United States Football League
The USFL is a fan-first professional spring league that delivers fast, physical, and fun football. There are eight teams split into two divisions –– North and South. Each team plays a 10-week regular season schedule, with teams in the same division playing each other twice and teams in the other division once. With a 2-week postseason, the top two teams in each division play against each other in the USFL Playoffs followed by the USFL Championship Game. The inaugural USFL regular season kicked off on April 16, 2022 and ended with the Birmingham Stallions winning the USFL Championship. On April 15, 2023, the USFL became the first nationally televised professional spring football league in nearly 40 years to start a second season. Fans watched the USFL at four host communities in Birmingham, Canton, Detroit, and Memphis. USFL Season 2 ended with the Birmingham Stallions repeating as USFL Champions. As a league of opportunity, 60 players from USFL Season 1 signed NFL contracts. After a highly successful second season, more USFL players are expected to sign with NFL teams and compete for roster spots. We are #UnitedByFootball.www.theusfl.com
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Oct 21, 2026
Reid JohnsonGUEST
And I've done live shows there and stuff.
Reid JohnsonGUEST
That team won every UFL championship for the first three years between the USFL and the UFL, and they moved that team.
Reid JohnsonGUEST
So if I'm ever a fan, and I'm not even a fan of the Stallions or whatever, but if you're a fan of any team, how do you look at any other team moving forward and go, well, we won every championship the team could, and they still got moved.
Reid JohnsonGUEST
So what faith do I have in any of these teams moving forward? I just think it's horrible optics.
Reid JohnsonGUEST
That's when I interviewed The Rock.
Reid JohnsonGUEST
I interviewed Danny Garcia, and I interviewed Russ Brandon.
Reid JohnsonGUEST
And I said, we saw the USFL fail doing this.
Reid JohnsonGUEST
What are you guys going to do different? And Russ Brandon, to my face, said, We're going to be the first people in any of these markets.
Jason BrownHOST
AJ, I got to bring this shit up.
Jason BrownHOST
It's going to affect your guys' draft this February at USFL.
Jason BrownHOST
So where are we at with this? Because I got to be honest.
Jason BrownHOST
So you're telling me 2014 playoff comes out.
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Darnell SmithHOST
I
Jason BrownHOST
didn't know if he was playing or not.
Jason BrownHOST
I didn't know if AJ had scooped you up in the draft at USFL or what was going on.
Jason BrownHOST
So...
Rico SegoviaHOST
So high school, the kids are playing for the passion of the game, right? Yeah.
Rico SegoviaHOST
The spring league, the United Football League, is a merger of the USFL and the XFL.
Rico SegoviaHOST
They got together to form one league.
Rico SegoviaHOST
So you have, they pay them pretty well, a pretty good salary.
Keenan CurranHOST
Cookus
Samuel AkemHOST
... uh, that was my quarterback in the USFL.
Samuel AkemHOST
He just, he just got inducted in the NAU Hall of Fame.
Samuel AkemHOST
Uh-
Bill DolemanPANELIST
That was interference.
Bill DolemanPANELIST
People would laugh at the USFL, UFL, and whatever it is that they have trying to play in the spring to occupy our football fixes.
Bill DolemanPANELIST
You know, they experimented with an eye in the sky.
Bill DolemanPANELIST
I would not mind that.
Tucker FranklinHOST
UFL, yeah.
Tucker FranklinHOST
It's just when the XFL and the USFL merged, they just combined into the United Football League.
West WilsonGUEST
Oh.
Tucker FranklinHOST
Yeah.
Dean BlandinoGUEST
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Dean BlandinoGUEST
XFL, USFL, United Football League, and I, so I've lived it.
Dean BlandinoGUEST
And it was great.
Dean BlandinoGUEST
We, we started with a super challenge where we said, "You could challenge anything.
Eric NielsenHOST
And the league has already launched a social media account at UFL Utah.
Eric NielsenHOST
For those who aren't familiar, the UFL is the spring professional football league that merged the old USFL and XFL under one roof two years ago.
Eric NielsenHOST
It plays from February through June, so there's zero conflict with the NFL season.
Eric NielsenHOST
The league features real NFL caliber talent, players on the way up, and veterans staying in the game.
ReeseHOST
the XFL rebranded?
JaredHOST
They recently merged with a USFL, I believe.
JaredHOST
And it's kind of an XFL used to be part.
JaredHOST
There's been 100 leagues trying to capture the summer months with football.