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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.
However, in a victory in name only, the USFL was awarded a judgment of just $1, which under antitrust laws, was tripled to $3. [2] This court decision effectively ended the USFL's existence. The league never played its planned 1986 season, and by the time it folded, it had lost over $163 million (equivalent to $380 million in 2023 dollars).
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.
Both conferences bear the names of leagues before them: the USFL was named after a 1980s major professional league known as the United States Football League and reached a settlement with the remaining rightsholders to that league; the XFL was a revival of a 2001 league of the same name from the same founder, Vince McMahon, who sold the league ...
XFL co-owners Dany Garcia and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson first announced the merger on FOX NFL Sunday.
In September 2023, Axios reported that the XFL was in advanced talks with the USFL to merge the two leagues prior to the start of their 2024 seasons. [12] On September 28, 2023, the XFL and USFL announced their intent to merge with details surrounding the merger to be announced at a later date. [13] The merger would also require regulatory ...
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