Top 5 Potential Expansion Cities For The UFL
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- The UFL has had a pretty successful season up to this point and there have been some discussions about where the league could expand to. With these discussions, I've decided to look into a few cities that I believe could make pretty solid if the league does decide to expand next season.
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Surprised Omaha wasn't mentioned in this video.. iN the old UFL they had anywhere from 15K to 24K fans a game and also this on the border of two states with no Pro teams
Honestly, I would love to see them use city nicknames instead of actual city names.i.e. Las vegas vipers...sin city vipers, Pittsburgh maulers.....steel town maulers....nashville, music city...Denver, mile high...michigain, motor city...Etc. I think it would help grow an attachment much needed to new and existing teams and to me they sound pretty cool. Also, bring a team to new orleans. Love this league
Why would you want to put a team in a city with a nfl team like Denver and not canton that is the birthplace of football and a 20,000 seat stadium
Because denver is a great sports city that gets a lot of fan support for all their major franchises and just to inform you denver had one of the highest home field fan attendance in the old usfl
Birthplace of the NFL, not football
Boulder?? Hell no. Bring back the Denver Gold of the USFL.
Yes Portland!! I live just outside of it and have wanted an xfl/ufl team so bad. The PORTLAND PIONEERS LESGOO!
Not including cities that were left out of the merger? You had to leave out several viable teams/markets to get to 8 teams for the combined league, why wouldn't you want to get those teams/markets back as soon as possible?
Oakland had a team in the past when the riaders left to L.A. Called the Oakland Invaders. They mad it to the playoffs before the league folded in the 80s. Should make a video about it, brother.
BRING BACK !! THE OAKLAND INVADERS.
@@geraldreed3609 I'm with you on that.
@@geraldreed3609 The Invaders should relocate to San Diego or Sacramento
They are called the “flat-irons” not “fla-tirons”
For me:
The XFL division should bring back the Vegas Vipers and Orlando Guardians 1st or the Seattle Sea Dragons relocate to Portland or Albuquerque.
USFL should either bring back the New Jersey Generals and New Orleans Breakers, but since New Orleans already have the Saints, bring back Oklahoma Outlaws or Oakland Invaders.
PS, would like to see San Diego get a new football team.
Vipers were horrible in Vegas and the attendance for the Guardians in Orlando was the worst. Vipers are rumored to move to Nashville. Guardians should move to Canton
@kpowers I don't disagree, just saying they should work on some of the older teams from before the merger, and then relocate. I do see Canton getting a football team tho.
@@RodZilla19872005 Guardians in Canton makes perfect sense. I don't see the Guardians going back to Orlando or New York
@@kpowersGuardians would HAVE to change their name if they went to Canton though. Sure it's different sports, but TWO teams named Guardians within less than 100 miles of each other isn't a good idea kmo.
@@silliercrayon9588 I really don't think that would be an issue. First of all it's 2 different sports so it's Apples vs Oranges. People in Canton were going to games to see the Pittsburgh Maulers vs the New Jersey Generals. I don't think they won't go to a game because their team is called the Guardians. That's just nonsense. Don't forget St. Louis had the Cardinals for both Baseball and Football.
Leaving out Canton is insanity. Pro Football Hall of Fame, historic name in the bulldogs, and the USFL already played games there
But is there enough population base in the area to make it feasible
@@georgemocol7360 over 60,000 and right by Cleveland and Akron whose populations are more than Green Bay.
Never in a million years would Green Bay get a franchise in the NFL today
@@georgemocol7360 well great news this isn't the NFL and is not expecting the same attendance numbers. Like I said Canton is historical and dead between major cities in Ohio.
I don’t think anyone has said it was the NFL.Let’s just say Green Bay is a professional sports oddity.It is in the NFL because of early NFL history.If you are familiar with the area Green Bay itself has a population of around 100,000 and not a lot f population around it.Not saying Canton wouldn’t work but there are many factors that have to be accounted for even beyond close population.If it was just population the east coast would have multiple teams..It still all about television ratings and building a national brand
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They should put a UFL team in the Oakland coliseum
The NFL has had two leagues that they financed as minor league systems, and both lost lots of money. The NFL currently has a really good minor league system named "college football" and does not need to finance any minor league system. They don't need the CFL, Arena, or the UFL.
I think Portland Oregon would be a perfect location for a UFL franchise. Why not and maybe South Dakota too
Eugene, Oregon would fit the billing as well. Alot of branding can be done with that local area and can host games at Autzen Stadium.
