UFL expansion projection 

I wouldn't go to cities that already have a NFL team.

I'm betting the Seattle Sea Dragons would be the first team brought back.

United Football League 1. LA Express - SoFi Stadium 2. LA Wildcats - Los Angeles Coliseum 3. Chicago Enforcers - New Bears Stadium 4. New England Force - Patriots Stadium 5. Miami Maniax - Hard Rock Stadium 6. Baltimore Blitz - M&T Bank Stadium 7. Denver Gold Diggers - Empower Field at Mile High 8. TB Bandits - Raymond James Stadium 9. Dallas Gunslingers - AT&T Stadium 10. Houston Gamblers - NRG Stadium 11. Jacksonville Black Bulls - New Jaguars Dome 12. SF Demons - 49ers Stadium 13. SD Xtreme - Snapdragon Stadium 14. Seattle Sea Dragons - Lumen Field 15. Arizona Hotshots - State Farm Stadium 16. Pittsburgh Maulers - Acrisure Arena (Steelers Stadium) 17. Philadelphia Stars - Eagles Field 18. NJ Generals - MetLife Stadium 19. New Orleans Breakers - Caesars Superdome 20. Orlando Guardians - Camping World Stadium 21. Vegas Vipers - Allegiant Arena (LV Raiders Stadium) 22. Kansas City Rage - Arrowhead Arena (Chiefs Stadium) 23. NY Hitmen - West Side Stadium

San Diego = The Fleet

They cut actual USFL franchises with history to make this merger. Those teams need to be brought back first.

This one of the best UFL expansion videos I’ve seen. I would like to see the UFL go into those Non-NFL markets like Omaha,OKC,Louisville and San Diego fast. Especially OKC and Omaha since they’re not far from the Dallas Hub.

The Salt Lake City Polygamists, is my recommendation

I do hope the UFL will be a permanent fixture and will partner up with the NFL. I would like to see what FOX and the USFL were trying to do and bring back all the former USFL teams. I know it will probably take up to 10-15 years with future expansion. Well, this is what I wish the UFL would eventually be like with a league of 28 teams. Once again there would be 2 Conferences, the USFL conference and the XFL conference. Each conference would have 14 teams in them with 2 divisions (with 7 teams in them). The USFL conferences 2 divisions would be the North and South divisions. The North division would consist of the Chicago Blitz, Denver Gold, Hartford Federals (formerly the Washington Federals), Michigan Panthers, New Jersey Generals, Philadelphia Stars, and the Pittsburgh Maulers. The south division would be the Austin Gamblers (formerly the Houston Gamblers), Birmingham Stallions, Jacksonville Bulls, Memphis Showboats, New Orleans Breakers, Orlando Warriors (formerly the Orlando Renegades), and the Tampa Bay Bandits. The XFL conference would have the East and West divisions. The East division would consist of the Arlington Renegades, DC Defenders, Houston Roughnecks, Ohio Guardians (formerly the Orlando Guardians, and yes they play in Canton Ohio), Oklahoma Outlaws, San Antonio Brahmas, and the St. Louis Battlehawks. The West division would consist of the Arizona Wranglers, Los Angeles Express, Portland Vipers (formerly the Vegas Vipers), Salt Lake City Gunslingers (formerly the San Antonio Gunslingers), San Diego Wildcats (formerly the LA Wildcats), Seattle Sea Dragons and the Oakland Invaders (it would probably be San Jose or Sacramento, Northern California for sure for the Invaders since the stadium in Oakland is in dire need of repairs). I know there will be people saying the San Diego team should be the Fleet but that was an AAF team (and the UFL does not have the rights to them) and besides the USFL/XFL would rather bring back the Express and Wildcats. The regular season would be a 13-game season

I would like the UFL to acquire the teams from the AAF and the original UFL. So Maybe teams like Omaha Nighthawks, Atlanta Legends, San Diego Fleet, Orlando Apollos, Salt Lake Stallions, Arizona Hotshots, etc. Make it like a true collection of the spring leagues.

I really dislike people that propose expansion teams without taking into consideration logistics, costs, and considerations on whether there is sufficient interest for a sub-NFL team. Will the Chicago Blitz actually have an affordable venue and fans willing to root for someone other than the Bears? BTW, Allegiant will not host a non-Raiders team, nor can any team use Sam Boyd Stadium for football due to contractual arrangements WITH Allegiant. It's why the Vipers ended up in the parking lot that was Cashman.

I think they should give teams to larger cities and less large cities that don't have an NFL team(ex. Sacramento instead of somewhere in the Bay area).

