Ex-AOL Lawyer Tried in Vain to Save Arena Football League

December 3, 2019, 10:45 AM UTC

Former America Online general counsel Randall Boe knew his salvage mission wouldn’t be easy when he took the reins as commissioner of the Arena Football League last year.

The second oldest U.S. professional football league had shrunk from a height of 19 teams to four and was on the brink of dissolution when Boe arrived at the league’s Las Vegas headquarters, which he relocated to Philadelphia. Boe also looked to raise additional third-party capital to capitalize on the media market’s fragmentation by offering quality sports content and catering to sports bettors.

Boe got the AFL assignment because he served as ...

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