sure hope the battlehawks dont need him otherwise they may be in trouble.
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I just got back from a week of skiing and visiting family in Colorado. Whew! I missed a lot. Thanks for catching me up. On a side note, while I was filling my tank at the neighborhood gas station, I noticed they were playing promotions for the Battlehawks and the UFL on the the monitor that is on the gas pump. Perhaps it’s a way to get to an untapped audience?
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Does anyone know if there’s any rules in place for CFL players to sign UFL contracts? This seems to be above board as he was released by the Ticats but the speed at which it happened had the same feel as when guys get released in order to sign NFL contracts
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good question 
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so some guys are retiring it seems??
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Probably realized it wasn’t worth the paycheque for some of them, and looks like two were injured prior to signing up for the league.
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did you see is coming another “CFL”? well, actually not CFL but COFL, the Continental Football League
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I’ll be surprised if they play a game but we’ll see.
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They don’t even have their 8th team announced yet.
Really interesting league. Kinda gimmicky. They switch to CFL rules in the 4th Quarter.
I only know the Toros, because their owner was a huge UFL Brahmas fan. He paid like 2 grand for this statue;
The league folded the Brahmas a week later.
He turned around and bought into the CoFL and is an owner of the Toros now. Even had the bull painted 
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You know what, I know people get bored with the status quo, but people age and die and new people can take up the cause of being enthusiastic with good simple pro-sport competition right?
There is an entropy in carnival/circus-like rule changes with no end. 3-point converts? Why not 4-point converts? We never really want the game to end do we? Always a way back right? You can kick the ball a certain way in your own end but not in the opponents end? Why not flip the philosophy on field position by awarding more points for backing a kick up? Hey we need to get to the 43 to make this kick but better not get to the 42 because now we are only teeing up for a 3 point FG instead of a 4 point FG. Where does this nonsense end?
This isn’t entertainment, its desperation. When your rules get so convoluted, there isn’t real competition anymore. Its just WWE-style drama with no substance underneath.
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I mean the 3pt shot was seen as a gimmick when the ABA introduced it too.
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All these people that start a new league think they are smarter than the last league that folded.They think because they love football, that everyone else loves it and that there is a demand for more. Good luck
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Well Fox seems pretty committed to the cause as this is their 6th consecutive season of owning all or part of a Spring football league. If they hit the 10 year mark then I believe spring football will prove it finally deserves to exist.
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Basketball is a different game.
The goal in basketball is to score baskets. A more difficult shot at the basket is rightly rewarded with more points. The principal goal in football is to possess the ball in your opponent’s end. Field goals are consolation and more easily made the more successful you are at achieving the main goal. Awarding more points for failing the main goal of the game by a wider margin is counter to the philosophy of the sport.
If gridiron football were more like basketball or even soccer where the main goal was well goals.. that is to say, if you could only score by field goals, then there would be merit in a bonus shot from distance perhaps.
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And given the pay cuts and reorganization, why should we be surprised that more experienced players would retire rather than continue with the same grind that comes as a professional athlete, especially when they have made some NFL money?
I am not surprised at all.
A week into the 2026 UFL season, and seven players have announced their retirement since players reported. With the UFL transitioning into a younger, and “fresher” it appears that many players are opting to end their careers earlier than owner Mike Repole probably hoped. Over the past several days, an additional wave of players have “retired” rather than pursue the UFL. With the 2026 regular season set to kick off in just over three weeks expect more players to hang up their cleats especially once final cuts take place.
The site’s phrasing of “earlier than than owner Mike Repole probably hoped” is quite revealing. And as stated, we’ll see more and not less of this from experienced players given the movement to “college town hero” and other bullshit that Repole is pushing.
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Irrespective of the UFL, if a player is not good enough to be in the CFL any more or very long anyway, the team just shows the player the door and they can go sign wherever they wish to play.
I do not see any exodus to the current UFL for the better CFL players.
It was a thing for more players when there were two spring leagues in 2023, and it definitely showed that summer in the CFL especially in lack of roster depth for better players.
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Punchable face too
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Yeah, I’m with you — Fox being six years deep into spring football is not nothing. That’s not “throw spaghetti at the wall and bail after one bad quarter of bleeding cash.” But let’s separate two things: commitment and profitability aren’t the same animal — not even close.
Look at the math. Fox cut a $1B check for WWE SmackDown — roughly $205M a year — and while the show was pulling 1.7 to 2.1 million viewers, it wasn’t lighting the world on fire relative to what they paid Vince and Crew. UFL Friday nights are sitting in the 450K–700K range, which on paper looks small. But the rights cost isn’t even in the same universe as the WWE. If the UFL package is materially cheaper — and it absolutely is — then the ROI bar is lower. You don’t need WWE numbers if you’re not paying WWE prices. That’s the key.
Fox never publicly coughed up the exact losses on the WWE, from what I could find Fox was doing “disciplined” cost-cutting when they ditched the WWE – I’ve seen numbers on the a Annual Operating Losses – that estimated that Fox was losing $134 million to $166 million per year on the WWE deal.
So for arguments sake – Lets say that Fox is losing 20 million a year on the UFL. They are still $110 to $140 million to the good side of the ledger than they were with WWE.
If Fox rides this thing to 10 years like you said, then spring football probably earns its seat at the table — not as the NFL’s equal, but as a stable, mid-tier content asset that fills calendar gaps without requiring billion-dollar rights fees.
So yeah — I agree with you. Fox staying in this spring football game is long term signal.
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