Welcome to the UFL! The Rock and Dany Garcia announce the 8️⃣ United Football League teams 🏈
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- Welcome to the UFL! The Rock announces the 8️⃣ United Football League teams 🏈 | College GameDay
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Dany Garcia join College GameDay to discuss the launch of the United Football League.
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For some perspective, St.Louis literally ran out of beer and food on opening day. The stadium had zero beer in it after the 3rd quarter. That’s how popular it is
It's been since 2015 dummy@AHundo1017
Running out of beer is my worst nightmare 😱
Then I should get Battle Hawks 🦇 merch. On Ethika or online. It's 1 🛣️ of the nearer teams to me. I want Kapernick to QB somewhere.
@@user-on7iu3ie4i Can't believe people still holding out hope for that nonsense.
Or if the Bears get relegated by the Battle Hawks... ask Benchwarmer Bran
It really does suck that a lot of the other XFL and USFL teams couldn’t make it into the final cut, but hopefully if this merger plays out in the end, we get to see them come back next season or possibly create expansions down the road.
To the UFL. May spring football come back stronger than ever
Toast to that my brother
Yeah, if it is a success I see no reason they won't revive those teams down the road. KAW KAW Let's win it this year Battlehawks!
I agree, Spring Football will be awesome.
😂 it’s unwatchable… you dudes need a hobby.
Kind strange to not have a NY or Cali team
I am happy for this. USFL and XFL as separate leagues is not healthy for either. Now that they have merged, Spring football will become bigger faster. And I hope the innovation that the UFL is bringing to the table forces the NFL from living in their antiquated way of doing things.
I see you a Niner Fan as well.. but did you notice there are No teams in the Pacific time zone or teams in Western hemisphere for that matter.. that's almost 50% of the country.. almost
@@HovaSwervewhat about the Seattle dragons 🐉
@@HovaSwerve I think it's a good thing that they're starting small. They have to build a fan base and an infrastructure. Good things come with time.
@@HovaSwerve Look at how much the XFL lost in travel costs. There's a reason they're all so close together. Its the most efficient way to keep hubs away and actually put teams in front of their home crowds. If the league is successful I see them bringing back at least Seattle in 2-3 seasons.
@imrafiki966 Nah, I didn't.. don't know any of the Financials, I just thought they wanted a really good product so combining made sense, instead of splitting the talent pool combining it together for more higher level competition outside of NFL
This is great we get football in the spring and players that can’t make the NFL get a second chance at pro football
So second best players, this will fail, again
Yeah, but 95% are just signing up to get more CTE so when they get kicked out the minor leagues they'll be too messed up to get a normal job.
*semi-pro
@@franciscotoscano9924 if you can enjoy college football, why can't you enjoy this? These players will probably be the mid-upper talent of D1 athletes. Worse than the NFL, of course, but it shouldn't be bad to watch
@@imamfakhruddin1015 it isnt a bad watch. No one gives it a chance and the games are great. XFL 2023 was really good games
The Rock: “How’d I do?”
Pat: “You own the team, you did great.”😂
I love that they're keeping the San Antonio team! Even though its a small market, they have passionate football fans!
All those fat people in San Antonio make it look like there are more fans in the seats.
San Antonio is the 7th largest city in the USA. Small market ? nope !! San Antonio folks need to support their pro teams big time.
The Rock and Dany, thank you for more football 🏈 🙏
Yes, thank you Rock and Dany
@@neohuerta713 I was going to fall into football depression after the superbowl. We got more high quality premium football in the spring thanks to the rock, dany and red bird capital
@NBF-0 I also follow MLB baseball and NBA basketball but I would rather watch a pro football game. The UFL is what I will watch for sure. Go Roughnecks !!
I absolutely loved watching the XFL last year it was insanely fun watching AJ, the beer snake, the passion and fun these players brought to the table and to see players make it to the NFL this year means it's working! I didn't watch the USFL too much but glad they united! So happy for these players and D Johnson is a perfect ambassador for this league because he lived it, he knows! Great stuff!
Agree
Im stoked for it. Glad they kept the battlehawks and defenders. Watched a lot of xfl games last year not many usfl games though. Im excited for more football regardless.
They gotta add a couple west coast teams though
Pat and The Rock being on ESPN together is as close to a WWE reunion we'll get and I'm here for it.
