The Super Bowl just happened. Do we really need more professional football?

That's what the Alliance of American Football thinks. Don't know what the Alliance of American Football is? You're not alone.

Until this week, I wasn't even sure exactly what AAF stood for. Maybe it's an insurance company, or a smaller branch of the military?

I've seen "af" used as a sort of adverb/adjective hybrid modifier by illiterate posters on social media, as in, "Hard to prevent collisions on the runway as an air traffic controller when you're high af. lol."

So maybe "AAF" was a new version of "af", like "absolutely as .." you know the rest.

But getting back on track, AAF stands for, in this particular case, the Alliance of American Football.

Initially, the AAF was touted by some as a patriotic rebuttal to the NFL, when the league wasn't acting against players kneeling during the national anthem.

Even as someone who was particularly irritated by the kneeling scandal, I rolled my eyes at the thought of a new league being the answer to a lack of leadership from Goodell and the rest of the NFL brass.

The kneeling controversy faded, the NFL regained some of its viewership, people argued about the Super Bowl halftime concert, and Tom Brady and Bill Belichick won another ring (at this point you think they'd have to start hanging them on carabiners like custodians do with keys). In other words, everything in the NFL was going back to normal.

Up until this week, then, the AAF has mostly been an aafterthought. (See what I did there?) If the NFL was gaining some of its former glory back, why did we need more football?

Because, as great as the NFL is, it stops in February! And we should have football year-round! Football in the mornin', football in the evenin', football at suppertime! Football football football football!!

How many Americans actually want to watch football all year? The NFL regular season is 16 weeks long. That's already almost 1/3 of the year. Not including pre-season play, September through February (assuming you watch through the Super Bowl), is a long, long time.

And that time is already (in my not-so-humble opinion) nearly over-saturated with football. I know it's the same amount of games being played, but with the big TV events of Sunday night and Thursday night football, it feels like a lot more games.

Remember back when almost every football game was played on Sunday afternoon, and then there was one special prime time match up every week played on Monday night? It seemed so important and intentional.

Now, I can't even remember the last network to carry Thursday Night Football. Maybe it was on Bravo! after all those shows featuring the wealthy pukes who have nothing better to do than sit around and complain about each other on camera. Or maybe it was TLC airing the Thursday night games, following their exploitation of morbidly obese people on "My 600-lb. Life".

The point is, there's already a lot of football. And I, for one, as a somewhat casual fan, like the break between February and September. We need a chance to miss the teams; absence does, in fact, make the heart grow fonder. Too much football, like too many trips to Golden Corral, can be bad for the heart. (Just ask the people featured on "My 600-lb. Life".)

The teams of the Alliance of American Football. What do you think of these team names and logos?

I realize a lot of people disagree with me, and are more than happy to watch football year-round, especially in the South, where a lot of the AAF teams are based. It's also smart for the AAF, and to its advantage, to avoid competing with the NFL for viewership by starting their seasons after the Super Bowl.

But the NFL is king because it's attracted people who aren't diehard fans. And those "casuals", like me, see the spring as a time for golf, baseball, track and field, cursing the IRS while preparing their taxes, pretty much anything but football.

I don't want the AAF to fail. If it were cheap and a game was being held close by, I'd be willing to go check it out for myself. But I'm not going to make a road trip or pay for an extra streaming service just to try it out.

Maybe the AAF will be a good minor league of sorts for the NFL (although we already have the SEC in college football), and enough people will want to watch to sustain it.

But I, for one, am not going to give my time as a sports fan to the league. My TV time is already so limited (small kids are awesome, but they're like a free-time black hole in your life, demanding what can feel like just about every moment of your day), that I'm reluctant to risk it on a new pro sports endeavor.

And most of all, I need that break in my life. There really is such a thing as too much of a good thing, and football is a good thing, so I don't want to ruin it.