Donald Trump Joins Alliance with Generals
AAF Lands Controversial Figure
August 20, 2022
Columbus, OH - Donald Trump and Trump Towers Sports & Entertainment LLC announced that the Columbus Generals would be once again joining the Alliance. This time as a 2023 expansion team.
“Vince and I are good friends. Great friends. He has assembled a great team of people to run this league and they're doing everything correctly from a business perspective. I won't get involved there, but my team and soon to be teams will be winners. I'm the greatest winner in the history of the whole world, and my teams will be too.”
Trump introduced the crowd to their newest Head Coach, Matt Patricia. After being an New England Patriots assistant from 2004 to 2011, he was promoted to Defensive Coordinator in 2012 and served in that role until 2017 when he became the Head Coach of the Detroit Lions. After three seasons with the Lions, he has been a defensive assistant with the Patriots since 2021.
Joining Patricia in Columbus will be Romeo Crennel as the Defensive Coordinator and Bill Lazor as the Offensive Coordinator. Crennel has been a Defensive Coordinator in the NFL for four different teams for 12 seasons and has served as the Head Coach of the Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans. Lazor was the Miami Dolphins OC in 2014-2015 and the Cincinnati Bengals' OC in 2017-2018 before filling the same role with the Chicago Bears from 2020-2021.
Also joining the staff in Columbus will be Steve Hoffman as the Special Teams Coordinator and Pepper Johnson as the LBs Coach. Hoffman was the STC with the Kansas City Chiefs from 2009 to 2011 and then with the Tennessee Titans from 2013 to 2017. Pepper Johnson played in the NFL from 1986 to 1998 before becoming the LBs coach with the New England Patriots from 2000 to 2013, with the Buffalo Bills for 2014 and then with the New York Jets from 2015 to 2016. Johnson played his college football right there in Columbus for the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Former Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots General Manager Scott Pioli will serve as the GM for the Generals.
The Generals will be playing their home games at Mapfe Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.