 Unlike the previous Arena Football League and AF2, the new AFL was an entity-model league in which the league owns the individual teams and hires local management groups to operate them, rather than the traditional North American sports league model where each team is a separate business and the league is a non-profit association formed and controlled by the various team owners in order to co-ordinate and govern operations.There have been many rumors of a possible return of AF2.Some suggested that former Arena Football League commissioner Jerry Kurz had confirmed a return of the league in 2013, but that did not materialize.