Sacramento 132,000? Where’d you get this number from. Elk Grove a suburb that borders Sacramento at the south has almost 200,000 alone
Yea, Sacto alone is 528,000 not counting any of the suburbs. The area is probably really close to a million (if not more)
Why would they choose Boulder, Colorado over Orlando, Florida for a team? You are heavily invested in Coach Prime's success or failure with the Colorado Buffaloes.
For the USFL division, definitely Oakland at a renovated Oakland Coliseum. XFL division, as you need a team in the east to balance out the regions - I'd put one in Charleston, South Carolina at Williams-Brice Stadium.
This guy is talking like Sacramento and Oakland are apart of the same area. Most likely Sacramento getting a team over Oakland based on venue viablity. The old Oakland A's baseball stadium is going to be demolished because the team is moving to Las Vegas. I dont any other options in Oakland.
I came to say the same thing. I was hoping he'd talk about the Kings, Monarchs, Surge and Gold Miners.
I think they will bring in teams from the xfl and the usfl back
I don't know why people keep on coming up with new team names. More than likely UFL will use the names of the former USFL teams (including the 80's team in which FOX owns all the rights) and the XFL 2020 teams
Pittsburgh needs the Maulers to come back in Pittsburgh not Ohio
I don't want them here because there's really no buzz for them. On top of that, where are they going to play? Can't play at heinz field. Summers and late springs in pittsburgh are for soccer baseball and concerts. Not a stupid spring football club. Columbus would be a better spot for the maulers.
No Canton Bulldogs over Pittsburgh Maulers everyday of the week and twice on Sundays
They shoukd bring back the original xfl teams from 2001 and the rest of the usfl teams from the 80s
I think Charlotte, Louisville and St. Paul would be good. Richmond VA, Omaha NE and Oklahoma City would be great options as well.
This was a very good merged opening year for spring football.They have a lot to build on.Hopefully in time they will be able to sell individual franchises.That would allow certain owners to take the next step and become something more than a feeder for the NFL.The NFL monopoly and definitely the American public deserve some competition.But for the UFL its evolution,not revolution.
The names you suggested for Portland don't actually fit too well up here. Bobcats is the most fitting, but I think psychologically most of us would still end up thinking of the old name for Charlotte's NBA team. Lynx is better though less fitting given how elusive they are, and honestly I can't recall if they're even here (but I'm sure they are), otherwise I really love the idea of either Cougars or Chinooks.
I think that people who want expansion teams need to approach their city leaders and lobby for a UFL team.
This League is operating like a NCAA Division II organization. No advertising, which host cities hardly knew the teams exist. No ties/sponsorships with the NFL. No NIL Level visibility, marketing of players/commercial products; nor, real push to highlight league(UFL) apparel. Need a Prime Time Friday Night Game, a Late Afternoon Saturday game, to avoid some of college basketball key matchups & local college programs games, which hurt Memphis, Houston, & Birmingham attendance, and wrap up the weekend with the regular Sunday two game broadcast, at slightly later start times.
However, this league needs to expand by 4 teams, not only for more visible content/product; but, 8 teams looks & gives the impression of a less than low-level Minor League vibe. The needs to do a real market study of viable cities & approach to the population of those cities. Two cities that come to mind, right off the bat are Oklahoma City(Norman) and Canton....possibly Louisville as a third city, Baltimore as a crosstown rival to DC, maybe.
The kicker is broadcasting. With a twelve-team league, the league can put together a network package, similar to the NFL Sunday Ticket, with the ABC/Fox networks, streaming on UA-cam TV where as, the UFL have 6 game every week, for 10 weeks, at a compatible marketed share price.... for the sake of argument, let's say for an example: $39.99 for the package(all 40 Sunday games), $49.99 with RedZone/4-Screen Sneak-Peek. The League would maintain one Prime Time game on Friday Night, rotated between ABC(5 games)/Fox(5 games). One National broadcast game mid-Sunday afternoon on a rotating basis with ABC(5)/Fox(5). The other 4 remaining games, played simultaneously, mid-Sunday afternoon on RedZone/4-Screen Sneak-Peek...with kick start time at 3:15p et/2:15p ct...broadcast start at 3p et/2p ct & broadcast end at 6:30p et/5:30p ct, unless overages. Obviously, when one network feature the Friday Night Prime Time Game, the other network partner broadcast the Sunday National Televised Game. The other Four game, split broadcasting rights between the two networks, ABC/Fox coverage, streamed on UA-cam TV RedZone/4-Screen Sneak-Peek. This can help the league generate more revenue, from package sells & Ads; and maybe, help marginally increase UA-cam TVs Subscriptions some.