Um
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You sure you have the eyes of a fox😅
You want to tell him?@keitoncastillo3200
Not only that Danny Garcia was The Rock's ex-wife also.
They should've done an Orlando team. The Apollos in 2019 did extremely well in ticket sales and marketability. The fan base is here they've shown they can support and sustain the team.
Wasn’t the Orlando team the one that moved to Memphis or am I thinking of a different city?
@@jorgeore86 Tampa Bay Bandits
@@jorgeore86Tampa Bandits moved to Memphis
@@jorgeore86AAF had the Orlando Apollos and XFL had the Orlando Vipers
@@mikeoxmaul9675The Miami Sopranos dissolved the Orlando Vipers.
Hope this leads to seeing more international players. Japan, and Germany have some solid leagues, and players.
I love the fact they picked the most appealing teams not just the best ones. Dope. Hope they gets big enough to add more teams in 1-2 years
Shout out the Battlehawks! Awesome fan base there in St. Louis
So happy San Antonio is keeping our team. Hopefully this is our chance to eventually becoming an NFL city one day.
You knew STL wasn't going anyone. I lived there last year and they love the Battlehawks.
I’d like to see them expand to 12 teams in the near future and see 2K sports make an official football game!
Do u really want 2k to screw up another sports game lol
@@md357. To my knowledge they have not ever screwed up a football game
@@md357. Bruh NFL 2k was better than Madden and it had first person mode?! C'mon man.
@@md357. Can't be worse than EA's Madden. It's just pure garbage.
Cannot see expansion to 12 teams if they keep on creating a new football league every 2 years! Hard to sell a product fan base if you keep creating something new were fans don’t get adjusted to the current product.
This is great for Football Fans and Talent as well
Thank you Rock
Hope this will be a success
When I saw the XFL Conference my heart sunk but they KEPT MY ROUGHNECKS!!!!!
Well they kept the name of the Houston Roughnecks, but the players and staff is from the Houston Gamblers.
Yeah, no more Wade Phillips…but they should be recognized as the 2020 National Champs since they were the only undefeated team that year before the nation shut down…
It’s really not the roughneck it’s the gamblers players and coaches just rebranded as roughnecks
It’s a risky compromise, but I’ll take the rebranded Roughnecks than the shitty Gamblers any day of the week
My favorite XFL Team but Sadly my Fav USFL Team New Orleans got deleted
I'm all about more football! I watched a decent amount of the XFL last year and a better and expanded version of that would be cool to see in the spring.
I am also all about watching more football, it is obvious that way too many folks are brain washed with only one favorite league. I also follow baseball closely and I enjoy the minor leagues. I know enough that the talent level is not top notch but it's still baseball
Why not combine all the the teams? Instead of just 8? And have 4 divisions? Thay would be amazing
Expansion can and prolly will happen going forward but at the beginning stages it's quality > quantity
Really hope the league does well, I need the UFL to revive the Chicago Blitz from the 80s cause it’d fill in for when the Bears leave Soldier Field in a few years.
Hate to tell you, but they do not have a big enough budget to rent a place like Soldier Field. It cost the Bears over $6.5 to rent it, but the bears have a huge budget.
This UFL will be very special. The NFL has already taken notice and will be adopting the XFL kickoff as the new NFL kickoff going forward. Dwayne and his Business Partner (and Yes, ex-wife) Dany have worked wonderfully together to produce something that fans will embrace. “Lunch Pail” Football by Hungry Athletes which All of us can relate to. Excited for the UFL
As long as they kept my hometown D.C. Defenders, I'm satisfied...but I'm sure they'll expand back to the West Coast & maybe to non-NFL markets (San Diego, Oakland, Orlando).
Will forever remember HEHATEME XFL legend
Very happy about this. A great way to create more opportunity within the world of football.
Those 2 are very mature to still be doing business especially after they've been divorced
Great news. Spring football rocks. Hopefully Boston will eventually have a franchise. Love hearing of this!
Looks very interesting but no teams for Pennsylvania???
awesome to see football back in St Louis!
Pittsburgh Maulers came in second with #1 defense and almost won the USFL championship and they get the bump! Also I agree Orlando needed a team in this league not Memphis.
Need an Oakland team
Dany is awesome
3 more months of football… let’s fkn go!