Hartford Colonials or Colony

What about the Utah Roadrunners? In very loose reference to the racing scene on the salt flats near the Great Salt Lake, as well as to the Road Runner from the Looney Tunes series.

Seattle needs to be brought back immediately imo

The only issue I have with this is that with a league bigger than 20 teams, you'll have to run about 16-18 games, which can run you right smack dab into scheduling conflicts with the NFL. For me, ideally, the UFL can have a maximum of 20 teams, and can run a 14 game schedule. This gives you time for playoffs, and, more importantly, time to breathe between leagues. If what they're saying is true and they'll slowly revive brands in the next couple years, here's how I'd expand the league to 20: 2025: NJ Generals & NY Guardians (both in Metlife or Red Bull Arena); Philadelphia Stars, Seattle Dragons 2026: Portland Breakers, San Diego Tomcats, Chicago Enforcers/Cyclones, Orlando Pioneers/Cougars 2030s-ish: Columbus Cardinals, San Jose Grizzlies, Milwaukee Hogs, Oklahoma City Drillers

How about Albuquerque Thunderbirds

(SACK)ramento needs one because the word there in parenthesis is a football stat

For me personally, outside of the obvious Seattle Dragons (cut the Sea part out lol) and San Diego being a potential St. Louis of the west coast, I’d want to see an expansion team in Mexico, Canada, and possibly Puerto Rico. I think going international would be a great way to open new markets and revenue streams on tv rights that can take advantage of the work that the NFL has already done while also doing something that even the NFL isn’t doing with an international team.

I would not put a team in Canton. I would put teams in large cities that don't have NFL teams. In Ohio, I would put a team in Columbus(over 900,000) and I would put a team in Auston, Texas (also over 900,000). I would not consider cities that have a NFL team.

i would call Salt Lake -Lake monster's

Bring back the Jacksonville Bulls. They led the USFL in attendance with over 40k per game.

I think 2 teams a year would ideal and at some point there would have to be a cut off point earlier than later. Wouldn't want the game to suffer to much do to a lack of talent. However, I'm curious... Do you think it would take that long to expand out west and into Florida ?

MINNESOTA MASTODONS

New Orleans would support the UFL, but they have to play at one of the smaller outdoor stadiums to really get a good atmosphere going IMO. Tad Gormley Stadium would be a great, scenic spot to catch a game but would require millions in renovations if not an outright demolish/rebuild. Yulman Stadium is a no brainer but IIRC has strict ordinances on what type of events and how often can be held there.

Carolina Copperheads.

Canton is too small...Ohio Bulldogs out of Columbus bigger fan base....Cleveland n Cincinnati having to join in on the fanship...

Chicago blitz louisville Redbirds San Diego fleet old aaf team name Minnesota wrecking crew Arizona wranglers sal lake city saints New Mexico 18s canton legand orando apollos

Indianapolis needs a team, when do you think they will get a team? What about the Indiana Firebirds unless they bring back the Arena Football League and give Indiana a team and bring back the Firebirds to Indiana and have them play in Indianapolis at Gainbridge Fieldhouse again, then I think they should call them either : Indy Turbo, Indy Twisters or Indy Racers or Indy Dream or Indy Allstars. What do you think their team name should?

Des Moines should get an UFL team. The Iowa Superhogs would be a cool nickname.

New Mexico no good....not enough people in the whole state to support a team.....

I think they NEED to expand to New York and it will have a football team that is actually based there

personally I think if they're going to bring back two teams each new season then it should be one XFL team return and one USFL team to be brought back each new season until all 8 of the defunct have returned creating a 16 team league

I think Milwaukee would be a good locale as well. They Have Green Bay to the north and Chicago to the south but it’s a decent market.

Atlanta Eagles

The only issue I have is that the talent pool isnt deep enough to accommodate all of these teams.

I enjoyed the team names and locations you suggested. My one thing is I think they need to move to major west coast cities faster than in your timeline. Seattle had the second best fan base in the XFL in 2020/23, if the UFL takes too long to get back there then they chance all the hype and love for spring football will be gone and replaced with resentment. If you look at any social media post from the UFL before the season kicked off almost 100% of them had several post from sad or mad Sea Dragon fans that their team didn’t survive the merger(I understand financially why but their fans miss them all the same).

Nashville Tuners? Ugh. Please no.

If they go to Ohio, it needs to be Columbus. Fastest growing city in the Midwest, biggest city in Ohio, 2nd biggest metro (bigger than Cleveland), and football CRAZY. With the league being in the spring they don't have to compete with Ohio State, and if the team signed a couple of former Buckeyes it would be supported majorly.

