Has there ever been a non-NFL startup as lame as the UFL?

Even the XFL, for all its bad qualities, had some character. And the poor, poor USFL is the league that could've been, but collapsed because it was run by a bunch of Dan Syder-type owners and was not-so-secretly undermined by the NFL itself.

But the UFL? Are you f$%king kidding me?

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How am I supposed to tell the teams apart if they're all aqua blue and lime green? It's like a whole league of Seattle Seahawks.

JP Losman is playing for the Las Vegas Locomotives.

Damn those unis are simply terrible.

jesus, there's only four teams in this trainwreck and they have a 7 game schedule plus a championship game. these are the worst logos ever

http://www.ufl-football.com/teams

wtf

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are you kidding me? who wouldn't rather be watching tatum bell & mike mcmahon?
it's like they just take all the guys who can't even quite cut it on the LIONS and give 'em a second chance at playing.

you can buy any mini helmet you want as long you don't want something stupid like a team specific one

http://www.getufl.com/ufl/images/ufl_mini.jpg

What I would do as commish is divide the teams up in the old NFL/AFL style so that say, the California Redwoods would play the Las Vegas Locos 14 times and the Sentinels and the Tuskers would play each other 14 times.

The two league winners would square off for all the marbles and I would literally award the champion marbles.

I do like their ticket pricing scheme where tickets are either 72 dollars or 7.

DREAM SEATS $72.00
CENTER SIDELINE $7.00
UPPER CENTER/OUTER CENTER SIDELINE $7.00
LOW OUTER SIDELINE $7.00
UPPER OUTER SIDELINE/LOW END ZONE $7.00
UPPER END ZONE $7.00
BLEACHERS $7.00

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every hat has a line through the logo to differentiate it from other sports leagues where you can see the team logo

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whoa those aren't even logos they're just abbreviations

I'm thinking NY has a good chance this year to take the crown.

these are two different teams playing each other

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Things that are great about UFL Exhibit A:

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Things that are great about UFL Exhibit B:

Adrian Awasom (born October 25, 1983 in Fort Bend, Texas) is an American football defensive end for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League.

Things that are great about UFL Exhibit C:

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ahem, Exhibit C:

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I liked the empty frame better.

the frame was in a team color! but which team?

leagues that are apparently inspired by the alternate universe of 'any given sunday' are a little iffy from the get

California Redwoods. Their color is green, though, not red. Because California fans are big on things that are "green," like wine, cheese, electric cars, composting toilets, and minor league football teams made from 100% recycled players and coaches.

Though I think maybe all the frames are green.

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just sayin'...

hey man buy those $72 dream seats if that's what you want. Me? I'll be watching some real football this Sunday when the Browns take on, uh, nevermind.

Redwoods play around the corner from my office Friday. If I end up checking it out I'll report back!

imagining a vacant lot with a sidewalk as one end zone and a grassy patch as the other

The Orlando team plays at the Citrus Bowl, which is essentially a vacant lot with grassy patches and concrete.

I kind of wish the Redwoods helmets had little sprigs of redwood on them, like camouflaged army helmets.

to paraphrase Brownie: hey man buy those $72 dream seats if that's what you want. Me? I'll be watching some real football this Sunday when the Raiders take on, uh, nevermind...

Redwoods roster reads like a 'where are they now' list:
Shane Boyd
BJ Sams
Doug Gabriel...

It's like a 'Former Ladies of the Supremes' concert.

lmao @ "dream seats"

SON HAPPY BIRTHDAY WE ARE GOING TO A UFL GAME AND SITTING IN THE DREAM SEATS BECAUSE IT IS YOUR DREAM

this is amazing tho

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I'd thought about seeing a Tuskers game just for the hell of it, but I have an irrational hatred of Jim Haslett. It's entirely possible I could throw something at him if he comes near enough.

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Yeah, way to build a fanbase, Florida Tuskers. Belittle a serious concussion of a college quarterback that a good 33.3% of the state of Florida (i.e. your ticket-buying public) seems to treat like a god.

Also funny? They don't even own ufl.com.

Who does? The University of Florida, which fields a better team than any city in this league.

yeah here i was thinking EVERYONE IN THE WORLD cared about the tim tebow concussion. thanks, ufl.

florida tuskers mascot

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I wonder what kind of names they came up with for the wildcat offense

It's already been assigned at HQ. Two teams run bluecat, two teams run greencat.

http://www.scottfromcanada.com/pics/limecat2.jpg

Apparently, the uniformity of the uniforms is going to change in the second year. Good, I guess. But what about the suckers who buy UFL wear this year, and then next year their team looks totally different?

lol the Tampa Bay Rays own the Florida Tuskers, which strikes me funny for some reason.

But what about the suckers who buy UFL wear this year

thinking that's not a big real-world concern

true

The more I think about it, the more I would like to see a Redwoods game. Just for lols. Hell, I pay to see the Raiders, can it be worse?

I have a dream: $72 seats at a Redwoods game

I haven't seen anything about $7 tickets at all. That's surely the only way I'd check this out live.

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>:[

tho i'm guessing you could buy the cheap tix and kinda plop yourself anywhere after the first quarter.

I feel like that would be unfair to the dream seat ticket holders

whoa cali has some steep ticket prices

the ones I quoted were for the Locos

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tho i'm guessing you could buy the cheap tix and kinda plop yourself anywhere after the first quarter

I'm think this is why every seat costs 7 dollars in Vegas

I bet whoever designs Oregon's uniforms was consulted for these, and then they were made at a trade school.

Which is worse? Being booed by 70,000 people or by 1,500 people?