This league needs to convey a more big-boy business operation plan, as if they are an SEC/B10 knock off alternative to minor league football. Now as for the schedule for a 12-Team League...this is where the league needs to temporarily, think outside the box, for the time being, until the time come, hopefully, where the League can expand to 16 Teams. Forget this USFL/XFL Division format...time to move past that, at least for now. Set up 3 Divisions of 4 Teams each, based on naturally geographic proximity/regional rival. Each Team play 6 Division games, home & home, against their divisional rival. 2 games, one home/one away, against two opponents of one Division...the same against the other Division. Rotate opponents every two years...if the League can last that long. 6 Team Playoffs format, where as, 3 Division winners & 3 Wildcards(regardless of division affiliate). Top two teams gets a bye, for 1st Round Wildcard Weekend....3rd division winner(3-seed) host the 6th seed and the top wildcard team(4th-seed) host the 5th seed. 2nd Round Divisional Playoff Game feature the top team(1st-seed) hosting the lowest seeded team that advance and the 2nd seed team hosting the other team that advance. Championship Game feature the two remaining teams that advance. Again, ABC/Fox split televised playoff games....networks bid on televising the Championship Game. All post-season kick times TBD....probably on a Saturdays/Sundays, at that time of the year, when March Madness is long gone.
Canton, Louisville, Sacramento, Portland, San Degio and Omaha
Are some cities i think would be good
Portland!!!!
For Oakland I think Invaders would fit best...Bay Area Invaders...covers san Jose San Francisco, and Oakland. For San Diego I would go SD Cruisers(california cruisin). SD Destroyers(military town). SD Riptide(surf town). Sea Lions is more San Francisco to me.
You bring up a huge point, being that Oakland and San Diego are ABSOLUTE MUSTS before any other locales are considered for UFL expansion; Oakland could be called the Bay Area Bombers, while there may be ownership issues with the San Diego Fleet name, San Diego Armada sounds like a good alternative.......
Please don't refer to it as a minor league.
How would the Baltimore Enforcers sound for a UFL expansion team? A UFL team from Baltimore with the black 🖤, blue-ish purple 💙💜, silver 🥈, with the straight forward fist, and the raven head in the middle, and the B behind the raven's eye. 🤜🐦⬛B
Fresno California
Canton, Ohio......Birth place of Professoinal football
i agree with your selections, the colorado gold was an usfl team in denver,how ever i would relocate them to one of the cities you mentioned, like wise tulsa hosted the oklahoma outlaws of the usfl, other locations in the west omaha, boise, saltlakecity,tucson,albuquerque, austin, and the big sky the big sky states of north and south dakota,or montana, smaller markets yes, but college football hotbeds, and could they go worse, attracting fans than houston,arlington,or detroit? in the east , midwest,and south..louisville, norfolk virginia beach area, raleigh, charleston,myrtle beach, or savannah, mobile, chattanooga, syracuse,canton,, madison wi, and des moines, and grand rapids..some are smaller markets, but i think they would actually want a team to call their own
I hope for a UFL team here in Indianapolis. It’s a football crazy state, and a UFL team would have little competition that time of year.
Buy the rights to the Ohio Glory, and they can play in Canton.
Bring back the Denver Gold, and Philadelphia Stars, and Houston Gamblers, and New Jersey Generals, along with the Los Angeles Express, and Chicago Blitz.
I sat do a full mega video where you list 12 cities both lost to the merger or coming into the league where you would have teams. I say the UFL can only add but so many teams (there isn't enough Arm Talent to support 20 good minor league teams let alone 32 of them) 10 in the West, 10 in the East, 5 to each division
Seattle, Bay Area, LA, San Diego, Arizona, Atlanta. Move Michigan and move Memphis
Name the Boulder team the Colorado Centennials.
Seattle was a great market for the XFL. Bring back their team and put one in Portland.
I would bring 2 usfl teams and 1 xfl teams and 1 AAF team back
USFL New Orleans Breakers,Tampa Bay Bandits
XFL
Orlando Guardians
AAF
Atlanta Legends
Move Memphis to Virginia Beach if they have another year of not many fans in the stadium
San Diego pls
I can see Portland and Oklahoma
Flat Irons 😂
Portland Rioters or Portland Riot?
