Minor league football (gridiron)

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Minor league football, also known as alternative football or secondary football, is an umbrella term for professional gridiron football that is played below the major league level. The National Football League and Canadian Football League are both designated as major leagues, but contrary to the other major sports leagues in North America—Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League—no formal development farm system was in use after the NFL severed ties with all minor league teams in 1948. The developmental league concept was shuttered again with the cancellation of NFL Europe in 2006. Since 2018, the CFL has had a partnership agreement with the Professional American Football League of Mexico (LFA) for player development, but does not consider it a minor league in the traditional sense. In 2023, the NFL signed a collaboration agreement with the XFL on rules, equipment, and safety testing (which was later transferred to the UFL), but the agreement...

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