Having decided that the only thing worse than having football and losing money is having no football and STILL losing money, NBC and TNT are starting a league of its own. Details are still being worked out, but the league would begin play on Sundays in the fall of 1999 in 10 to 12 'major U.S. cities' (Read Birmingham, Memphis and every other medium-sized town shunned by the NFL, plus Los Angeles, which has lacked an NFL team since the Raiders and Rams fled for sweeter stadium deals).