Posted on 03/11/2009 3:38:12 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
More UFL coaches announced 4 teams to debut in October, including Orlando Last Edited: Wednesday, 11 Mar 2009, 6:06 PM EDT Created On: Wednesday, 11 Mar 2009, 6:06 PM EDT
- Former NFL coaches Dennis Green, Jim Fassel and Jim Haslett will lead teams in the new United Football League. The league plans to debut in October with four teams in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Orlando and New York. It announced the coaches Wednesday.
Ex-NFL defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell will coach the New York franchise. Green, the former Vikings and Cardinals coach, will be in San Francisco. Fassel, who led the Giants to the Super Bowl, will coach Las Vegas. Haslett, the ex-Saints coach, will be in Orlando. The UFL is an outdoor professional football league. Teams are scheduled to play games in Hartford and Los Angeles along with the home markets.
The league also announced that the San Francisco franchise will play games at AT&T Park.
Yawn...
I have not heard of the UFL — is it like WFL, XFL, EFL, etc?
The timing of this is a little off.
Just another league that will probably get to about 8 teams and then fold around 2012-2013 last as long as the USFL did.
Worse than XFL! four fricken teams??
Haven’t we all seen this movie before?
The only way this could fiscally work is by doing the following...
Have teams in - Oklahoma, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Nebraska, Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
You understand my logic...right?
The UFL is *special* the investor is Paul Pelosi (yes ‘that’ Pelosi).
Is this another joke? No football league has ever went toe to toe against the NFL and won.
The AFL and the USFL came close. The AFL was absorbed by the NFL, and most of the USFL’s players who could play and coaches were also absorbed by the NFL.
The other tries (Ex- XFL) Failed miserably.
I got it..:)
Pelosi tax dodge. Her husband is one of the investors, probably the owner of the SF team.
had the USFL remained a spring league, it had a 50/50 chance or better of surviving..instead, the knuckleheads decided to challenge the NFL directly and got clobbered..
And you know I am right but of course they will never do it.
Don’t forget about the now defunct Arena Football League
A new professional football league?
Talk about throwing your money away.
Who are the investors in this idiotic project?
Canadian Football League.
What do these leagues think they offer that the NFL doesn’t? Perhaps they think they can capture small market cities that doesn’t have NFL teams. But with far inferior talent and product, most people in Kentucky would rather cheer for Cincinatti, Indianapolis, or Tennesee.
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