The UFL - 4 Teams, One Owner

Desperate time call for even desperate measures and it seems the United Football League is desperate to kickoff its premier season in 2009. The UFL was envisioned to be a 6 - team, 6 - owner association but that darn economy got in the way. Instead, the UFL will become 4 teams that will barnstorm across as many as nine cities playing 13 games starting in October. Those clubs will be own by one man, Paul Pelosi. You may not know Paul but you know his wife, Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Nice political connections.

Paul Pelosi was former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue’s roommate at Georgetown University. Damn this dude is connected.

UFL commissioner Michael Huyghue said, "The real focus is to treat this is a soft launch and come back strong in 2010." Let's hope their is a 2010 for the UFL.

Frank Vuono, the league’s acting chief operating officer, told Sports Business Journal the UFL is in advanced talks to play in the Los Angeles area at the Home Depot Center; on Long Island at Hofstra University; in San Francisco at AT&T Park; in Orlando at the Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium; in Hartford, Conn., at Rentschler Field; and in Las Vegas at Sam Boyd Stadium. He identified Memphis, Sacramento and Birmingham, Ala., as other cities that could host games.

Will TV camera's be present when the UFL kicks off? They just might. Huyghue says one is ready to be signed but won't disclose who that outlet is.

There are no sponsorships in place but Vuono says his going out, hat in hand, in the worst U.S. economy in history.

The feeling at the OSG HQ is we love more football and hope the UFL kicks off however, it's business model is almost like that famous Bob & Doug McKenzie Christmas song. 11 players on offense, 11 players on defense, 7 cities hosting, 4 teams a playin' and one owner of the whole thing.