I would move the Renegades out of Arlington first. Move them to Oklahoma City. Still a close market not too far from its original but out of the NFL market. Plus the Renegades emblem resembles the Oklahoma Outlaws.. so it's like bringing them back.. Move the Panthers to Louisville. Kind of fitting with the Kentucky Wildcats.. I would say the Louisville Stallions because of the Derby 🐎.. but you're not relocating the Birmingham Stallions.. it's too iconic. Bring back the L.A. Wildcats but put them in San Diego since they got shafted by the NFL. San Jose instead of Oakland who got shafted and San Francisco is NFL.. but San Jose is the bigger market anyway. What used to be the San Francisco Demons that were originally to be the San Jose Demons.. stay away from the original XFL names which I don't think they are legally allowed to reiterate.. they were called the Demons because of the Diablo Valley and fault line that's in that area.. call them the San Jose Diablos. The old Pittsburgh Maulers can be the Canton Bulldogs. Again.. try to stay out of the NFL markets if you can. The Philadelphia Stars is the exception of the NFL rule. You gotta dip back into the east coast and Philly is a huge sports town.. similar to Chicago. The stars would work although I thought maybe the Canton Stars since Canton is where the Hall of Fame is and that's where all the Stars are.. idk 🤷‍♂️. New Jersey Generals is iconic and since technically New Jersey has 2 NFL teams, they claim the New York market. So branding the New Jersey market is your other East Coast team along with Washington and possibly Philly. Orlando Florida is the 4th city in Florida that doesn't have a pro football team. I thought it was a bad idea to take a team out of Florida since the majority of NFL players that have been drafted are from Florida.. a bit surprising. I agree with the Breakers.. but that team moved alot. First they were the Boston Breakers, then the New Orleans Breakers, then the Portland Breakers.. and then the New Orleans Breakers again.. since Florida got the shaft.. the Orlando Breakers is the answer. I know what I said about staying away from NFL markets.. but since the reason they took away the Sea Dragons is because they were kind of isolated, and now theres a West Coast presence.. they are no longer isolated and you need that Northwest territory.. you COULD stay out of the NFL market and go the Portland route with the Sea Dragons.. but Portland not really on the coast .. but it's close enough.. OR the Sea Dragons can be in San Jose and that frees up an extra city since 16 is what we're doing here.. I was thinking maybe the El Paso Gunslingers or El Paso Wranglers and El Paso is West TX .. it's so far away from San Antonio and the others.. it draws a market close to New Mexico and Arizona and Colorado.. But the last one and I think is important and even tho Chicago is an NFL city.. it like Philly is a huge sports town.. but it's true, it's a Bears 1st city.. Chicago is big enough for another NFL they say.. well, how about a UFL team. Idk if you can use the old XFL 2001 brands or not so the Enforcers is probably out the window. This is one I don't have a name for from the original teams . But with the absence of Michigan and Pittsburgh, needing another team in the North besides Canton is necessary.. especially the biggest market in the Midwest. And with the rivalries between Sт. Louis and Chicago sports teams and the easy travel between the two cities.. it wouldbe an XFL Conference team. Chicago is necessary... Maybe the Chicago Maulers.. 🤷‍♂️idk 🤔. Or the Chicago Guardians.. or the Gamblers.. although I would think if you were bringing back the Gamblers they would be in Vegas.. which is always an option instead of one of the others.. but we don't want to go past 16 teams. 16 is ideal for a Minor League Football League . I think it's very well placed staying out of the NFL and working the secondary markets but tapping into some of the crucial markets that would make the league thrive... Let me know what you think. And I'll post this comment on your Facebook post as well..

I said elsewhere that this league will need to expand just to fight attrition. So this isn’t an irrelevant video. But if there’s a weakness in the world of football to exploit, it’s the rising costs of playing in high school. The thing that would be different than the NFL is to have a development league; essentially academies. That means there has to be a U-19 league and a U-23 league, because football kind of requires growth to be complete instead of playing teenagers on first teams, unlike most sports. To eventually pay for that, you need a German league and a couple leagues in other countries that aren’t big rugby countries, but have the money. Japan already has a league. Potentially Mexico, believe it or not. See, most countries established laws against things like player drafts. So they’ll want to buy American players. Oh, to be more technical, they’ll buy player contracts. And I know… this is a SERIOUS gamble. No guarantees that the foreign leagues won’t wait for players to be out of contract and then just sign these kids. Otherwise, the league continues with the issues of having to rent stadiums, and NFL stadiums are too big, MLS stadiums aren’t big enough, and college stadiums are often not central to cities.

I'm a UFL writer. The Maulers imo should be back in 2025. Along with the Breakers.

