UFL
The Detroit Lions have signed United Football League (UFL) kicker Jake Bates to a two-year contract, his agent, Marty Magid, told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Saturday. Detroit Lions kicker Jake Bates made a UFL-record 64-yard game-winning field goal in the 2024 season opener Bates, 24, signed with the Houston Texans on July 31, 2023, after going […]
The United Football League (UFL) was founded on Dec. 31, 2023, and its high-level minor league play began this past March. In its first regular season, the league averaged more viewers than the United States Football League (USFL) and XFL. UFL’s 40 regular-season games on ABC, Fox, ESPN, ESPN2, and FS1 averaged 816,000 viewers According […]
Kickoffs are going to look very different in the NFL next season. The top professional football league in the world adopted a new format that was first implemented by the XFL last season. Ironically, the new United Football League completely abandoned its own system. 77% of kickoffs went for touchbacks in the National Football League […]
