What are your thoughts on the XFL and the USFL merging to the UFL?

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DirkDiggles
01/02/2024
11:32 PM
#1
Season starts on March 30th. First game is going to be Champion vs Champion. The Arlington Renegades vs Birmingham Stallions

USFL teams
  • Birmingham Stallions
  • Houston Roughnecks
  • Memphis Showboats
  • Michigan Panthers
XFL teams
  • Arlington Renegades
  • D.C. Defenders
  • San Antonio Brahmas
  • St. Louis Battlehawks


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DarthAragorn
01/02/2024
11:33 PM
#2
my first thought is i can't wait for marquez valdes scantling to be on one of these teams next year
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Zikten
01/02/2024
11:34 PM
#3
Only 8 teams still? I assumed part of the reason to merge was to grow in size
archizzy
01/02/2024
11:42 PM
#4
Im a massive football fan. Love college and pro football. Dont care at all about these other leagues. I dont want football year round with multiple leagues. Didnt care about USFL in the 80s, didnt care about Canadian football league, and didnt care about XFL first time around. Never was interested in arena league and this current merger doesnt interest me.

Goodluck to them though and for the people interested.
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Calwings
01/02/2024
11:43 PM
#5
The Battlehawks are still around, so I'm definitely going to watch and I really want to go to a game this season. Hopefully it keeps most of the XFL rules and vibes, but with the USFL's higher budget, advertising, and production quality.

Zikten posted...
Only 8 teams still? I assumed part of the reason to merge was to grow in size

The USFL was making profit and had the backing of a major network and great advertising, but was getting bad ratings and the hub system was really unpopular. The XFL was getting better ratings (on worse networks than the USFL) and better social media numbers, but was hemorrhaging money. This merger was basically an attempt to combine their strengths to keep them both from dying.
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ironman2009
01/03/2024
12:01 AM
#7
More football is fine with me. I might watch it, might not. Not mad it exists.
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Zikten
01/03/2024
03:16 AM
#9
Calwings posted...
The USFL was making profit and had the backing of a major network and great advertising, but was getting bad ratings and the hub system was really unpopular. The XFL was getting better ratings (on worse networks than the USFL) and better social media numbers, but was hemorrhaging money. This merger was basically an attempt to combine their strengths to keep them both from dying.
But why did not every team survive? I don't know how many teams there were in both leagues but it couldn't have been 4 each I know at least Seattle Sea Dragons are missing
Hickey_Blvd46
01/03/2024
03:37 AM
#10
Im guessing they kept the teams with the best viewership and eliminated the rest
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Zikten
01/03/2024
05:49 AM
#11
Still, only 8 teams is lame
Serious_Cat
01/03/2024
06:18 AM
#12
I care enough that I read the gist of it, but haven't actively cared about the XFL since its first time around.
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UnholyMudcrab
01/03/2024
06:29 AM
#13
My thoughts are that I don't even know what the USFL is and was under the impression that the XFL has been barely managing to keep its head above water for its entire existence.
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Calwings
01/03/2024
04:49 PM
#14
Zikten posted...
But why did not every team survive? I don't know how many teams there were in both leagues but it couldn't have been 4 each I know at least Seattle Sea Dragons are missing

This new UFL has 5 teams from the XFL and 3 from the USFL. There was some market overlap (both leagues had a team in Houston, for example) which made some teams redundant, and I guess they thought starting with 8 teams again and then gauging possible expansion later was better than starting with however many they would have had if they simply combined the leagues and removed the redundant teams.

If they do expand to 10 or 12 teams later on, I'd be willing to bet that the Seattle Sea Dragons would be at the top of the list for returning teams.
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Link_of_time
01/03/2024
05:36 PM
#15
still think 8 teams is too few. Seattle not making the cut when their games always had a audience is also just a bad move.
Kamen_Rider_Blade
01/03/2024
05:40 PM
#16
If the UFL & CFL combined, they'd have 17 teams.

Would that be enough?
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Irony
01/03/2024
05:46 PM
#17
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