So u just decided to put Michigan Panthers there, and not the Philadelphia Stars??? I don’t like that tbh, but I liked that u included my Battlehawks
As a kc chiefs fan whos sad the nfl season is overi cant wait to see the saint louis battlehawks. Missouri #1!
I praise the two leagues merging to become one organization... that's great!
The opportunity I think missed with the merger is the number of franchises. The league should have had started with 12 teams. Pick whatever the additional 4 team that may entail, based on viability, fan/attendance projections, & marketability. Be there as it may, the League could maintain a 10-game season, by dividing the league into Four 3-team divisions, within two conferences already established. Whereas each team plays its divisional rival twice (4 games), home & home, play the other division within its conference (3 games), finally playing one of the other conference's division (3 games), for a total of 10 games. Inter-Conference games can be rotated every two years... in other words for an example: a team from the XFL North can play the USFL North Division one year, play the USFL South Division the next year.
Playoffs can either consist of the 4 Divisional Winners... obviously two from each conference, squaring off for their perspective conference championship game. Or include more post-season games for the lagging, summer networks, by implementing an eight-team playoff format, featuring the four division winners & 4 wild cards, two in each conference, seeded 1-4. Personally, I think it would be best to forego conferences & just have the 4 divisions as mentioned before for scheduling & natural rivalry purposes, while seeding the best 4 teams period 1-4 for the League playoffs; or, the league & networks decide to do an eight-team playoffs format, seed the best 8 teams 1-8, to produce the League's champion. However, I realize the founders of the leagues wants to do conferences based on the two rival leagues... just think that's not forward thinking in such a small, new, unestablished league. They have to put the best teams/players to the forefront & avoid having a team with a sub .500 record making the playoffs over a winning team, because they are in the right division. They have to treat the league like a single college conference, 8 or 12 teams (as I propose), & showcase and reward the top teams.
LETS GO STALLIONS! I’m from Alabama!
This will be super cool. Hope they bring a team to Albuquerque sometime in the future. It would be perfect.
Hahaha Albuquerque! They going to play in that 💩 stadium UNM uses?
Proven time and time again that another pro football league is a guaranteed success.
Why would they merge and only keep 8 teams??
I’m sad to see my sea dragons leave but I agree with the picks for the teams
So Dwayne is showing up to Raw tonight right?
😁💯
You called bro! Salute 🫡
Great deal creating opportunities for young players to give them time to grow and get paid doing so. A win-win for everyone!!!
Ive been a fan of Spring football since the AAF i think that was 201
8. I wished they could bring in some of those team. I dont know how they would do that. Anyway Im excited for this merger and i hope it becomes successful. I just disappointed they couldnt bring in more teams like Seattle Seadragon, Philadelphia Stars, and the New Orleans Breakers. They did keep my two favorite from each league the Defenders (XFL) and Stallion ( USFL) Im excited and cant wait to see that matchup.
I love spring football
I’m not sure how the playoffs operate, but 10 teams would be nice so each conference could battle for the first seed to get a bye 1st rd of playoffs.
Now we just need a summer football league!
The IFA coming June 9.
A legend
Love spring football! I also love the idea of getting more players 2nd and 3rd chances at making the NFL.
Im so glad they kept the Houston Roughnecks!
Shame we lost the Gamblers branding. I liked how it tied the USFL back to the original version in the 80s but hopefully it gets assigned to a new expansion team like Vegas.
It’s the roughnecks name but it’s the Gambler’s players and coaches
Hoping to see Washington back in the playoffs because it was awful to see them completely collapse in the championship game
RN4L... That being said, I enjoyed every game from both USFL & XFL. So I'm Aready to watch.
I liked my XFL when ‘He Hate Me’ reigned. #iykyk
im not even from there but im glad the state of alabama finally gets their own professional football team
No Florida team😢 hopefully an expansion in the future for Orlando.. still gonna watch every game. Hope it succeeds., last yr was great I expect big things this yr.
All midwest/east cost. Sounds good 🤷♂️
Sounds good. Let go!
Bring back the OG Renegade logo!
Can someone explain how we don’t have more teams if two leagues merge. Vegas vipers didn’t have two teams in one city. Seattle sea dragons was one of the bigger fanbases.
Yea people are ignoring this. XFL had 8 team last season. They merge with the USFL and only have 8 teams? It's all about the money. The Rock doesn't care about "Growing the game of football." He cares about the dollah dollah bills. Getting rid of the Vegas team makes 0 sense.
