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The Showboats name and branding is based on the original Memphis Showboats of the original United States Football League.On November 15, 2022, it was announced that the Showboats were joining the United States Football League (USFL) to fill the Tampa Bay Bandits' spot after the team announced their hiatus for the 2023 USFL season. [2]
The Showboats' attendance figures made Dunavant a supporter of the USFL's move to the fall. Although Memphis was only a medium-sized market (while Memphis proper had 650,000 people, the surrounding suburbs and rural areas are not much larger than the city itself), Dunavant believed his team's popularity would have made it very attractive to the ...
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. [23]
It was Memphis' fourth straight loss, a disappointing mark that leaves the Showboats at 1-4 halfway through the season. They are tied for last place in the USFL Conference, two games out of a ...
The Showboats are one of eight teams in the newly formed UFL, the result of the merger between the XFL and USFL. In terms of attendance numbers, Memphis is up against it on a few levels — unlike ...
The UFL announced the full schedule for its inaugural season on Monday morning.
The 2023 season was the Memphis Showboats' inaugural season in the United States Football League, their first at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium, and their first under the head coach/general manager tandem of Todd Haley and Dave Razzano.