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The All American Football League marches on toward an eventual April 2008 kickoff. It has just held a successful draft where the six teams (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Michigan, Tennessee, and Texas) drafted players to fill out their rosters.

If you want to watch the event yourself, it looks like the live recording of the draft is still available online. (Nice introductory graphics, btw.) The first few minutes of the show serve as an introduction to the league and the reasoning behind it. A good primer for anyone interested in learning more.

Each team was able to protect 40 players, so the much of the talent has already been signed. Still 300 Players were drafted on Saturday (download the PDF from the AAFL site). Here are the top twelve:

1. Yisrael, Zarah ARK OLG Troy
2. Randall, Bryan TEN QB Virginia Tech
3. Crouch, Eric TEX QB Nebraska
4. Kresser, Eric FLA QB Marshall
5. Koral, David MIC QB UCLA
6. Sewell, Josh ALA OLC Nebraska
7. Scharff, Scott ALA DLE Stanford
8. Wormley, Rodney MIC DLE Temple
9. Smith, Thomas FLA DLE Pittsburgh
10. McCutchean, Freddy TEX DLT San Jose State
11. Sandidge, Tim TEN DLT Virginia Tech
12. Rogers, Nicholas ARK DLE Georgia Tech

Darren Heitner of the Sports Agent Blog attended the Florida team draft and after party. Most of the 40 protected players were in attendance and, with close ties to the University of Florida, the event sometimes felt like a reunion party/pep rally. Also interesting to note was the presence of potential investors. Let’s hope enough of them signed on to keep the league in the black!

One final note: after the draft, tickets to the Florida games went on sale. So now you can buy tickets to Arkansas or Florida games. The other four teams still haven’t listed dates.

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