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The USFL's Houston Gamblers took on the identity and home city of the XFL's Houston Roughnecks, which folded. [5] The ninth team, the Seattle Sea Dragons, were suspended instead of being folded, with the league continuing to hold a lease agreement on Lumen Field for eventual revival. [ 6 ]
The United Football League (UFL) is a professional American football high-level minor league which started play in March 2024. The league was created following the merger of the latest incarnations of the XFL and United States Football League (USFL). [3]
The 2024 XFL season was the planned third season of the rebooted XFL and the second under its new ownership group of Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, and Gerry Cardinale (RedBird Capital). 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. [1]
The USFL, meanwhile, will start up in mid-April and run into early July, meaning that the leagues will indeed be going head-to-head for the last three weeks of the XFL’s season and the first ...
The XFL and the USFL, two competing spring football leagues, will merge operations. Few details are available, from the new league's start date to its name, but the initial obvious takeaway is ...
The XFL was a professional American football minor league [2] [3] [4] consisting of eight teams located across the United States in mid-sized to major markets. It is now one of the two conferences of the United Football League (UFL), along with the United States Football League (USFL). The XFL league headquarters were in Arlington, Texas.
XFL co-owners Dany Garcia and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson first announced the merger on FOX NFL Sunday.
On September 19, 2023, Axios reported that the USFL was in advanced talks with the XFL—owned by a consortium led by Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, and RedBird Capital Partners—to create a "merger of equals" between the two leagues before the 2024 USFL season kicks off in April, with an agreement potentially announced by the end of the month. [2]