Chesapeake Bayhawks owner Brendan Kelly, whose team has won five Major League Lacrosse titles, is very happy with the success of his counterparts in the Premier Lacrosse League during their inaugural season and foresees a potential merger in the future.
"I think it's a positive thing. I think in the long term, it's got to come back together. I look at it like I looked at the AFL and the NFL and the ABA and NBA," Kelly said on Glenn Clark Radio July 1. "Sometimes it takes a little bit of that to kind of make the sport get over the hump. I'm excited about what they are doing and I am super excited about what we are doing."
MLL has been around since 2001 and is comprised of six different teams: the Denver Outlaws, Atlanta Blaze, Chesapeake Bayhawks, New York Lizards, Boston Cannons and Dallas Rattlers. That's down from the nine teams the league had from 2016-2018, and the league's attendance has declined every season from its peak in 2011.
