St. Louis and Louisville, no particular order, are the top for me. Louisville has that Seattle Seahawks look going.
Orlando and Houston should have simply made their black home uniforms the same, except the helmet and patches, the way they look anyway. Then they could get the volume discount.
I don’t like to criticize the league for uniforms but it seems strange that in an eight team league 3 are black or close to it, and 3 have mainly blue
We used to have too many red teams now we have too many blue teams 
The storm could have been Navy or royal purple or something.
Also DC also took a huge step back by removing the camo pattern. I feel like it was an easy way for them to be unique and it went with the Defenders theme.
at least there are no chrome or half color helmets
welcome to the forum! 
thanks for joining 
Yeah really @CFL2STL , welcome no doubt, for we are happy you finally made it here after battling on the high seas.
What took you so damn long?
Two months after that fateful day of flames and pillage during the holiday season, I would be remiss if I did not mention that in the meantime that some of us 
were secretly hoping that a small few got lost on the high seas for good and did not make it, and others like you did not take so long, but hey, life has never been fair!
And those damn Birmingham Stallions should have gone with that burgundy for the home jerseys, instead of what I would describe as “bad oatmeal” for the home look.
Right there is an additional reason for the UFL and any spring football to finally ditch that lame pro sports town for good after the 2026 season, for Birmingham is like Memphis where spring football has never worked anyway.
They are only still in the league after a late deal with the UFL via the efforts of the mayor, for the UFL was already was going to ditch those no-good galoots!
No billboards but lots of cross promotion with the Battlehawks and Cardnials apparently. The St. Louis Tribune also interviewed Repole a few days ago.
Thanks! I’m glad to be “back”. I was getting a little sea sick so I decided to google “what happened to the CFL forum” and just like that…calm seas. It even feels and looks familiar. What happened to the forum, too much CFL bashing over the rule changes?
as much as I hate to defend them, they just followed other sites such as NFL.com and ESPN.com who closed down forums long ago. It is just that the way they went about it sucked
Ah welcome by all means! Well allow me to fill you in.
Well two months ago, it was also about 
, but it was not a lot of of it all, but it was also about resources at the CFL and bad strategy 
, but most importantly, it was about BOOTY, which we secured so as to succeed in our journey on the high seas to be here still today with others to be RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, with big thanks overall to The Double-Gee aka GG @GridironGirl Dr. Goalposts @BetweenTheGoalposts Commissioner Ebeneezer Crash @Crash Bomber Junkie @bomberjunkie and @Jon (now retired)! WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
Here’s what happened at breakfast with Captain Timbers one morning before the traumatic event after it was announced:
Then of course there were some wild days, but not quite as wild as that week in September when the announcement was made of changes to the rules, with one-by-one washing ashore, usually either passed out or in an incoherent, occasionally angry, stupor, as we helped them each get going here and showed them around.
But the job was not done yet. There was booty, and there was some revenge too! Arrrggh!
Despite Birmingham listing Elgersma on thier roster, he remains a FA trying to secure an NFL deal. What I heard from a credible CFL podcast, is that Canadian players have difficulties obtaining a work permit that allows them to play in the UFL.
THIS! We’ve been screaming about this since 2023 at the old place.
Normally I’d say let’s hope there even is a 2027, but then again I am confident that the NFL Godfather and all proxies have their butts on the scales.
This week, UFL co-owner Mike Repole told St. Louis media that he “guarantees” the 2027 season will start earlier than the UFL has kicked off since its inception. In fact, a video of Repole’s comments was reposted by the St. Louis Battlehawks official X/Twitter and Instagram accounts, indicating the legitimacy of this proposition.
Sceptical of that claim now are you? Oh! Well, will you look at that, and that’s only for starters you rascals:
It’s likely Repole wouldn’t have made this guarantee without the approval of the two main stakeholders who could block such a change to the calendar: The venues and the network partners.
One aspect of the UFL that could be affected is the players that sign into the league as free agents. Training camp would have to begin sometime in early January when the NFL season is still underway. A lot of players who might otherwise sign with the UFL could instead wait out the NFL season to see if they land on a practice squad or sign a futures contract. By starting now, UFL teams have been able to acquire players that finished seasons on practice squads but were not signed to futures contracts. Those players will not be available under this change, at least at the start of training camp.
This is hardly a worry for any players lingering on practice squads at the end of the NFL season. Some will wait around and some won’t, but all of them will be in shape and ready to go if not getting that rare call in January after the regular season is over.
In the video, Repole indicated a desire to start even earlier than that, perhaps during the bye week between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl (his actual suggestion was two games that weekend and two games “after the Super Bowl,” though it’s unclear the specific time frame he was looking at for that).
I like it. Get on with the preview on that dead weekend, skip a week to work out early season quirks, then get on with it on the weekend after the Super Bowl to ramp up into spring.
Greg Parks does a fine analysis with some ideas of playing around the Super Bowl on that weekend, but folks that is NOT HAPPENING. There is an unofficial US sports media blackout that weekend for all things gridiron football for the NFL and then some.
Sure the weather in February is an X factor, but they can skew games to the South in February, when often the biggest weather factor is simply their early spring rain.
Try to defer playing games further north until at least the second weekend of March, even though that can be dicey.
Said another way, the NFL has always had plenty of great connections in Washington so as to be able to have any foreign player obtain a work permit.
And via the NCAA it’s not terribly difficult for a scholarship athlete to obtain that “student” visa either.
The UFL? Well, evidently it’s not so much the case, and I figure it will not be the case for a few years as well.
Mike Repole/Tom Brady’s NOBULL brand
I don’t know if this Mike Repole guy knows a freaking thing about actually running a football league — no clue — That’s still an open question, and a lot of us have strong opinions on this. But I do know he bought NOBULL from some Reebok guys, folded it into the Tom Brady TB12, and now they’ve got Livvy Dunne signing on as an investor/athlete/brand engine or whatever the proper term is this week for what she brings to the table.
Those moves are not beer-league/used car lot type deals. That’s big kid portfolio-level brand stacking. So when he shows up in the UFL and starts making moves people don’t like — cutting coaches, shifting markets, messing with the optics — I at least pause before assuming he is blind and is a total chaos gremlin.
Then you look at who just signed on as league partners — Adidas, New Era, NOBULL. Those aren’t Dollar General sponsorships. Big apparel brands don’t attach themselves to something they think is is going to get his with the Chicxulub asteroid next week. The big kids run numbers and stuff. I’m not pretending to understand all the broadcast economics or how Fox and ESPN model this stuff, but if those brands are willing to sink marketing dollars into the league, I have a hard time believing they think this thing goes AAF and dies in 12 months. Could I be wrong? Hell yes - that said Repole doesn’t strike me as a guy lighting money on fire for the sake of smelling it burn. He’s either stabilizing the league to flip it later, or he sees a lane the rest of us don’t. Just my read.
i just want to watch some football, i don’t even care what it is at this point lol
here ya go
i said football not australian rugby lol