About the UFL
The UFL provides high-quality professional football during a traditional fall season while embracing innovation and fan interaction. The UFL serves its local communities with pride and dedication, and aims to provide every fan with an exciting and memorable game experience. The inaugural 2009 champion Las Vegas Locos will battle the Florida Tuskers, Hartford Colonials, Omaha Nighthawks and Sacramento Mountain Lions for the William Hambrecht Trophy in 2010. UFL Virginia was launched in the summer of 2010 to begin play in the fall of 2011. The UFL will continue to grow in 2011 and beyond.
The UFL is owned by a consortium of private investors, including William Hambrecht of WR Hambrecht + Co and aol CEO Tim Armstrong, who founded the league. Paul Pelosi, William Mayer, Mark Cuban and other investors are also part of the UFL ownership team.
In 2009 UFL games were nationally broadcast on VERSUS and HDNet, as well as webcast on UFL-Football.com. During the upcoming season our games will again be telecast, and webcast, nationally in high definition.
UFL Mission Statement
"The UFL provides high-quality professional football during a traditional fall season while embracing innovation and fan interaction. The UFL serves its local communities with pride and dedication, and aims to provide every fan with an exciting and memorable game experience. The inaugural 2009 champion Las Vegas Locos will battle the Florida Tuskers, Hartford Colonials, Omaha Nighthawks and Sacramento Mountain Lions for the William Hambrecht Trophy in 2010. The UFL is led by Commissioner Michael Huyghue and is funded by a consortium of private investors."
History of the UFL
In the mid-‘90s when the Los Angeles Rams moved to St. Louis and the Houston Oilers moved to Nashville, Bill Hambrecht was mystified. It was illogical that NFL teams would be leaving two of the largest and best growth markets in the country. From a marketing angle, he knew there was room for more football teams. In conversations during this same period with coaching legend Bill Walsh, Hambrecht realized that there were lots of really good football players who could not fit onto NFL rosters.
Fast forward ten years and this idea has now become a reality as the United Football League played its “Premiere” season during the fall of 2009 and is currently preparing for a second season set to kickoff in September of 2010.
Although the UFL first reached the public spotlight in an article in The New York Times Magazine on June 3, 2007, Hambrecht was years into planning his disruptive business model for a professional football league that would complement the NFL. Many, if not all, of the core tenets on which the League was conceived still remain today. The basic principles of the Hambrecht model was to provide quality football at affordable prices in underserved markets. The average ticket price for a UFL game is $20.
