United Football League: America's Demand for Football
UFL Coming This Fall
The league is in final stages of planning with an expected kick off date in October and the championship game played over Thanksgiving weekend. The league is comprised of 4 teams representing Las Vegas/Los Angeles, New York/Hartford, San Francisco/Sacramento, and Orlando. Each team will play a six game regular season, three road games, two home games and one game in their other represented city. Orlando's third home game will be played at a neutral site. Games will be played on Thursday and Friday nights.
The league Commissioner is Michael Huyghue, who has over 20 years of NFL management experience and helped establish the Jacksonville Jaguars. The rest of the UFL executives have a plethora of NFL experience, which should help ensure the league's survival. We all remember the disaster that was the XFL. The UFL should expand each year as more potential owners become interested and cities without NFL teams request more football. Salt Lake City is rumored to be a potential market for a team in 2010.
According to Sean Gregory of Time Magazine in his article "Battling the NFL: Two Hail-Mary Passes", the owners will invest $30 million for a 50% stake in their teams with the UFL owning the other 50%. The league will then try and sell their shares to the public in an effort to raise another $60 million for each team. Each team will have a $20 million player salary cap and $3 million coach's salary cap. The league hopes to have roughly 10 players per team make at least $1 million.
Jim Fassel, former coach of the New York Giants, has already signed on to coach the Las Vegas/Los Angeles team. This is just one of many familiar names we should expect to see. The other three coaching jobs have yet to be announced, but we should expect to see either more former NFL coaches, assistant Division I college football coaches, or Division II head college football coaches. The rosters should be filled with players cut by NFL teams and undrafted college players.
The league's hopes of long-term success will rely on what kind of TV deal they can put together. No matter what happens in the future, I think we can all get excited about more football and what appears to be a highly competitive league.
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1669649,00.html - Time Magazine, Sean Gregory
Published by Jake James
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