The Pacific Pro Football league will be limited to players between 18 and 22 years old Photo: shannon stapleton/ReutersA litany of startup football leagues has tried—and failed—to become rivals to the mighty NFL. A new contender plans to try something different: It aspires to be an alternative to college football. The Pacific Pro Football league will debut with four teams in 2018, Yee said, and features an advisory board with prominent former NFL figures such as Mike Shanahan. Also, Northwestern’s football players lost their bid to unionize and be treated as employees of the university. Yee hopes to avoid joining a long list of failed professional football leagues, a group that includes the World Football League, the United States Football League, and the XFL.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 11, 2017 09:56 UTC