OT: A11 pro football league announced.

Submitted by Oaktown Wolverine on

It looks like a new football league is set to take over for defunct UFL, and will feature different offensive rules from the NFL.

The A11FL will play its first full season in the spring of 2015 and have eight teams, including the San Francisco Bay Area Sea Lions. ESPN will serve as the broadcast partner for the two showcase games -- May 17 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., and June 5 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas -- and will broadcast games weekly during the inaugural season in 2015.

Here is a little about the offensive rules.
 

The league will allow, but not require, use of the A11 offense that Bryan and Humphries co-created in 2007 when Bryan was the head coach and Humphries was the offensive coordinator at Piedmont High.

The offense utilizes two quarterbacks in a scrimmage kick formation (one quarterback lined up at least seven yards behind the line of scrimmage). That allows every player on the field to wear an eligible number (1-49, 80-99), and through a variety of pre-snap shifts, all 11 players are potentially eligible to catch a pass.

This is going to be interesting to watch, as I think the way we play football is going to change drastically in the coming years due to all the concusion related issues with the current style of football that we play.


http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_25079182/former-east-bay-prep-foot…