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UFL doubles down.
Despite the disappointing scales in its second season after the Merge of USFL/XFL, it has attracted another major investor. He has big plans.
Mike Ripol, who founded vitamino, Smart water, and Bodyarmor before selling it to Coca-Cola for more than $ 12 billion, and joins Redbird Capital Partners, Fox, ESPN, Dany Garcia and Dwayne Johnson as a league ownership.
“Football itself has clearly proven that it is the most popular American sport, with momentum and tremendous demand,” Ribol said in the press statement, which was announced. “There is no time better than now to build a strong and sustainable spring league that unifies the players, teams and fans. I am honored to join the United Nations Royal Group United and we are working to create a permanent thing and change the game.”
Initial changes in the game include the transfer of half of the league, with the privileges of Birmingham, Michigan, Houston and Memphis heading to new markets. In an interview with Kevin Seift from Espn.com, RSPOLE confirmed that at least two and up to four teams will move to 2026.
Ripol also said that one of the new markets will be Columbus, as the UFL team played at the MLS stadium that was built for the Columbus crew.
He wants places to feel life. This makes the stadiums the smallest decisive.
“The atmosphere has not reached the place it should be,” said Ribol. “You can hear a low pin when someone runs 80 yard. This is not good. No one wants to run the TV and watch 10,000 fans in a 65,000 -seat stadium. It is like watching Covid game“
As facilities shrink, the difference can grow. He wants to double the UFL size, over the next decade.
“We will be aggressive as much as we are intelligent, brave and brave and we are making aggressive movements,” said Ribol. “If we have in 2035, if we cannot get 16 teams, I will consider this a personal failure. This is. Other league championships do not have the capital that this league did not have, the media giants that this league did not have, the entrepreneurs of this team.”
It is right in that. The key will be to create a football appetite when it is not the football season. This is the primary challenge that all spring or summer championships faced.
This means that the best way to succeed as a substitute league is to play matches during the American Football Association season, in the days when the American Football Association does not play games: Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday.
