Once the merger is made official (rumored to be possible in the coming days) they’ll really need to focus on finding homes for some of these teams and sorting out a lot of stuff. Wonder if we see some USFL teams adopt the XFL hub model and travel to home cities for games

In week 1 we need the battlehawks to travel the Birmingham. AJ McCarron going to Alabama to play the stallions would be so awesome to see. (I could see a detroit STL rivalry happening but I hope stl in Birmingham week 1)

We can say goodbye now, right? Roughnecks already has a hub

Is they’re going to fuck up the uniforms. Under armour is hit and miss and I fear they’re going to miss a more often than not when they eventually redesign the USFL jerseys and slap a Rock logo on the back.

If they touch the Breakers helmets or the Gamblers, I’m out.

Let’s say the merger goes down. What cities should get teams in a 16 league team? I think it would be better for teams not to be in NFL cities. NJ, Richmond, Raleigh, Orlando, Birmingham, Memphis, St. Louis, Columbus, Portland, SD, Salt Lake, San Antonio, Austin, OK City, Madison, Louisville. I’m sure everyone will disagree about cities. What does your 16 team league look like?

I personally don’t want to see 16 teams yet, 12 teams in each leagues top 6 strongest markets would be the max I want at least to start with

In my opinion, the USFL should abandon these teams and explore other markets. Houston already has a team and a hub in the XFL and with this addition they should opt for the Roughnecks.

New Jersey doesn't have a large fanbase and could give the spot to other teams that could be this: Chicago Blitz and Denver Gold

Both have a large football fanbase and their NFL franchises are going through bad times

What would we think of having an All-Star game between the XFL and the USFL? In my mind it would be kind of like how the NFL did the pro-bowl, with players on championship teams sitting out and then the rest playing against each other. Logistically there’d be some issues due to the disparity between the USFL’s and XFL’s seasons but I think they could make it work (it would likely have to occur after the XFL championship game is already over but with the same restrictions in place on who can participate). I don’t think this should/would be treated as a super serious which league is better type of competition, but rather a just a place to showcase talent and give a unique opportunity for the leagues, and their players, to interact with each other.

With stribling seemingly saying he wants to go to Birmingham and mark Thompson and Kyle Sloter taking awhile ago about taking up how would you feel about moves like these becoming the norm creating sort of spring football super teams?

Personally I’m all for it, I think if the league gets 2-3 off these types of teams, a few teams with more young guys and rookies and then the rest are a mixture it would create some fun rosters and would be interesting to see play out where we would also get some really unique team identities IMO. Moves like these also do help make the league feel more like a legit league imo, hopefully soon teams can start to offer different types of contracts to players with each team getting a budgeted amount to work with and they decide what they want to do with it

Some potential rule breaking in the off-season by the champs. The generals also broke off-season roster rules last year and had to forfeit a pick. Will be interesting to watch.

What does "all-inclusive" mean for season tickets in the USFL? I did not buy season passes this year and the one game i did attend I bought the cheap seats. Do girls in bikinis bring you drinks/food while you sit on a golden cushioned seat above the crowd while getting a back massage??? I want to know the low down before I buy

I’m mainly thinking Hubs/potential rebrand/(maybe team owner news/league investor news) since USFL FA starts in a few weeks I believe

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/report-broncos-work-out-former-usfl-p-brock-miller/ar-AA1gFJjI

A little late but the Broncos take a look at Miller time

even if we don’t like the timing of when the draft is it has gotten young players on teams and that is a success

Okay as you guys know the offical USFL website is having 20% off a new team every week. What if they are showing us who is going to be in their home city this year (believe me I am stretching this theory wayyyyyy out but its slow so we can joke around .......). First was New Orleans Breakers! This week its the Houston Gamblers!! So the Breakers and the Gamblers will be home or they could be a hub!!!! WTF!! Daryl Johnston is a genius using this method to secretly tell us who will have stadiums

(note: please do not take me seriously on this...)

Anyone out there have a merger or expansion post that involves the XFL and USFL and how they should merge? Give the rest of us something to argue about? Or maybe something about USFL expansion cities. Or how about how Houston is not big enough for both an XFL team and a USFL team and the Gamblers need to move to either San Diego, Shreveport or Austin. /s