Claim: Martin Bayless retired from the NFL in 1998; then, he became the assistant team's coordinator and secondary coach for the Birmingham Iron in 2018, which was only a charter team of the Alliance of American Football by then.
Evidence: After retiring from the NFL in 1998, he joined the Buffalo Bills as a Front Office Executive in 2000. In 2018, Bayless became the assistant special teams coordinator and secondary coach for the Birmingham Iron of the Alliance of American Football. The team was announced as a charter team of the Alliance of American Football on June 4, 2018.