 For its final 10 seasons, the AFL ran under a single-entity model, with the league owning the rights to the teams, players, and coaches.The single-entity model was adopted in 2010 when the league emerged from bankruptcy.Prior to that, the league followed the franchise model more common in North American professional sports leagues; each team essentially operated as its own business with different owners and the league itself was a separate entity which in exchange for franchise fees paid by the team owners provided rules, officials, scheduling and the other elements of organizational structure.