#ufl — Public Fediverse posts
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As the #UFL dropped two franchises in realignment efforts, the alternative professional football league announced plans for expansion in the near future:
https://www.profootballrumors.com/2026/08/ufl-looking-to-expand-after-realignment
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UFL co-owner Mike Repole did confirm that both Birmingham and Houston teams will be relocated for 2027.
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It was certainly fun. Unfortunately we couldn’t pull it out. But it was a heck of a season.
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Welp that will do it. Good try boys, hard to win with your 3rd string QB #UFL #DefendTheDMV #Defenders
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Nice play DC, way to blast the QB and grab the int #UFL #DefendTheDMV #Defenders
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Go Defenders #UFL #DefendTheDMV #Defenders
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At the United Bowl!
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Happy gameday to those who celebrate!
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I don’t have the ratings yet for the ABC game, but FOX averaged 1.167 million viewers for the Louisville Kings vs St. Louis Battlehawks UFL Playoff game. Very respectable.
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Louisville and DC in the UFL Championship! Let’s go!!!
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And the DC Defenders are going to the United Bowl!
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Happy game day to those who celebrate.
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Cameraman Left Bloodied After Collision with Player During UFL Game https://petapixel.com/2026/06/03/cameraman-left-bloodied-after-collision-with-player-during-ufl-game/ #cameraoperator #livebroadcast #cameraman #foxsports #football #injury #News #ufl
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Stupid Defenders doing their best Commanders impression.
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#CFL’s $500M broadcasting deal with TSN, DAZN, and YouTube really just punctured the air in #UFL’s tires.
The raw math of the CFL’s deal is a wake-up call. The CFL is netting roughly $61 million USD ($83.3M CAD) annually in pure cash rights fees for a 9-team league.
And that’s because UFL’s global streaming strategy just got copy-pasted. The UFL actually pioneered the exact international strategy DAZN is deploying for the CFL. The UFL signed a global deal with DAZN to stream all of their games completely for free on DAZN’s global tier outside of North America to build a top-of-funnel audience.
Now CFL is using UFL’s blueprint for a $500M payout.
What this means is that, before a single CFL team sells a single ticket, their entire C$5.5 million player salary cap is now completely covered. Which means CFL can now aggressively outbid the UFL for elite, borderline NFL talent.
If a premium quarterback or a dominant edge-rusher is weighing a flat $65,000 contract in the UFL versus a multi-year, C$200,000 to C$450,000 deal in a financially insulated CFL, Canada becomes the vastly superior career destination.
Sure, UFL offers a brief 10 week springboard to the #NFL. And that’s a nice option. But some of those UFL players aren’t going to the NFL. Their next destination will be the CFL.
#football
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According to CBC, the #CFL’s new broadcast agreement is worth $500M, which is leagues better than any broadcast deal they had previously.
Not only does this stabilize the league, it makes it primed for expansion. And I’m telling you now, when it comes to #football, CFL is now a bigger destination than the #UFL.
It’s nowhere near as big as the #NFL but certainly no longer small league anymore.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-broadcast-deal-may-2026-9.7214764
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I haven’t said this in the last two weeks and we’ve lost so I’m saying it now: happy game day to those who celebrate.
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The DC Defenders scored first. Then I turned the game on and Louisville scored 13 unanswered.
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We are 31 seconds in to this UFL game and it’s tied at 7.
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#UFL isn’t doing too well.
The league is playing to empty stadiums. Which is too bad because I think they play exciting #football.
But because it’s failing, you get lots of UFL fans asking about their team joining the #CFL. And I get it. If you’re from St. Louis, why wouldn’t you want a football team in a stable league—one unlikely to disappear overnight?
Yet this is just a fundamentally bad idea for numerous reasons. The biggest reason is that it’s been tried before. In the best situation, NFL sees American CFL teams as a cheap test market, and they move in the moment they see success. This is exactly what happened with the Baltimore Stallions.
I think CFL should expand in Canada before even contemplating the USA. Get teams in Quebec City and Halifax. Other potential markets are Kitchener, Thunder Bay, Kelowna, and Victoria. Perhaps a dark horse candidate could be Windsor or St. John’s.
Inside Canada, I can see CFL feasibly expanding to 16 teams—though it likely won’t. But after they maximize the Canadian market, then maybe they can contemplate the USA.
But if they do so, they should target American border communities first. None of these Southern states that already have big NCAA teams. That will be immediately disastrous.
Instead, target cities like Rochester, Fargo, and Portland, Oregon. All these cities are hungry for football, are big enough to support a pro sports franchise, yet will likely never have an NFL team.
Rochester had an NFL team—one of the original NFL teams, in fact. Back in the 1920s, they were the home to the Jeffersons. The CFL would do well here.
Fargo is could basically be the “American Saskatchewan”. Lots of football talent over here. And the Fargodome can easily host a CFL team.
Portland, Oregon works so well because they’ve been scorned by the NFL for decades, are hungry for a pro team, and they’ve shown great support for the Timbers and Trail Blazers.
More importantly, none of these cities will blink if they have to face an Edmonton or Hamilton. It won’t be weird for them—any more than it’s weird for a junior hockey team to play in the CHL.
Nevertheless, I don’t see many American teams in the CFL. Perhaps three at the most. Anything more and there will be terrible imbalance.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFL/comments/1ta39k5/if_the_ufl_folded_what_would_your_reaction_be_to/
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Dean Blandino has been the player of the game for Louisville.
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The Defenders doing their best Commanders impersonation today.
