CBS Sports Network and the United Football League announced an agreement today that will bring the four-year-old league’s games to a national television audience. CBS Sports Network will televise two games per week every Wednesday and Friday live throughout the UFL’s eight-week season, culminating with the Championship game in late November. Coverage kicks off on Wednesday, Sept. 19 and Friday, Sept. 21. CBS Sports Network, the cable home of CBS Sports, is available to more than 99 million households across the country.
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Wow, UFL! Warm up those DVRs folks.
This is a great step forward for this great league. Very underrated product, I know where I will be this fall.
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG USFL BABY! Look out cause this is going to DOMINATE the ratings every Wed and Fri. Appointment viewing right here! GO USFL!
The UFL is not the USFL. Baby.
Yeah, watch sports, dude.
My son and I don’t agree on much. He, a fastidious conservative in the mold of Alex P. Keaton and I, a flower child who was born in the wrong generation. We’d bicker to the point where both of us have tears streaming down our faces and our throats are ready to close up from all of the yelling. But last fall, a little miracle named the UFL helped save my family as for one afternoon, the pain and suffering of our lineage was mitigated by the superb running game of our Las Vegas Locomotives. Sure, we don’t see eye to eye on much, but I know that every time when we hang up the phone and he finishes with “Go Locos”, it really means, “I love you, dad”. So today, with this announcement, I hope that other families can find the healing that I did.
I’d never even heard of this league til I stumbled on a game in Vegas. Abit out of my element (in a suit and dark lenses and alittle high) but the game attracted several 1000s of local fans and the teams played real football. Most of the players were college athletes or formers pros. And the tix were cheap. A ‘secondary market’ tier of games is a pretty good way to bring an interesting live sport to everybody.
This league is still in business? WHY? More like the Ultimate Failure League.
Well it obviously hasn’t failed yet.
Check out UFL 2012 on Facebook, a page for UFL Fans.
You got that right exspecially for Friday nights