original iteration of the AFL, as well as the AF2, and even the FCF it was his connections that buoyed the AFL in 2024 and helped them get their games on CBS Sports for the playoffs on short notice. His connections to various entities over the years will only continue to help grow this new super league and allow it to be sustainable long term as they bring on national sponsors or investors.
Gary Compton would remain in his role as Director of Football Operations and do so with more oversight from other members of the league to assist when important matters hit any sort of roadblocks along the way. Compton seems to be a well-liked individual who has the respect of coaches, and team owners alike across multiple leagues due to his background as a former player, and coach.
Christie McEwan could retain her role and continue to serve in this capacity moving forward with a group of people helping her oversee the day-to-day operations by compartmentalizing tasks to an extent.
Keeping Tony Thompson in his role as the Director of Compliance would still make sense especially if he was working hand-in-hand with Trey Medlock who could focus more on things outside of the compliance realm and really hone in on issures that aren’t related to that facet of team operations. Both men would serve in conjunction with McEwan in her role as President of the League.
Finally in the media department you would have two heavy-hitters in the arena football world joining forces to form what would essentially be one of the most well organized and respected league media groups in any league outside of the NFL. Steven Shotola has years of experience to lend to this new partnership, while Adam Pelletier brings a new and refreshing view on how a league media department should be run. These two men are both easy to get along with, and great to deal with and I believe together they would take this newly formed league from on the map, to a rivaling bigger outdoor leagues in their professionalism and approach.
In this scenario this new league takes a divide and conquer approach allowing the members of both front offices to come in and take on more direct responsibilites, which would be necessary given the fact that over night they essentially doubled in size. While a merger of this sort would not automatically make it the premier arena or indoor football league, it would go a long way toward streamlining the market, and bringing together two separate fan bases that otherwise would not have been fans of the other league. It would also give this league a more national footprint and really eliminate a lot of holes without teams on the map.
Super League Brings Multiple Things to the Table for Fans
Recent announcements by the AF1 and NAL have made a potential merger even more interesting. As of late the Arena Football One has announced their games will be broadcast with Vice TV, and Evergreen Now.
Vice TV could carry all the Sunday night games as designed in their original agreement with the AF1, and in turn actually add more broadcasts throughout each season. Some of which may even carry more weight due to previously built rivalries over the years. Allowing Vice TV to continue broadcasting Sunday Night games, would also open the door for a more wide reaching broadcast partnership package that would loop in the other partners Evergreen NOW, and Right Now TV. Allowing the three platforms to co-exist and giving this new league a wider reach than any other indoor or arena football league has had for many years, since the hey day of the 50-yard fight.
Evergreen Now would not only allow for the league to continue growing it’s audience, it would continue to provide a growing streaming platform and the potential to more easily monetize the games on this platform an issue that has long since held some of these leagues back that relied on YouTube to broadcast games. Despite 1000’s of views, these games were often hit with trademark claims due to music that was heard in the background of the broadcast, and at times these games were even removed from the platform temporarily as leagues were forced to file appeals to get their content back. This has at time prevented games from getting the views they normally would.
https://twitter.com/af1football/status/1896326290057347227
While the National Arena League has announced Right Now TV as it’s broadcast partner. Right Now TV could still continue to broadcast a good chunk of the playoff games for the league, as well as many of the regular season games as their initial partnership with the NAL would allow. Perhaps it’s as simple as splitting the playoff broadcasts down the middle allowing both Vice TV, and Right Now TV to lend their audiences to this new Super League.
https://www.nationalarenaleague.com/news/nal-partners-with-right-now-tv
On top of this the fantasy football crowd will be thrilled to hear that the AF1 has AltFantasySports.com on it’s side to provide fantasy arena football to the masses. Bringing fantasy football along with the AF1 to this new league would only benefit all teams involved and draw in casual fans who may not have a team in the league they root for, and allow them a reason to follow games from across the nation, much like the NFL has done for years with it’s many fantasy football outlets. In a high-scoring and action-packed game, the fantasy football crowd would certainly find it’s own version of entertainment in this larger more nation-wide league.
As if all of this information was not enough, the AF1 has also announced a partnership with BettorEdge. Bringing to the table fantasy football, and sports betting, the AF1 is certainly doing it’s part in this hypothetical partnership to bring together two of the largest arena/indoor football leagues in the country. With sports betting, fantasy football, and multiple broadcast partners on board, not only would it benefit the teams, and assist with sponsorship sales on an indvidual level, but it would draw more eyes than ever before.
This would also allow for the league itself to bring in national sponsors and partners to further reduce cost, and/or create a plan to share revenue, or reduce the league operation costs aborbed by team owners. A win-win scenario for all parties involved both teams and sponsors alike.
With all of this brought to one super league, the new league would be a powerhouse among the indoor and arena football world. The biggest questions would be the ruleset and how the two leagues would come together to choose the best and most exciting rules to bring to this new super league. It would also likely be one of the most highly anticipated mergers in the history of the arena football world in 2025.
What would you think if these two leagues come together and how would you arrange these teams divisionally?
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