I would love to see AUFL team in Omaha and Albuquerque and OKC by next year. plus there might be some relocations 'cause the attendance at some of the games have been kinda down unless it's by more than that. viewership

Great video, but my God man, those team names!! The Artifacts vs. Bowmen??? Ugh.

White Robert Hernandez Robert Young Brian

If Atlanta would get a UFL team , I would name them the Flames after former NHL team , with the logo being of course a flaming A , I think that would look good on the side of their helmets and the color of their jerseys should be red with some gold in there somewhere ( Maybe the uniform numbers or the names on the back of their jerseys . To see that flaming A logo at midfield on the 50 would look so cool .

You all seem awfully confident that the league will be around in 2036

Seattle deserves a team, Omaha beef is a cool name, Atlanta Assassins would be cool but maybe too violent, Atlantic City Aces or Gamblers,

Your projections are dead ass wrong....

Salt Lake City Polygamy's

The only way the UFL expansion works is how much of an audience they draw in this season, as well as tv viewership. I’m not saying the UFL can’t expand and draw in more football fans, but in America, the NFL draws in more football fans and the UFL has to do a lot of promotions to expand this league just to get people to come to the games and get people to also watch it on tv. Right now, the UFL is a new league that’s a work in progress and a lot of room to grow.

Great Throwback Music! Theme from "This is the USFL"! One of the only BASIC programs I wrote on my TI99/4A was that which would play this theme song!

More trash, just what we need as if we already don't have enough ways to waste time

I think the key to success is more fans at the games and that will only happen if you go to cities that don't have a NFL team. New York has 2 NFL teams plus the Bills a different part of the state, and Nashville has the Titians, plus look how poor the Showboats are doing in Memphis. Houston and Arlington are not really getting that many fans either, because the fanbase is just not hunger enough for football, they already have NFL teams. The only team in a city with an NFL team that is doing well is DC and only because they have a fun atmosphere, stadium, and team also the Redskins/Commanders are not that well loved and on a bad losing streak. The ULF has to be bold and take big risks and that means going to cities that are not as high on the TV ratings but have a better chance of really getting behind a team like St. Louis did. First off I would relocate Memphis to Omaha or Lincoln and rename them the Pioneers. Michigan I would probably move to Milwaukee keeping the name Panthers but changing the colors to black and gold, Also I put Arlington to Oakland and giving them a mostly black uniform. Then I would have 4 more teams, keeping the names Breakers and Dragons, Wildcats and putting them in Honolulu and San Diego, and Salt Lake respectably. For the new 4th team I would go this Boise and name them the Blizzard.

New Mexico: Regulators, Billy the Kid, Lincoln County wars, plus the theme song can be Warren G regulators lmao. The beginning of the song is about the same regulators from Lincoln county nm.

2025 -Seattle and Canton 2026 New Orleans and Vegas 2027 OKC and Orlando/Tampa (whichever one you want)

Hey Mr am from Atlanta Georgia I been watching the XFL games every weekend I been saying how come they Don’t have a XFL team down here in Georgia we are big sport City man if u good people at the XFL football company can bring a XFL team to Atlanta I would be happy an excited I have name that would fit the team if u guys bring team down here to Atlanta/ it would be The Atlanta SeaHawks

This video forgets the product. The UFL atrracts good football by putting good players on the field. These guys are either just cut or came up close out of college and see the UFL as a way to display their talents to NFL clubs. NFL scouts have a lot of football to watch and more teams means less likelihood for that to occur, lessening the quality of the product. Bad football means no TV money and no TV money is death.

Should give New Mexico a team

Sacramento should be the Surge in a nod to their old WLAF team. They should also bring back the Invaders but probably not to Oalkand with the state of their stadium but I could see it working if they brought them to San Jose.

Feel like maybe move the old muller to SC and change the name Maulers. To Myrtle Beach tiedel wave sc Beach south carliona clan Rebels or Turtles. Or keep both pittsbrugh teams and instead of a team in gerogia but a team in SC and have the team at Coastal carliona because the stadium right now fits the need of the capacity of a crowd then if it fan base grows then bulid or move to Columbia or Greenville. Where Clemson plays in death valley

Omaha has an NAL arena team called the Beef. Do your research before making silly projections.

Omaha Mutuals with Marlon Perkins as head coach. They can even ride into the stadium on a safari jeep!!!

I really like the optimism. Actually thinking the league will be around in 10 years 😅

They should focus on cities with football teams 1st and bring back some from the original leagues.

ABQ is too small a market with a Denver team and a Phoenix team. Especially in baseball season.

Oakland Invaders or Oakland Pirates.

How about expanding the UFL west? According to this video, I don’t see a western team in the next 4-5 years.