They’re trying to set their foundation steady financially before expansion.
man I just rewatched the game plan- rewatching now that I am an adult and single father (love it even more now) *side note* this guy really became Joe Kingman minus the hair lol
Let's go brahmas this is dope they made the cut
It's still a lot of players to not feel defeated when they call him to the room and say bring your playbook after you was in training camp with the Cleveland browns or maybe the Detroit Lions and you can go to the UFL and show what you got and still get picked up the opportunity
How many football leagues is this guy gonna open
Do you smell what the rock is cooking
Jabronie
The Rock owns the room/field.
A crossover league, nice 👍
They should call it the
Texas Football League
also why have so many teams in markets that already have NFL teams?
It's awesome how The Rock and Dani have an awesome and strong relationship after divorce 👏
Wealth does that
@@cam0x195i think it’s wrong to suggest that. It takes two people willing to have that relationship as well. Wealth certainly helps.
Nice but will this league just be a practice squad for the NFL or can they sustain longevity and can they offer competitive wages?
You what I think would be amazing is draft prospects who don’t get drafted go to the ufl
Who doesn't want more football? Great to see a Spring League that can serve as a launching point and feeder to the NFL.
I would have loved to see more teams but perhaps the strategy will be to add every years. I hope for a successful venture. Let's go!
I DREAM that one day will see a International Focus American Football league. Love to see what talent hasn't even been discovered due to their being no opportunity. Give me a Africa Team, Spain Team, London Team, Mexico Team, Brazil Team, Japan Team, German Team, India team. Etc.
People's life's grow. We all grow together ❤
They Combined the XFL and USFL and when they decided the teams, they did not add any market/team West of the Texas. They have 3 TX teams, in an 8 team league, could of added 2 more added them in Vegas, PHX, Seattle or Cali ..js
You are correct, and I think they should plan on that for the next few years as they grow and expand the UFL league.
Bingo. You hit it right on the nose.
It’s still about money in the end, they took the most popular teams probably
Looking at how bad the vegas situation was last season it’s was obvious they weren’t getting a spot.
But I agree if you live west of San Antonio what’s the point of tuning in because there are no clear team to root for.
@@jamesmnaylor Casuals do watch teams that they're not fans of.
Lets go Arlington Renegades!
Springtime football is great.
Vince McMahon must have been elated when he found a sucker, i mean, The Rock to buy the XFL😂
Where can donate Mr. Rock🤣
Can’t wait for the UFL! But any update on the AFL?
Seattle gets screwed again
Dani looks like Hans and Franz from SNL's 'PUMP YOU UP!'
I Wish the league had more than just 8 teams that was the only reason why I was hyped about this merger. I just can’t stand the fact that it’s 8 teams again. Hopefully this league gets more than 8 teams by next season if they’re able to keep it a float like the leagues last year.
Pat - You own a league you did great lol
It is nice to see the XFL take over the USFL to make a dynamic new league.
Hate to see the XFL merge with USFL!, wanted XFL to form there own image/identity but hoping it’s only good.
I really wish all the teams survived…
Minus the gamblers
They could’ve been relocated elsewhere… but I wish all
The teams made the cut..
Why do we have three teams based in Texas?
Couldn't expand it out just a tad bit more?
Anyways I'm excited for spring football.
CAW IS LAW
I was expecting the XFL 8 teams and then the USFL 8 teams to just join together creating one big league with 16 teams.. not just 8 again.
Agreed! It's as if they want to just keep them at 8 what's the problem expanding to 16?
@@acenewman8266finances
I’m excited for St. Louis battle hacks
Some people just don't know when to quit. It takes a huge amount of money to start a new league of any sport. I'll give it two years at best.
Yeah let's hope they quit spring football so we can have golf, tennis, soccer and bowling to watch on TV. What a dumb thing to say, support spring football !!
Bring back The Wildcats
Man even though rock and danny are divorced they still work well together as business partners
Bring back the seadragons
They’re probably gonna be an expansion team in 2025-26
I’m actually really excited for this to happen I had no idea this was happening until this video
The NFL and the UFL should do a promotions / relegations!
now we need a ufl football game thats better than madden
Anybody know when UFL start? From march until what month?
LETS GO STALLIONS!!! Three peat coming soon!
Please keep the XFL Rules!!