NAAF Semi-Pro Partnership

NAAF Semi-Pro Partnership

It was announced during the offseason that the NAAF had decided to strengthen their partnerships with lower levels of hybrid football. Over the years, the Ligue de football amateur du Québec and the New England Regional Amateur League have become the biggest competitions outside of the NAAF that play hybrid football. The NAAF and the two leagues would be working together to try and help the two leagues create more revenue and grow the game. They announced that the two leagues would move from amateur (a level of league in which there isn’t salaries, only prize money), to a new level known as Semi-Pro. The new style would allow for an increase in revenue and pay for the players involved which would likely be standardized across the leagues. The most important part of this would be the ability of NAAF Reserve List players to be loaned out to Semi-pro teams for their 6-game season. 

The two leagues would be rebranded as the Eastern Canadian Semi-Pro Football League/Ligue de football semi-pro de l'Est du Canada (ECSFL/LFSEC) and the New England Semi-Pro Football Championship (NESFC). 

The ECSFL would take the current 8 Quebec teams and add 2 Ontario teams, specifically the Toronto Brawlers and Kitchener Blue Tigers.
WEST
Toronto Brawlers
Kitchener Blue Tigers
Gatineau Rangers
Montreal Owls
Longueuil Larks

EAST
Sherbrooke Bulldogs
Trois-Rivieres Voyageurs
Levis Lions
Quebec City Knights (Chevaliers)
Quebec City Rams (Béliers) 

The NESFC was renamed to match the old New England Football Championship (the original league that used the McCallister Cup and originally contained Providence, Boston, and Hartford (Long Island). Several teams that have won the McCallister cup in their history are a part of the league (Cambridge Rovers, Manchester Blues (Blueshirts), and New Haven Scouts. It was much smaller than the ECSFL with only 6 teams:

NESFC
Cambridge Rovers
Portland Gulls
Manchester Blues
New Haven Scouts
Springfield Black Bears
Lowell Lancers

*This won't be a major part of the story, just a little bit of world-building.