Media and locals discuss what it means to them now that the United Football League will finally provide professional football in their area.
The United Football League has just announced it will be holding a press conference in Hartford, Connecticut this upcoming Tuesday, February 16th at 11 AM EST. This presser comes on the heels of this week’s Orlando-based Florida Tuskers announcement featuring the hiring of Jay Gruden as head coach.
Several rumors in recent months have given way to a great deal of speculation regarding the possibility of the New York Sentinels relocating to Hartford for the United Football League’s second season. The issue became more widely contested after the New York Post indicated in January that the move was certain to happen.
The New York Sentinels have a new head coach, and he is a familiar face to both the Big Apple and professional football fans. Former New York Giants quarterback coach and Cleveland Browns head coach Chris Palmer has been named the Sentinels’ head coach for 2010, according to both MSG.com and ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Schefter is reporting on his Twitter feed the deal between Palmer and the United Football League to coach the Sentinels has been “done for weeks.”
Very few professional football leagues not named the National Football League or Canadian Football League get to see six years old.
No one knows what the odds are for the United Football League getting to that milestone. But it’s fun to speculate about what the UFL could look like by 2015.
Year one of the United Football League certainly had some notable moments, players that emerged with surprising talent and potential, resulting in some key signings to the NFL with success, legitimizing the UFL as a viable place to not only find truly talented players, but for athletes to sharpen their skills and quarterbacks to get playing time instead of riding the bench…. With the inception of a second year come many questions that have been on the minds of a lot of sportswriters and fans alike.
On Christmas night, I was watching the ESPN “30 for 30” documentary on the United States Football League (for the third time), and it hit me.
The United Football League has an extremely good chance to accomplish what the USFL never could – lasting non-National Football League professional football success.
The United Football League announced today that five additional UFL players have joined NFL teams. Since the UFL’s season concluded on November 27th, 18 players have been signed to NFL teams’ active roster(s) and/or practice squad(s).