Fall Experimental Football League

[2] Woods and the FXFL were subject to lawsuit after folding, claiming he did not pay players, assistant coaches, cheerleaders and officials.

[3] In the summer of 2013, Brian Woods began work on a business plan for a future football development league.

[7] Original targeted markets for teams were New York City, Boston, Omaha, Orlando, Portland, and either San Antonio or Memphis, Tennessee with Wednesday games.

[5] By June 20, Tommie Harris and Eric Bassey were announced as the first owners for a franchise in Austin, Texas, the Texas Outlaws, with other teams announced without ownership were New York, Boston, Omaha, Portland, Oregon and an unselected Florida city.

In a report from the Associated Press, commissioner Brian Woods said that he was satisfied with the season and said he envisioned a bigger FXFL in 2015, with more affiliations with minor league baseball teams and stadia, targeting such cities as Memphis, Austin, Oklahoma City and somewhere in Florida.

[15] WYTV in Niles, Ohio reported on July 10, 2015 that the league was expected to place a franchise in that city for the 2015 season.

[23] A team in the National Arena League acquired the rights to the Boston Brawlers name in August 2017.

[2] After five seasons of play, TSL ceased operations as Woods assumed the presidency of a reboot of the United States Football League.

[25] As its name implies, the league adopted several experimental rule changes differing from those at other levels of the game with some at the request of the NFL.

[26] Initial plans for the league had punting, the PAT and kickoffs taken out of the game,[27] but this proposal was scrapped prior to the start of the season.

[4] Woods was quoted as saying about the new league: "Our long-term goal is to establish a partnership with the NFL and we feel can do that on many platforms.

[30][36][29] The league operated under a budget of $8 to $9 million for the first season[5] and expected to be able to be viable with minor or development team attendance of 3,000 plus.

[33] The Brawlers were initially reported as being independently owned[33] but no owner was ever identified and the league later admitted that that was not true.