Or not. Unless you live in Austin, Birmingham, Columbus, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, New York, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Raleigh, Sacramento or San Antonio. But either way, it's coming. Their website says 2008, Peter King says 2009. Their schedule will coexist with the NFL's though hopefully the games will be during the week and not on Saturday or Sunday.
This is not another Arena league and it is not the NFL Europe. It will succeed, mark my words. Why you ask? Well for starters, Mark Cuban has already signed on as an owner so the league will get plenty of free press. Most importantly, they are going after NFL talent. From a coaching and management standpoint, they hope to get current NFL assistants to fill the roles and they are ready to pay up. Coaches can allegedly earn up to a million a season, while GM's can collect half as much. As for players, the leagues plans on poaching from NFL rosters, targeting mid-low tier players offering way more than the players would make as reserves in the NFL.
The UFL rosters will be filled out with all-stars from Arena who will most likely make the league minimum of $75,000 (or 3x the Arena league max). Additionally, I'm sure some paroled former college studs could expect a phone call (read: Maurice Clarett) and maybe some washed up guys that probably had no shot in the NFL to begin with (read: DaCody Fagg).
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