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Commanders comeback a possibility for San Antonio

Major League Football, which hopes to finally launch this spring with a “demonstration season” and a handful of teams, is already contemplating expansion possibilities.

San Antonio is on the list for consideration, said Frank Murtha, president, CEO and co-founder of the latest league to try to capture — and keep — football fans’ attention after the Super Bowl.


The new publicly traded league (OTC: MLFB) could use the nationally televised games in a condensed startup season amid a pandemic to gain some critical exposure.

The plan is to launch in 2022 with more teams and a complete schedule. After seeing how fans here responded to the now defunct Alliance of American Football’s San Antonio Commanders, MLFB officials have a keen interest in this football-starved market.

“We certainly think San Antonio is a prime city,” Murtha said.

The MLFB was supposed to launch in 2016. Financial issues and some restructuring delayed its start. Then the outbreak of the novel coronavirus created more uncertainties for the upstart league.

Murtha said that when MLFB officials initially took an interest in San Antonio a few years ago, local officials were busy courting the NFL's Raiders. Owner Mark Davis ultimately moved the franchise from Oakland to Las Vegas, and in 2019, the AAF awarded a team to the Alamo City.

San Antonio fans showed up in impressive numbers at the Alamodome and in front of their televisions for Commanders games.

Interestingly, the MLFB now owns much of the AAF’s equipment, including uniforms worn by the Commanders and the league’s seven other teams, which it has stored in San Antonio.

One of the lessons this new league could learn from the AAF is the need to be more frugal from the outset. Murtha suggested he could “open a Best Buy” with all the computers that Alliance officials bought.

As for the MLFB, it’s about moving from the planning stages to the turf. Once the league has some games under its belt, leaders can look to expand on the playbook, which includes targeting markets without competition from NFL or Major League Baseball teams.


“We do have an interest in San Antonio. We do have plans to reach out,” Murtha said. “We just want to do it right.”