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.
Commissioner Michael Huyghue has alerted fans via Twitter that referee uniforms for the 2010 season will be “normal” – presumably in the same fashion as the NFL.
UFLAccess.com’s Xander Rich gives us quotes from several participants from Tuesday’s Florida Tuskers press conference.
Billy, Ron and Fran take a quick look at the hire of Jay Gruden as the new Florida Tuskers head coach.
UFLAccess.com News Director Dusty Sloan takes a look at today’s Florida Tuskers press conference. Watch for more stories to come, including Xander Rich’s first-hand account from the press conference and more analysis from the UFLAccess.com staff.
Dusty Sloan weighs in: Many United Football League fans have their eyes and ears trained on the ongoing labor unrest in the National Football League as a potential springboard for UFL growth. But more immediately, the UFL might have a chance to better itself thanks to the labor problems going on north of the border. (Image, left, property of the CFL.)
The organization of the United Football League’s “Premiere Season” is such that it is unwise to grade the league on many of the normal parameters of the success or failure of a sports venture. The “Premiere Season” launched with little fanfare and with little media backing as part of an overall plan for this season to be the marketing for the league moving forward, meaning the success or failure of the opening season was meant to be graded different internally then many outside prognosticators would guess.
Image, left, property of the United Football League