He added: “There were owners that were open to it. I think we wanted to make a lot of changes to the game, wanted to shorten the game, change rules.” We loved them for giving us the opportunity to come in and try this. “What we ran into was we were a little bit of a square peg in a round hole,” Farudi said.

At the time, Farudi and his partners wanted to license the technology to other teams and transform the Indoor Football League to the Interactive Football League, where all teams would follow the Salt Lake model rather than the traditional method where the front office and coaches made all the decisions.

The team, the Salt Lake Screaming Eagles, debuted in 2017 and went 5-11, finishing with the seventh-best record in the 10-team league.

The group built a mobile app, too, and had fans draft players, pick the coach and call all of the offensive plays. The IFL allowed Farudi and his partners to have fans vote on the location of the franchise, ultimately deciding to have it in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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