The United Football League

The UFL held it's inaugural draft last Wednesday. Several big names were selected for the four teams in New York, Orlando, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. I'm not really sure what to think about this UFL. I hope it does not fail. I don't think it will compete with the NFL and if it does it will soon fade as did the USFL did years ago. It would be good for the league to form a partnership with the NFL and be the official minor league of the NFL.

The first season starts this October and will have a 6 week schedule with games being played on Thursdays and Fridays.

They've got good support as well with by William Hambrecht, a big wig Wall Street investor, Tim Armstrong, a former senior executive a Google, now chairman and CEO of AOL, and Paul Pelosi, collegiate roommate of former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, having stepped forward heading a group of investors who invested $30 million to purchase four franchises to play in the league's 2009 initial season.From what I've read they want to pay at least ten people on each roster salaries of one million plus dollars.

I hope the league does well in it's first season. Although, it'd be nice if they were playing right now so I'd have something to save me from this dreadful Summer of nothing to watch on television.

That's all I got,



Ricky Writer


UFL Website


UFL Wikipedia info


2009 League Rosters

Las Vegas

DB | ARCHULETA, ADAM (ARIZONA STATE)
DE | AWASOM, ADRIAN (NORTH TEXAS)
P | BAUGHER, DANNY (ARIZONA)
OG | BOONE, JASON (UTAH)
NT | BRYANT, WENDELL (WISCONSIN-MADISON)
LB | BUTLER, EZRA (NEVADA)
DB | DADA, WALE (WASHINGTON STATE)
T | GAUSE, GEORGE (SOUTH CAROLINA)
DB | GAUSE, PAUL (SETON HALL)
K | JACAS, ANDREW (FORT VALLEY STATE)
TE | JACKSON, NATE (MENLO COLLEGE)
T | JOYCE, BRANDON (ILLINOIS STATE)
WR | KIRKUS, DAVID (GRAND VALLEY STATE)
TE | KUHN, SCOTT (LOUISVILLE)
NT | LONG, GABE (UTAH)
LB | MOORE, BRANDON (OKLAHOMA)
RB | PALMER, RONNIE (ARIZONA)
LB | STILLS, GARY (WEST VIRGINIA)
RB | THOMPSON, TYSON (SAN JOSE STATE)
WR | THURMAN, ANDRAE (SOUTHERN OREGON)
LB | TOAL, BRIAN (BOSTON COLLEGE)
DB | TURNBULL, NICK (FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL)
DB | WILLIAMS, CHAZ (OREGON)
RB | WHITEHEAD, TERRENCE (OREGON)


New York

QB | BACHER, CJ (NORTHWESTERN)
DB | BROWN, TREY (UCLA)
DB | CELESTIN, OLIVER (TEXAS SOUTHERN)
NT | CLEBERT, RICHARD (SOUTH FLORIDA)
DE | FOUNTAIN, MAURICE (CLEMSON)
TE | GHENT, RONNIE (LOUISVILLE)
RB | GROSS, TYRONNE (EASTERN OREGON)
T | GUTEKUNST, SAM (GERMANY)
C | HARVEY, JASPER (SAN DIEGO STATE)
QB | JOHNSON, BRIAN (UTAH)
WR | KINOSHITA, NORIAKI (JAPAN)
DB | LOFTON, DAVID (STANFORD)
LB | MAGRO, MARC (WEST VIRGINIA)
DB | MAZE, TERELL (SAN DIEGO STATE)
T | NORELL, RAY (BUFFALO)
T | PRUNEDA, RAMIRO (MONTEREY TECH)
RB | RUBIN, JOE (PORTLAND STATE)
WR | SANDERS, STEVE (BOWLING GREEN)
RB | SAPP, CECIL (COLORADO STATE)
NT | SAVE, BRYAN (COLORADO STATE)
DE | SPICER, MICHALE (WESTERN CAROLINA)
RB | TOEFIELD, LABRANDON (LSU)
LB | WILLIAMS, NATHAN (MURRAY STATE)
RB | WOODS, SHANNON (TEXAS TECH)

Orlando
NT | BLEDSOE, FRED (ARKANSAS)
QB | BOLLINGER, BROOKS (WISCONSIN)
FB | CRUZ, RONNIE (NORTHERN STATE-SD)
DB | DOSS, MIKE (OHIO STATE)
DB | FASSITT, GREG (GRAMBLING)
WR | GESSNER, CHAS (BROWN)
TE | HEINRICH, KEITH (SAM HOUSTON STATE)
NT | LONG, RIEN (WASHINGTON STATE)
DB | MASON, GRANT (MICHIGAN)
LB | MCGARIGLE, TIM (NORTHWESTERN)
RB | PERRY, CHRIS (MICHIGAN)
T | PETITTI, ROB (PITTSBURGH)
OG | PILLAR, ZACK (FLORIDA)
DE | POWELL, ERIC (FLORIDA STATE)
LB | SCHLEGEL, ANTHONY (OHIO STATE)
DE | SCHOBEL, BO (TCU)
WR | THOMPSON, DOMINIQUE (WILLIAM & MARY)
CB | TRIBBLE, DEJUAN (BOSTON COLLEGE)
NT | TRIPPLETT, LARRY (WASHINGTON)
DB | VINNETT, DARIUS (ARKANSAS)
T | WAND, SETH (NORTHWEST MISSOURI ST)
TE | WIGGINS, JERMAINE (GEORGIA)
RB | WILSON, QUINCY (WEST VIRGINIA)
DB | WRIGHT, TJ (OHIO UNIVERSITY)

San Francisco

FB | ARMSTRONG, ODIE (NW OKLAHOMA ST)
RB | AYANBADEJO, FEMI (SAN DIEGO STATE)
QB | BOYD, SHANE (KENTUCKY)
WR | BRACKINS, LARRY (PEARL RIVER CC)
LS | BROWN, KAI (BROWN)
QB | DIETZ, BRETT (HANOVER)
WR | FITZGERALD, MARCUS (MARSHALL)
DE | GUNN, MARQUIES (AUBURN)
RB | HUTSONA, DARRELL (WASHINGTON STATE)
LB | KWATENG, PRINCE (NORTHWESTERN)
TE | LEDBETTER, BRANDEN (WESTERN MICHIGAN)
T | LEKKERKERKER, CORY (CALIFORNIA-DAVIS)
LB | MARTIN, JOE (SAN DIEGO STATE)
QB | O’HAGAN, LIAM (HARVARD)
T | RIMPF, BRIAN (EAST CAROLINA)
WR | SAMS, BJ (MCNEESE STATE)
T | STAMPER, BRIAN (VANDERBILT)
NT | STEWART, JASON (FRESNO STATE)
DE | SUGGS, DAMON (GEORGIA SOUTHERN)
DB | TREAUDO, AHMAD (SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY)
DB | UNDERWOOD, MARVIEL (SAN DIEGO STATE)
DB | UNERTL, JEREMY (WISCONSIN-LA CROSSE)
RB | WASHINGTON, JOHN DAVID (MOREHOUSE)
WR | WEST, JOE (TEXAS EL-PASO)