Ridiculous. Here is the full text of their boilerplate email response (I have received several, followed by personal responses):

“Thank you for your interest in the UFL. We have received your email and a member of our Public Relations department will review and respond accordingly to your inquiry. Please continue to check http://www.ufl-football.com and sign up for our newsletter to keep abreast of the latest news about the UFL.

~United Football League

“WE DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED SUBMISSIONS. YOUR EMAIL WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT READING IT. BELOW IS OUR SUBMISSIONS POLICY:

It is the policy of the UFL not to accept any unsolicited material, information, suggestions, ideas, concepts, drawings, designs, schematics, artwork, music, graphical matter, know-how, techniques, questions, comments and other communications or content, or other works (“Unsolicited Submissions”) submitted, transmitted, emailed, posted or otherwise provided to the UFL. In the event that you provide the UFL and its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, and related parties with any Unsolicited Submissions, you acknowledge that (i) you have no rights in the Unsolicited Submissions; (ii) all Unsolicited Submissions become the property of the UFL; and (ii) the UFL and its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, and related parties may use such Unsolicited Submissions in any manner in any form or media now known or hereafter developed for commercial or non-commercial purposes without limitation and in the UFL’s sole discretion. You must not make any such Unsolicited Submissions to the UFL through this website or otherwise if you expect any compensation or acknowledgement for them.

You agree that you are not entitled to any compensation, credit or notice whatsoever of any use by the UFL and its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, and related parties and that by providing an Unsolicited Submission you waive the right to make any claim against the UFL and its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, and related parties related to Unsolicited Submissions.”

True, the first part is misleading (they DO accept unsolicited emails), but they follow it up with a detailed explanation of their need to protect themselves from anyone soliciting material they have not requested. I know this because I have dealt with them personally. The deadspin piece was a hatchet job.

That is completely ridiculous. Some people just have too much time on their hands!

Just another story in a long line of lies being portrayed about the UFL. First, it was the uniforms. Then it was the amount of teams, then amount of games, then amount of fans. Then, it was the amount(or lack of)press coverage. Yet, these claims are being made by the press. I’ve about had it with members of the media bashing this league just because it doesn’t show up on the main page of espn.com. I’ll have much more to say about this soon.
I’ve already had conversations with some of the local media here in Orlando. I’ve been on at least 3 different radio shows defending the UFL and dispelling some of the continually repeated rumors about the league. I guess if you’re not drawing 70,000 people each game in your first year, no radio personalities want to talk about you. But like I said in my article, the fans don’t seem to care nearly about the infantile, trivial garbage that some loud-mouthed members of the local media have had to cry about.
My question is this: next year, when there’s two more teams, more games(thus, more home games to throw out the “there’s only 2 games at the Citrus Bowl” whinefest), more marketing, different uniforms and more people showing up to the games, what will be the next string of invented problems that will cause these morons to complain? For guys that complain about not hearing anything about the league, they sure seem to know a lot about it, considering none of the three shows I called went to a single game – none. That’s not miseducation, it’s ignorance.

I’ve been the UFL biggest critic and Im hardly a fan but, I find this alomst impossible to believe.