There aren't any Redwoods in Sacramento, that would have to be a coastal city in the bay area.

Ah, we can dream can't we? For some of those team names, I'd see if I could use some old WFL names/colors like the Jacksonville Sharks or Portland Storm or Shreveport Seamer. The Chicago Fire and New York Stars. The Stars were originally to be the Boston WFL team called the Boston Bulls. Utah can be the old Utah Stars of the ABA. I miss the old USFL Oakland Invaders and LA Express. And the Breakers were 1st in Boston. Anyway, I have no idea if the UFL will be around long enough to actually expand. I hope it finds an audience. Tough when it's basically a developmental league without any big stars. I'm a football fan who'd watch anything. I don't have to be sold. But, less hardcore fans may need name recognition. Well, in any case, I'll keep watching -expansion or not!

Atlanta Legends (AAF)

Darn Dawg it looks like I rubbed you the wrong way....truth is you have some funny names...Hitmakers??? Come on...try a little harder

Louisville muggers

Keep it as is for at least 2 years

Back The Breakers but in Portland OR

I think first you should bring back all 18 original USFL teams before bringing in brand new teams, or going in markets where there is already an NFL team. For example, the Breakers were once in Portland. There were teams in Oakland and Oklahoma too in the original USFL.

There was 2 pro football teams in Sacramento in the past, the Surge (WLAF) and the Gold Miners (CFL). Maybe they can get the rights to either name for the Sacramento team if it happens. I would probably favor Gold Miners, as Sacramento was a stop-point town (between the city of San Francisco and the nearby mining hub of Coloma) during the California Gold Rush of the late 1840s

All those who say no to New Orleans Learn your role and don't be a fool.

Several name ideas: Scottsdale salamanders Atlanta aviators Denver rockers Canton Calvary Oklahoma City wagoners Louisville jazzer

Bring Back The New Orleans Breakers

UFL football indianapolis

I hope south carolina get a team

For Louisville relocate the stallions there and then rebrand Birmingham to something else

Start by bringing back the teams that were cut

Utah Blaze

I hope some NFL team I hope will be encouraged to open a UFL franchise, and works similar to the NHL and AHL.

Los Angeles

There is no stadium for a proposed Omaha team to play in. The downtown baseball stadium was built for the College World Series and the city won't let the field get ripped up in the weeks leading to the series.

if chicago gets a team, i’ll be so hyped and will go to every home game

Love this! Everyone wants to talk expansion but honestly, if the league would last this long, this is what I think it would look like.

I’d LOVE to see a team in Albuquerque!! (Note correct spelling)

I'm hoping a team comes to North Carolina. I thought I'd have fun and come up with some unique-ish state-appropriate names: Army Frogs Aviators Cylinders Hounds Stone Masons Swarm What do you guys think? Should I be banned from all naming contests henceforth?

One thing you gotta think about is that with expansion you've gotta add a team for both the XFL and USFL. New Jersey Generals (USFL) and New York Guardians (XFL) is my prediction for the newest expansion. But I checked the Tampa Bay Bandits Instagram and am not too sure when it happened but they're called the UFLBandits instead of USFLBandits like they were when the USFL was it's own league 👀 edit: Apparently every team part of XFL and USFL has UFL(Insert team name) on their instagram. Just more surprised the Bandits and Wildcats got it.

Oakland Invaders, San Diego Thunderbolts, Omaha Blackhawks, Iowa Owls, Huntington Steel or West Virginia Mothmen, Louisville Punishers, and Charleston Sharks

The Billings Rimrocks (Montana)

That Boston Brawlers logo came from the Fall Experimental Football League in 2014. The FXFL was Brian Woods' 1st attempt at a new league before The Spring League. The logo was designed by Gridiron Labs' Dane Storrusten, who also created that Seals logo you used for San Diego (although it was originally the Sea Lions of the A11FL, which bought most of the USFL trademarks before Brian Woods and FOX did)

The main reason they wouldnt reuse the AAF name "Stallions" for a team in SLC is because its already in use in Birmingham Ive always liked the name "Salt Lake Velocity", since theyve always used the nearby Bonneville Salt Flats for land speed record attempts

Thank you for giving NJ back there team.

I think the canton bulldogs will be a team next year

Dude these markets suck. Albuquerque? Totally unrealistic. Also instead of thinking expansion at all, they should really be concerned with the attendance issues that's plagued them since day one. They merged because they were struggling to find a fan base. What we got. The same result with a new identity. Not exactly starting over fresh when you're still having many of the same issues. The ufl is only going to last 2 or 3 more years. Expansion shouldn't even be discussed here until the can pull in a profit off of their existing markets.

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