The Excitement Builds For Year Two of The United Football League and This Exciting New Era of American Football.

Dennis Green
June 2, 2010

The United Football League is back for its second season of NFL level of play, as it continues to be an alternative league in cities with NFL franchises. An expansion team in Omaha joins teams in Sacramento, Las Vegas, Hartford, and Orlando. The NFL often misses great players (Kurt Warner being just one example) who become their Most Valuable Player. 40% of the UFL last year had NFL experience. 40 players moved to the NFL after our season ended. And, if there were open slots, most of our remaining players would have been called to the NFL as well.

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My coaches and I are excited about merging a new team, the Sacramento Lions (formerly in San Francisco) with a new fan base. Sacramento is a sports town that loves all sports and loves offering opinions on sports.

As you know, there are just not enough NFL player and coaching spots for all of the NFL level quality players and coaches. At the same time, many of the major markets are underserved as they don’t have an NFL quality football team to cheer and root for.

The 15 tryouts of over 2,000 players held across the country this past month has proven that there are far more players eager to try out who are qualified than there are already signed up for the NFL. This is good news for American Football fans in UFL cities and across the country on TV.

My coaching staff and I have poured over lots of film including the new home of football auditions, YouTube. As we evaluate players we have but one criteria: look for and find big play guys the NFL missed, for both offense and defense, for players who can move our ball and blitz theirs.

We are carefully building upon the core players of last year to put together a winning team. We don’t want to miss guys out there that should be playing for us. The stage is now set for us to construct a successful team.

I like our new name, the Mountain Lions, as we will be as agile, fast, powerful and, dare I say it, as predatory as Mountain Lions on the field when we take on our opponents in the United Football League this season.

Very new for us is the whole area of social media and how new technology that enables the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, also enables us to better execute meaning fan plans and keep our fans up to date. Nonetheless, football is still football. Its just that we will be able to connect with our fans better using these various Internet tools.

To learn more about the UFL and our 2010 season, see these pieces on UFL web site,, where I provide answers to Nine Questions asked of me regarding the UFL and how we are building and moving forward, and how I see the future of the UFL. Also read why I believe playing in Sacramento is, pun intended, a capital idea.

Go here to read more about why Sacramento will be a great place to play and here to read more about the fantastic press conference we had with the Mayor and with our team’s owner and with the League’s Commissioner

Follow us throughout the season and the year at our interactive Internet and social media sites: UFL web site

Mtn Lion web site

UFL Facebook page

Mtn Lion Facebook page

UFL Twitter page UFL Twitter page

Mtn Lions Twitter page

Mtn Lions Fan Club, where you can sign up for the Mtn Lions Fan Club

Note: some URLs are subject to change. All above can also be accessed at the UFL web site: http://www.ufl-football.com