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For the UFL perception is reality, and no matter how much the league blows off the poor attendance numbers, and no matter how many viable arguments there are for why the attendance is so low, the simple fact here is if the games are poorly attended sports fans around the nation will continue to ignore this league. This league can ill afford another poor showing at a big time venue. In their second week of games just 6,341 fans showed up to San Francisco’s AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, for a game between the California Redwoods and the ...

Offense   QB’s   #7 JP Losman Tulane #12 Russ Michina Western Illinois #3 Tim Rattay Louisiana Tech   RB’s   #27 Dede Dorsey Lindenwood #39 Josh Scobey Kansas State #26 Marcel Shipp UMASS   FB’s   #44 EJ Barthel UMASS   WR’s   #84 Brian Hernandez Utah #80 David Kirkus Grand Valley State #85 Sammy Parker Oregon #13 Tab Perry UCLA #81 Andrae Thurman Southern Oregon   O Line   #65 Martin Bibla Guard Miami #79 Jesse Boone Center Utah #75 Brandon Brayton Tackle Oklahoma #73 Jason Capizzi Tackle Indiana (PA) #53 Frank Davis Guard South Florida #66 Robbie Felix Center UTEP #76 Brandon Joyce Tackle Illinois State #70 Jeremy Parquet Southern Mississippi #74 Tavares Washington Florida Defense   D Line   #95 Adrian Awasom DE North Texas #77 Wendell Bryant DT Wisconsin #94 George Gause DT South Carolina #93 Eric Henderson DE ...

The first two games of the UFL are now in the history books, this is now the latest new football league to take the field and compete. I watched one game on Versus and one game on my computer, and more than the final scores or the performances, but I am left with a few impressions of what this league this is going to be.   The game I watched on Versus was only the second sporting event I have watched on that network, and I have to say I was pretty impressed with the broadcast. However, the uniforms of the Las ...

When we start to understand why the XFL failed, and how the UFL learned from that, we must first remember that 50 percent of the XFL was owned by NBC, and the cable TV market was a lot different way back in 2001. Now days, the television audience has been severely fragmented and the low TV numbers that cost the XFL its spot on NBC may be perfectly acceptable for a cable channel like Versus.    The very first XFL game, played Feb. 3, 2001 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas between the New York/New Jersey Hitmen and the Las Vegas ...

Offense   QB’s   #5 Quinn Gray Florida A & M #3 Ingle Martin Furman   RB’s   #24 Chris Barclay Wake Forrest #21 Tyronne Gross Eastern Oregon #32 Cecil Sapp Colorado State #22 LaBrandon Toefield LSU #26 Shannon Woods Texas Tech   FB’s   #28 Charles Ali Arkansas Pine Bluff   WR’s   #7 Ryan Hoag Gustavus Adolphus #11 Lance Leggett Miami #19 Koren Robinson North Carolina State #12 Steve Sanders Bowling Green #8 Craphonso Thorpe FSU   TE’s   #87 Charles Davis Purdue #86 Ronnie Ghent Louisville #84 Christen Hopkins Toledo   Offensive Line   #67 Nate Bennett Clemson #72 Michael Fladell Rutgers #63 C Jasper Harvey San Diego State #74 Steve Justice Wake Forrest #60 Carlton Medder Florida #78 Daniel Oliphant Colby College #64 G Erik Robertson Cal #65 Orrin Thompson Duke #79 Jason Watkins Florida   Defense   Defensive Line   #90 DT Dan Pavis ...

For those who think the UFL is going to be some super new league that can compete with the NFL, I think you got some bad news coming.   This is not a league built to challenge the NFL in the way the USFL did, or is it a league that will try to boast about being better then the NFL the way the XFL did.   It seems the lessons of those two leagues has been learned, and this league is going to be something we have not seen before.   Based on conversations I have had with the folks running the UFL, and the ...

For hard core football fans all the names on this list should be somewhat familiar. The UFL has gone with heavy NFL experience in hiring their Head Coaches. While all four of these men could, and really should be, on the short list for NFL gigs, they are the men who will start to define what this new league will be. With that being said here is a look at the Head Coaches for each UFL team:   California Redwoods- Dennis Green- Dennis is a great football coach, and is usually a great sound bite. Most of us will remember his famous ...

Starting a new football league, especially one that plans to play their games in the fall versus the NFL and College Football doesn’t seem likely to have a lot of success. However the folks running the UFL seem confident that they can run their league using a lot of principles learned by other minor league sports.   First and foremost this league is being backed by a lot of big money. Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, is the owner of the California Redwoods. William Mayer, a prominent Wall Street investment banker, will own the New York Sentinels. ...

The New York Mets were added to the National League as an expansion franchise in 1962. Their addition was a response to two different baseball issues: the exodus of the Giants and Dodgers from New York and the formation of a third baseball league, the Continental League. The National League—which in those days operated more independently from the MLB as a whole—decided to expand by two teams and offered ownership of a New York franchise to the Continental League’s ownership group. This group included Joan Payson and her husband Charles Shipman and also William Shea George Herbert Walker Jr. (uncle of President ...

The New York Mets were added to the National League as an expansion franchise in 1962. Their addition was a response to two different baseball issues, the exodus of the Giants and Dodgers from New York and the formation of a third baseball league, the Continental League. The National League—which in those days operated more independent from the MLB as a whole—decided to expand by two teams and offered ownership of a New York franchise to the Continental League’s ownership group. This group included Joan Payson and her husband Charles Shipman and also included William Shea George Herbert Walker Jr. (Uncle ...