All Hail the UFL!

I really miss the USFL. Why? Because Michigan had the Panthers and they were a legitimate football team that could have beaten the Lions like a kettle drum...much like everybody does now. In fact, I'm willing to bet that even now, 25 years later, the Lions wouldn't be able to stop a deep Hebert to AC pass.

ESPN Page 2 discusses the new upstart football league which has the audacity of playing in the fall.

The UFL only has four teams. They are really keeping it small, which is allowing them to avoid the same downfalls of the old USFL. The old USFL expanded way too quickly. Moving from eight teams its first year to 16 the next...it also brought in Donald Trump and that was pretty much all she wrote for the USFL.

I think the UFL would be very smart to look at the current NFL payscale of practice team players. If they were to add say 20% to the lowest salaries in the NFL, they may be able to steal bonafide NFL untapped talent. The UFL's slogan is "Where Future Stars Come To Play!" but is mostly populated with castoffs and players who refuse to accept they should go into retirement. For instance, who's a starting QB in the UFL...Mike McMahon of our own Lions infamy.

These young players would make that slogan ring true.

Also, bring on the Cheerleaders!