United States Football League (2013–)
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| Sport | American football |
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| Founded | 2008 |
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 United States
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| Official website | theusfl |
The United States Football League, LLC (USFL) is a proposed American unaffiliated spring minor professional football league founded in 2008. The league is also known as the New United States Football League to distinguish it from the 1983-85 league of the same name.
The New USFL was founded in 2008 by Southern California businessman Michael Dwyer. Dwyer announced 12 target states for USFL teams in 2008. States specified were Nevada, California (2), (Portland) Oregon, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, New York, Michigan, Ohio, and Alabama and assembled an advisory board of people who had previously worked in pro football before drastically limiting the information he released to fans.
Jaime Cuadra led EndZone Sports Management, LLC acquired the league in February 2012. In May 2012, Jim Steeg, Jim Bailey and Fred Biletnikoff were named to the league board of advisors. The league was expected to begin operations in March 2013.
Cuadra claimed in February 2013 to have a real estate developer on board as the league would build in some cities stadiums as a part of mixed used developments. At the time, EndZone's plan for the league was to sell individual franchises at $1 million each while managing the teams financial by the league. Cuadra expected ideally in three or four years after launch that there would be 16 teams in the league.
President and CEO Cuadra resigned from his league duties in February 2013 in the midst of a scandal. The USFL brand was sold again in 2013 to Touchdown Management, LLC, an entity owned by Jim Bailey headquartered in San Diego. On June 24, 2013, Cuadra plead guilty to embezzling more than $1 million from two San Diego companies and using the money to fund the new USFL. Bailey took over as CEO.
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