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New Football League?
Sports Illustrated ^
| Monday February 25, 2008
| Peter King
Posted on 02/25/2008 2:01:52 PM PST by TBP
Sounds like the United Football League is going to happen in 2009. Prospective UFL commissioner Michael Huyghue told agents the other day it will be an eight-team league (he said six owners, including Mark Cuban, are already in place), beginning in August 2009. The details were sketchy from there, but some agents reported that the minimum salary would be $75,000, the league would go after existing NFL personnel people and assistant coaches to be the league's GMs and head coaches, and the league would try to sign some of the 30th through 43rd players on NFL rosters for slightly more money than they'd make in the big league.
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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: competition; football; nfl; sports; ufl
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Sounds like the NFL may be in for a little competition.
They'll need more than Cuban, though.
Will they be able to play in NFL stadia? In many markets, it won't matter.
I bet they put a team in LA.
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:01:53 PM PST
by
TBP
To: TBP
Another new football league? Sheesh the AAFL is just getting started too.
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:04:16 PM PST
by
aft_lizard
(born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
To: TBP
I bet that Los Angeles, Memphis, Louisville, and Las Vegas will be on their radar.
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:05:59 PM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: TBP
The XFL and USFL failed, this will too.
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:06:52 PM PST
by
Thunder90
To: Perdogg; scott says
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:06:58 PM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: TBP
Sounds like a step up from Arena football.
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:06:59 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(http://www.fourfriedchickensandacoke.blogspot.com)
To: GraniteStateConservative
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:10:05 PM PST
by
GeronL
(or maybe I just read too much)
To: GraniteStateConservative
Don’t forget Dallas. Once the Cowboys move to their new home, we’ll have an empty Texas Stadium UFL business.
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:10:31 PM PST
by
al_c
(Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
Don’t forget Dallas. Once the Cowboys move to their new home, we’ll have an empty Texas Stadium open for UFL business.
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:11:17 PM PST
by
al_c
(Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
To: Thunder90
If they recruit good players, which anyone on a NFL squad or practice squad ( some good college ones that missed the draft ) are only slightly less a player that the “star”, and pay them a reasonable salary instead of the multi-million crapola and not try to make the players into this hero type, gladiator, rock star image, I’ll watch it over the NFL.
To: Thunder90
So did the WFL and the NFL Eorope.
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:14:42 PM PST
by
skimask
(Support Terrorism......Vote Democratic)
To: GraniteStateConservative
Memphis (Football) Grizzles
Memphis Showboats
Memphis MadDogs
Heck, I’ve even forgotten the XFL name here.
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:18:24 PM PST
by
Sybeck1
(It's truly bad when your Savior in November is Judas Himself.)
To: skimask; Thunder90
There have been plenty of contenders. Not even Cuban’s money can make this succeed where so many have failed.
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:18:44 PM PST
by
highball
("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
To: Sybeck1
I think the MadDogs was the XFL, wasn’t it?
Grizzlies - WFL
Showboats - USFL
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:38:33 PM PST
by
HeadOn
(Maybe letting the Republican party die is the only way out...)
To: HeadOn
No, MadDogs were CFL, Canadian Football. LOL..
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:43:56 PM PST
by
Sybeck1
(It's truly bad when your Savior in November is Judas Himself.)
To: Thunder90
The USFL might have made it if owners like Donald Trump & Ed Debartolo hadn’t tried to get into bidding wars with the NFL to sign top-draft picks. The USFL was designed to be a minor league, but some of the owners had delusions that they were the AFL of the ‘80’s.
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posted on
02/25/2008 2:53:41 PM PST
by
Tallguy
(Tagline is offline till something better comes along...)
To: TBP
Is Las Vegas going after ANOTHER deadbeat football league team?
Watching 30th through 43rd level players seems to be their style.
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posted on
02/25/2008 3:03:29 PM PST
by
righttackle44
(The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
To: Sybeck1
AH - Google is our friend - Memphis Maniax = XFL
I had totally forgotten that we had a CFL team.
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posted on
02/25/2008 3:15:25 PM PST
by
HeadOn
(Maybe letting the Republican party die is the only way out...)
To: TBP
****he said six owners, including Mark Cuban****
I stopped right there. He's a scum and a flag-burner is his soul.
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posted on
02/25/2008 4:45:01 PM PST
by
fkabuckeyesrule
(I wish there was a baseball game on.)
To: TBP
Will they have cheerleaders dancing in the stands like the XFL?
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posted on
02/25/2008 4:46:26 PM PST
by
fkabuckeyesrule
(I wish there was a baseball game on.)
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