I kinda wonder how Rod Smart(He Hate Me)ended up. My guess is he didn't make that much money and is probably just scraping by.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Smart#All_American_Football_League
Smart was selected by Team Tennessee during the inaugural draft of the All American Football League on January 26, 2008.
he played 4 yrs. with the Carolina Panthers, mainly on special teams. Was released in ‘06 and I presume he has now retired.
As far as the Arena league goes, if a tree falls in the forest....
It had a lot of potential. Clearly the money was behind it and it had some powerful people backing it, but it was too NFL-like for its own good.
You might chuckle, but I thought that a better strategy would have been if Vince McMahon had made it more WWE-like and less NFL-like (not in the sense that the games are rigged). Forget tying teams to cities; rather, the team should adopt the persona of its coach and basically barnstorm. No fixed schedules; rather, a wrestling or boxing-like challenge ladder should exist such that the defending champ might only play a handful of times a year, but always to defend its title. I would have also liked to have seen a rule for no fixed contracts.
But it wasn't to be. The XFL was an NFL copycat with sub-par players and will forever be remembered for "He Hate Me." It was doomed to fail from the beginning. AFL is closer to something unique, but it never really had the money it needed to compete, as witnessed by today's decision.
Smart played five seasons in the NFL for Philadelphia and Carolina and played in a Super Bowl. Might even have stayed in long enough to get into the pension plan.