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Detroit In The News

August 17, 2007

Arena football headed to Ford Field

The All American Football League, set to begin play in April 2008, will likely have its Michigan franchise at Detroit's Ford Field.

Excerpt:

The for-profit professional league, whose players must have earned their undergraduate degree, insists it will not be a minor league and will not compete with the NFL.

"We will market ourselves as a professional football league," said Keenan Davis, the AAFL’s vice president of football operations and business development.

Ticket prices are expected to begin at $10. Each team will have a 42-man roster, a four-man practice squad, use college rules and play most games on Saturdays.

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