United Football League: The Merger of XFL & USFL

[Action Newsroom 1376]

The USFL and XFL are merging into a brand new spring football league -- the United Football League. The first season under the newly formed entity is on March 30.

 

https://deadline.com/2023/12/united-football-league-plans-xfl-usfl-merger-1235684077/

[HSV cheesehead 104]

This does not surprise me one bit. Especially since many don't even understand the difference between the two, other than the fact that they are both just football in the spring or summer.

[nickp 393]

I hope those buckeye players who want to pursue professional football opportunities realize there is more than one pathway to the NFL and that is the United Football League

[Abraham J. Simpson 317]

Maybe the 432nd time will be the charm.

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

Because after being taxed to death by the NFL and college football (well, sort of through rising TV rates and such) all America needs is another football league after the season is over, right?

 

 

Edited January 3, 2024 by tyrannical bastard

[Yankees4life 599]

Spring football is just not gonna be a thing. Bunch of rich idiots here are just burning money on nothing

[Viper550 318]

 

And the USFL version of the 2020-23 Fox graphics still live...

[hfiles 105]

This is the wrong place for this question, but I don't know where else to put it... Are the ads for the FOX Sports app managed by the local FOX affiliate? I need to know who to complain to, because the FOX UFL games are better picture quality in the FOX Sports app.

 

Our local FOX affiliate is Sinclair and I keep getting the same four ads for Full Measure (featuring the 15th anniversary of 9/11), The American Sports Network (now defunct), Tennis Channel, and an old season of So You Think You Can Dance.

Edited April 21, 2024 by hfiles

[TheRolyPoly 3510]

Bringing this back from the dead because for the upcoming UFL season... four teams are being relocated.

 

Michigan, Houston, Birmingham, and Memphis are OUT, Boise, Columbus (Ohio), Florida (likely Orlando), and Kentucky (either Louisville or Lexington) are IN.

 

https://pfnewsroom.com/news/ufl-to-relocate-four-markets-for-the-2026-season/

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

Sad to say, but the UFL is and will always be a league to give football to TV networks in the off-season of the NFL.

 

You know broadcast is in the toilet when crap sports like this are pre-empting normal programming.

 

Even scanning the Birmingham station websites makes little to no mention of the Stallions uprooting from there.  There's a blip on WBRC's page, but that's it.

Edited July 23, 2025 by tyrannical bastard

[TennTV1983 870]

5 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Sad to say, but the UFL is and will always be a league to give football to TV networks in the off-season of the NFL.

 

You know broadcast is in the toilet when crap sports like this are pre-empting normal programming.

 

Even scanning the Birmingham station websites makes little to no mention of the Stallions uprooting from there.  There's a blip on WBRC's page, but that's it.

 

WIAT opened their 10pm newscast on the story last night: https://www.cbs42.com/sports/report-birmingham-stallions-to-move/

Edited July 23, 2025 by TennTV1983

[tyrannical bastard 4676]

7 hours ago, TennTV1983 said:

 

WIAT opened their 10pm newscast on the story last night: https://www.cbs42.com/sports/report-birmingham-stallions-to-move/

More proof that stations posting to their websites is an afterthought.  They're not updated consistently and actual news is sometimes omitted or buried. 

 

Instead they waste time posting to Facebook where actual news gets buried in their algorithm and you find out 3 days later that there was a (now long-expired) tornado warning in your feed.

Edited July 24, 2025 by tyrannical bastard

[Megatron81 343]

Ford Field looked like it was COVID for Michigan Panthers games hardly anyone their unlike when it's Lions where it is always a sellout. I was rooting hard for Michigan to win the UFL Championship I stopped watching when DC was all but going to win the game. I hope they're not moving to Ohio.