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On August 23, 2008, a press conference revealed plans for the New USFL, founded by Southern California businessman Michael Dwyer, planning to start play in Spring of 2010. Tom Shapiro, former Assistant City Attorney of Santa Barbara, California was hired as Commissioner.
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 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.
The USFL is relaunching in 2022, four decades after the spring football league's short-lived run that featured such stars as Reggie White, Herschel Walker, Steve Young, Jim Kelly and future ...
Teams also end up play in Sarnia, Zaneville (Ohio Colts), Port Huron and Detroit, [32] while Toledo Tornadoes leave for the larger United Football League (1961–1964). [33] United Football League, 1961–1964; Central States Football League, 1962–1975; Atlantic Coast Football League, 1962–1971, 1973; Midwest Football League, 1962–1978
XFL co-owners Dany Garcia and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson first announced the merger on FOX NFL Sunday.
Spring football enters a new chapter in 2024, as the USFL and the XFL have formally announced plans to merge and begin play. The combined league, to be known as the United Football League, will ...