Once again, a "startup" professional football league hits the sports world.  This time, however, there's very little fanfare, and almost no publicity.  You have to look pretty long and hard to get any information regarding this little league.  It does have, however, a television contract with the cable channel Versus, and some ideas that may allow it to be a successful league.  The league's entire premise is an interesting one - essentially it will be a "minor league" football league.  That by itself may make allow it to succeed where other leagues have failed miserably.

The only league that successfully challenged the NFL was the AFL.  But, drawing parallels between that war won't work here.  The AFL was an 8-team league starting in major cities, and