Scott Adamson, of the Scripps Howard News Service, has a new editorial out that explains why many football fans are beginning to pay attention to the United Football League. Excerpts below:

Oh, I have a shrine to the World Football League in the Fan Cave of my house and look back wistfully on the glory days of the United States Football League, but when you’re in NFL country you begin to realize that other leagues don’t measure up.

Still, I love an underdog, and in 2009 it’s the United Football League’s turn to try and do the improbable, if not impossible.

It’s easy to dismiss any challenger to the National Football League, especially in the current economic climate. Yet even though it faces the longest of odds, I want it to succeed.

Why?

As I’ve said before, I can’t get too much football.

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Teams in New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Orlando will play a mini-season beginning in October. Los Angeles, Hartford and Sacramento are potential expansion cities and are slated to host a couple of games.

The plan is to have six or eight teams by 2010.

Frankly I never even thought the league would get off the ground, but it has already secured a TV contract with Versus and is expected to start naming players in the next few weeks.

Games will be played on Thursdays and Fridays with a national game of the week set for Thursday nights.

History suggests the UFL will likely be a one-and-done league — an organization that will be little more than a trivia question in a few years.

But like the other upstarts that came before, I’ll be rooting for it — hoping it can prove fans with an appetite for pro football can enjoy leftovers as well as the main course.

Source: Scripps Howard

It is well worth a read. Chime in on the UFL Access forums!