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About This League

This is a semi-fictional, historical simulated football league based on the blockbuster merger of the World Football League and United States Football League in 1985.

This league is still in progress and should be ready to start between now and the first week or so of April 2007.

The UFL uses Front Office Football to simulate its action and games and is made up of 32 teams that were at one time in existance between 1974 and 1985, in either of the two leagues. In some cases, teams that moved and renamed them selves were split into two separate teams for the purposes of keeping a team in a particular market. For example, the Washington Federals became the Orlando Renegades, but we couldn't have a USFL simulation with out the leagues most notoriously ill-fated team, so we use both. Likewise with the New York Stars and Charlotte Hornets, and several other similarly related squads.

The players are based on the various rosters and histories of the actual teams, though they are not precise due to some of the vagarities in the existing information, and the fluxuations of the rosters themselves. The most popular or successful players were in most cases kept with the teams they had the most success with, or with the team that needed them more, in the many cases of players that played for one or more teams. There are even some players that played in both leagues.

Since the two leagues were approximately ten years apart, the players of the WFL, the earlier league, were 'age enhanced', but only partially. So, they generally (and randomly) assigned ages that would be younger than they actually were in 1985, but advanced enough to make them veterans. This was done to be able to include the players that joined those teams in 1974 and 1975.

So, the premise requires some imagination and two rewritings of history. The most important is that the older league never faded, and continued as it was, in time to merge with the younger league. The biggest and most basic reason for this is so that we can have a league of 32 historically-based teams without making up fictional ones to flesh out the divisions of either league. The other rewriting is the league's merger itself.

Still undecided are several things, including the movement of several teams that happened to share markets with their older counterparts, and what type of draft the league will employ moving foreward. It could employ one or two of the excellent historically based NFL draft files, or fictional players, or a combination of both.

1991 Award Winners

Official Snack Food Of The Chicago Blitz And The UFL

Official Investment Firm Of The Jacksonville Bulls And The UFL

Official Tobacco Of The Tampa Bay Bandits And The UFL

Official Frozen Food Of The San Antonio Wings And The UFL

Official Candy Of The Chicago Fire And The UFL

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1985 Award Winners