Imagine this tableau of fans:

Left: Shirtless guy holding a cardboard sign that says L, but his chest is an upside-down exclamation point.
Next: Trashy blonde holding an O sign. Her exposed belly says L.
Next: Her shirtless boyfriend, making out with her, and his chest says O
Next: Little kid, wearing a jersey I'm not familiar with that says 85, holding a sign that he is not holding up.
Next: Slightly older, shirt wearing kid holding an O sign.
Next: Fat, shirtless man playing with a smart phone. His belly says O
Next: Homicidal shirtless man holding an S sign. He has a pathetic tattoo.
Right, front: Little kid holding a sign that says A. He is wearing a shirt.
Third to right, rear: Token black guy, shirtless, chest says S, not paying attention.
Second to right, rear: guy on smartphone, shirtless, chest says "C"
Rightmost guy, rear: Not paying attention, shirtless, chest says "!"

There is one guy behind them all who is shirted, folding his arm, looks bummed.

Behind them are empty stands.

I'm just saying that if we happened to be interested ... like, if it struck our fancy ... we could be playing UFL fantasy football.

It's an option.

Just saying.

If I had to guess, I'd say its "!LOLO_OOSASC!"

Jay Gruden sounds EXACTLY like John Gruden.

Doug Flutie says he will put the Tuskers' best 22 guys against anybody's.

Kordell Stewart just interviewed Tuskers offensive coordinator Jay Gruden while they were in the redzone, while they were scoring a touchdown. They Kordell kicked it back to the booth and they were like "that was a touchdown btw". Jay Gruden was clearly not doing anything beyond hangin' with Kordell.

When the Locos get a first down, a train whistle goes WOO WOOOOOOOOO

omg the Locos just scored a touchdown WOOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

haha! I had to click off the stream because it was getting choppy.

Jay Gruden used to be the coach for Orlando's arena team, and he was great fun on the radio.

This white wine is affecting my spelling a little.

Brooks Bollinger is definitely a first-rounder in any UFL fantasy league.

Why did Florida just go for it on 4th and 7 up by 21 points?

Kordell just tried to get a guy to do the Stanky Legg!

Let's be honest: you really aren't watching the UFL unless you're watching it in HD.

You can see each of the 500 people in the stands.

So many dreams are being fulfilled tonight.

C-L I am a little bit behind because I had to pause on the tableau.

Hahaha, Versus is one of like three cable channels my weirdass Comcast plan has in HD. So I am EXPERIENCING this. I can see every empty seat in the end-zone!

xp I am sorry if I just spoiled your UFL experience in any way.

Taye Biddle believes that you should "act like you've been here before" even though this is the second ever game in the history of the team/league. Is he acting like the UFL existed before this season?

What kind of weird fantasy life does Taye Biddle have. It is clearly perverted.

STANKY LEGG OMG

Suddenly the choo-choo is on overdrive. JP is money in the 4th quarter.

Oh God no Ricky Manning Jr is in the UFL! This is clearly karmic retribution for the time he and Maurice Jones-Drew and some other dude beat up a kid at a Denny's in Westwood for having a laptop.

Nobody is more clutch in the UFL than JP Losman, is what I can figure.

Former Charger DeJuan Tribble is having a nice game, no lie.

omg Simeon Rice is on the NY team!!

CHOOOOOOO CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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^mascot?

I just imagined that Jim Fossle was my dad and I felt so wistful about how his life has turned out. :(

Maybe Al Davis will move his team to the UFL, so they can win more games.

(Note: it would be the greatest day of my life if that happened)

Wow, they just put up a graphic with a photo of JP and he is lookin' ROUGH.

Honestly would love to see the Raiders play the Tuskers. How could we make this happen.

I like how they mic up the coaches even as they are calling plays. Because apparently Versus does not even expect the people on the other team to be watching their UFL coverage.

CHOOOO CHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

"Apparently Samie loves the jerk route." - Doug Flutie

I think the only way to pull off the Raiders-to-UFL move is to have a UFL team threaten to sign every guy at next year's draft who runs a 4.3 40 and can do nothing else well. Either that or follow the lead of Dexter Jackson and sign all the remaining Super Bowl MVPs.

Brooks Bollinger would be a huge upgrade at QB for the Raiders, I think.

Haslett looks hilarious with his playcard shoved halfway down his pants.

Good game, everyone.

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VICTORYYYYYYYYY

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omg California is playing New York on Saturday

"Denny Green's California Redwoods"

Who are apparently owned by Nancy Pelosi's husband!

Man am I bummed I missed this.

so jealous that i didn't watch!!

I need to get UFL into my life. If not to familiarize myself with the teams for the inevitable Raider move...

poly that was impressive

i watched for like a half hour in the second qtr and the only interesting thing that happened was an o-lineman gettin rolled up on and all i could think of was how it would probably affect his reg job at home depot or some such ;_;

the raiders would not win in this league, guys

browns would go 7-0 and win the whole thing fyi

They could use this league as a relegation league.

What's the league below UFL? Raiders would go there.
Or be adopted as a local Pop Warner team maybe.

Back in the 80s, I would watch some CFL when they had it on. They got two teams called Rough Riders and they got some french word term for downing the ball in the end zone which gives you a point.

NFL should try and work out a development deal with those guys.

I would watch the CFL if I could find it anywhere on US tv. Go Blue Bombers!

After two seasons, the FL Tuskers have folded. In 2011, there's going to be a new Norfolk, VA team where the Tuskers coach (Jay Gruden) and staff will head to.

Five teams total.

Still lame.