The feds have approved a merger between the USFL and XFL, allowing the two spring professional football leagues to operate as one going forth. Both parties can now proceed with planning for the 2024 season, which the new league has announced will begin in 2024. What hasn’t been clear until now was which teams would … Read more
Reports have surfaced that executives for the USFL and XFL are in ongoing discussions regarding a potential merger starting as early as the spring of 2024. This is the second time that XFL ownership has entertained the idea of a merger with another pro football league. Prior to the XFL’s return in 2023, CEO Dwayne … Read more
With only two weeks remaining in the 2023 USFL regular season, all eight teams still have a chance of making it to the playoffs. In the USFL, the winner of each division gets an automatic bid to the playoffs, with the runner-up in each division becoming the second seed. Both division leaders hold a two-game … Read more
Tomorrow at 4:30 PM, the opening kickoff of the 2023 USFL season will go down at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. The league has expanded from one venue to four, leaving some local USFL markets at least a season away from a potential home game. USFL betting is now commonly featured at online … Read more
July 4th weekend represents an annual crossroads in professional sports. The NBA Finals and NHL Stanley Cup has wrapped up, leaving spectators with a heaping dollop of MLB action to carry them over until the NFL preseason begins each August. Fans can now add the USFL to the mix of leagues that wrap up by … Read more
The USFL has completed its second week of regular-season games and while the on-field product passes as legitimate gridiron action, the league does not seem to be building much momentum. While there is no doubt that professional football is the dominant spectator sport in the United States today, spring leagues have yet to establish any … Read more
The XFL still appears on track for a debut in the spring of 2023 and has made several head coaching hires over the past few days. While the hiring process appears to be complete with enough coaches for all 8 XFL teams, the league has yet to announce which franchise they will be calling the … Read more
The spring of 2022 brings another renewed attempt to establish an off-season professional football league to satisfy legions of gridiron fans that otherwise would have nothing to watch between February and September. The XFL began its first resurrection in the spring of 2020 until COVID-19 curtailed the season and eventually caused the permanent shutdown of … Read more