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The USFL held its 1983, 1985 and 1986 college drafts at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York. The 1984 draft was held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. The 1983–85 drafts were in January while the 1986 draft was held in May. The USFL held an expansion draft in September 1983 for the 6 expansion teams that started play in 1984.
On January 25, 2022, the city of Birmingham announced that the league headquarters would be in Birmingham, and all games of the 2022 USFL season would be played at Protective Stadium and Legion Field. The first game was played on April 16, 2022, between the Birmingham Stallions and the New Jersey Generals at Protective Stadium.
The season was suppose run from February through June as a sixteen-game season with no pre-season games (similar to the old World Football League), while championship game was supposed to be played at the end of June, with an aim to avoid any overlap with the NFL schedule. [6] Dywer announced 12 target states for USFL teams in 2008.
Teams also end up play in Sarnia, Zaneville (Ohio Colts), Port Huron and Detroit, [29] while Toledo Tornadoes leave for the larger United Football League (1961–1964). [30] United Football League, 1961–1964; Central States Football League, 1962–1975; Atlantic Coast Football League, 1962–1971, 1973; Midwest Football League, 1962–1978
The United States Football League (USFL) was a professional American football minor league [4] [5] that played two seasons from 2022 to 2023. It is now one of the two-component conferences of the United Football League (UFL), along with the XFL. The USFL was founded as a standalone league in 2022.
The USFL expanded to four home cities, adding Memphis, Tennessee (backed by former Memphis Mad Dogs owner Fred Smith [21]) and Detroit, Michigan, [22] to Birmingham and Canton, with each city hosting two teams, while the XFL moved three of its eight teams to new cities and held all eight teams' practices at a hub in Arlington, Texas.
Going Long: The Wild Ten-Year Saga of the Renegade American Football League In the Words of Those Who Lived It. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-141849-0. Shamsky, Art; Barry Zeman (2004). The Magnificent Seasons: How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports History and Uplifted a City and the Country. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 0-312-33358-7.
The team was founded by Vince McMahon’s Alpha Entertainment and was an owned-and-operated member of the second XFL. The Wildcats played their home games at Dignity Health Sports Park . On March 8, 2020, the Wildcats played their final game against the Tampa Bay Vipers , which was the final XFL game before the league suspended operations due ...