The United Football League today announced that HDNet will provide exclusive, broadcast coverage of five of the League’s “Premiere” season games.  HDNet will air live weekly games beginning on Saturday, October 10th at 7:00 PM Eastern. 

Bill Hambrecht, AOL Chairman Tim Armstrong, and other wealthy investors say they want the UFL to be Off Broadway to the NFL's Broadway

I have uncovered something amazing, something apparently no one has caught on to yet. That is simply this, the UFL will actually make the NFL better.

As a frequent writer on the UFL, I'm often asked why I believe that this league will thrive where others have withered, and I go through the motions, the shared opinions of many about the media markets, some mid-week football, a place where fringe players get a place to perform.

All of these things I believe are valid arguments, however there is one area that I don't cover that I perhaps should.

That being the commissioner of the new UFL, Michael Huyghue.

 

Gimmickry was the common thread among the upstart—and failed—pro football leagues of recent decades. The USFL blazed new trails in gaudy uniform design and with a spring-summer schedule. The Arena League (now on hiatus) took the game indoors. The XFL introduced the world to Huddle Cams, scrums for possession instead of coin tosses and a cartoonishly violent game that dispensed with unnecessary roughness penalties and fair catches.