Orlando hires Spurrier as first Alliance coach

Redskins get Hogan from Browns as possible backup QB

plans to be back on the sideline if a proposed new professional league gets off the ground.

The Orlando Alliance announced Saturday that it has hired Spurrier as its first head coach. Spurrier will coach in the planned Alliance of American Football.

The Alliance is the creation of Pro Football Hall of Famer and longtime TV and film producer

The league plans to have eight teams and will play a 12-week season Feb. 9, 2019, and will be broadcast on CBS.

Orlando is the first planned team site, and Spurrier is the first coach.

The 72-year-old Spurrier says he’s “fired up and ready to go.”

Orlando has never had much success with startup football leagues.

The Florida Blazers lasted only one season in the ill-fated World Football League during the 1970s, followed by several other short-lived teams: The Orlando Renegades of the United States Football League, the Orlando Thunder of the World League of American Football, the Orlando Rage of the infamous XFL, and the Florida Tuckers of the United Football League.

Spurrier coached collegiately at Duke (1987-89), Florida (1990-2001) and South Carolina (2005-2015). The 1966 Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback also coached the NFL’s Washington Redskins (2002-03).

He is the fourth person to be inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.

REDSKINS-BROWNS TRADE: The Cleveland Browns traded their third quarterback of the offseason, sending

to the Washington Redskins. The teams announced the deal Friday that includes swapping sixth-round picks. Cleveland acquires the 188th pick from Washington for No. 205, which it previously acquired from New England for cornerback Hogan follows and

out the door in Cleveland. The Browns acquired cornerback Damarious Randall as part of the Kizer trade with Green Bay that included flip-flopping fifth-round picks, and got a 2019 seventh-rounder from Jacksonville for Kessler.

Cleveland, which has the first overall pick in the draft, also traded with Buffalo for the expected starter, and signed veteran toa two-year deal.

The 25-year-old Hogan has thrown for 621 yards, four touchdowns and seven interceptions and rushed for a score in eight games with Cleveland, including one start. The McLean, Va., native will compete with established No. 2 QB

to back up recently acquired