Portland Protesters!
@@JosephRocco-mi4cm How much you want to bet the original guy is a far righter that lives in the south?
Edit: CALLED IT, he lives in kansas city LMAO. These idiots are so predictable.
The UFL...Jesus Christ WHEN will these stupid leagues just STOP wasting time?
This garbage will fold well before their next season begins. They can spin the numbers all they want but attendance is laughable compared to even the worst NFL clubs and TV viewership of course will be sort-of not-bad during warmer months.
What else is on? Lousy baseball...reruns of hundreds of shows nobody watched in the Spring?
No way will a UFL team go to California or NY with the current tax situation. The only reason NY has any NFL team is because they are both located across the bridge in New Jersey, allowing them to bypass the taxes of insanely high taxes of being in the actual city. Plus now they have to worry about valuations of worth for legal reasons after that bs Trump case that chased away billions in new manufacturing facilities. California, they pay Mc Ds employees $20 a hour, to then take back over 1/3 in taxes, which should say enough. But even sales taxes are screwed there and high. Such as if in rural area the sales tax is a high 7.25%, but if in a city the right was given to add another 1% making it 8.25%. Teams leave California consistently because the government won’t support them at all due to liberal ideals not wanting owners to make money. To me the two expansion cities would be simple. Seattle due to demand and the fact it is already established in the XFL to be successful enough to build there. Then we need a team in Virginia, likely in northern Virginia, such as Norfolk, Hampton, or Charlottesville. But the Washington Commanders might move there first from the news stories.
Avoid California at all cost. The economy there doesn't lend itself well to another sports team. There is a reason why the Raiders left Oakland. Expand to 10 teams, and for geographical reasons, in Oklahoma and New Mexico or Colorado.
As someone that lives in Portland, I appreciate the respect but it would never work here. People here just largely don't care about football nor baseball. Sports culture is really different in the pacific northwest, hence why the only pro sport all three large PNW cities have is soccer. (Portland timbers, seattle sounders, and vancouver whitecaps) Before someone mention the ducks fanbase, that's Eugene's team 3 hours south in a college city. Portland itself doesn't care much about the ducks, or college sports in general.
Really the only new pro team that would instantly do well in Portland is hockey. To be frank it's amazing we don't have an NHL team some how. Paul allen tried to buy the coyotes for years, the blazers stadium is set up for hockey and the winterhawks already play in there, it has the interest and winter sports culture for it, just weird.
The names picked for portland wouldn't really fit, especially compared to our other pro teams. Portland Trail Blazers and Portland Timbers are fantastic names that fit. Even our G-league team has an AWESOME name of Rip City Remix. I don't think portland when I hear bobcats or flying squirrels. We also don't have a lot of snakes. Wetwoods is...weird as that's not a common term but you're on the right track with that one. Something to do with the cacades, temperate rainforests, or even the progressive nature of the city would fit better.
Little nitpick, it makes sense to show the metro population rather than city population. Portland metro is 2.4 million, a lot larger than the 635k number would lead people to believe.
If the UFL expands they are going to bring back teams like the Seattle Sea Dragons and the New Orleans Breakers because they are teams that are successful and already has fans
I'd suggest Louisville. They're really lacking is sports.
California's economy is so weak that even McDonald's is disgusting closing shop in the state. Expanding into California is suicide.
move the season to start in May.
The season would be moved forward more so than backwards. The UFL wants its players to have an opportunity to be invited to NFL functions such as OTAs and training camp which start mid-July. Plus, it is a lot cooler beginning earlier than in May where it is already getting hot and into June which is really hot.
@@barryshuck1746 Most NFL fans are NBA fans as well. From March madness to basically May 7th fans are going to (MBA games) , or watching it on TV.
How about a expansion team in Albuquerque New Mexico or Tallahassee Florida?
Expansion will just make a trash league even worse.
We're talking about expansion for the UFL not the nfl
@@Fourmath Where you gonna find QBs and good Offensive Linemen to play, if the UFL expands
@davidbuswa9425 Through their yearly combines and getting free agents
@@Fourmath Those are glorified tryouts. Even you can get a tryout if you pay for the admission for it. The UFL doesn't have a college draft. All the UFL coaching staffs hasn't developed a star QB. The UFL missed out on Taulia Tagivaloia(sic). He chose the CFL over the UFL, probably on the advice of his old high school coach June Jones