With Michael Vick out of federal hold and potentially ready to give back to football , there ’s all sorts of buzz around his eventual landing place . If NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell does n’t think Vick should get a second shot with the big boy right off , the scrambling quarterback may have to work his way back through one of football ’s many lowly conference , like the upstart United Football League , which is slate to begin meet this October .
The UFL is n’t the only non - NFL league that ’s ramp the gridiron , though . There are all sorts of junior-grade and underage leagues out there for the football game hunger . Here ’s a tone at a few them :
1. The United Football League
The Teams : For the initiative 2009 season , the UFL is roll out out four team in Orlando , Las Vegas , New York , and San Francisco , with enlargement plans for Hartford and Los Angeles for the 2010 time of year .
The Season : For the 2009 season , each team will act as six games followed by the championship secret plan .
The gift : The UFL has n’t scrimp on coaching ; the four inaugural franchises will be coached by intimate names : Jim Fassel , Ted Cottrell , Jim Haslett , and Dennis Green .
Teams are n’t pinching pennies on musician salaries , either . While it ’s not NFL money , team will have $ 16 million to pay up thespian . No marvel marginal NFL guys like former Bills QB J.P. Losman have jump-start to the UFL . ( We ’re reasonably certain Losman will still manage to aim Lee Evans on every stroke , even though he ’ll be doing his passing for the Vegas squad . )
Interesting Nugget : The group of investors that put up the $ 30 million to bribe the UFL ’s first four franchises has some nice political connexion ; drawing card Paul Pelosi is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ’s married man .
2. The Continental Indoor Football League
Best Primate - Based Team Name : The Miami Valley Silverbacks .
The Rules : middling similar to the familiar Arena Football League , except each side only has seven players on the field of battle .
The Talent : Spotty . Some team bust the AFL ’s rosters when that conference suspended its time of year this twelvemonth , so the 2009 CIFL season was n’t quite a space-reflection symmetry - fest . The Chicago Slaughter had in particular good hazard with this tactic , cruising to a 12 - 0 record book and a CIFL patronage .
3. The Indoor Football League
The natural endowment : Former NFL draft bust and note booster Peter Warrick plays for the Bloomington Extreme .
Funniest Team Name : The Omaha Beef , whose mascot is Sir Loin .
Most just phase of Entertainment : Nobody can accuse the aforementioned Omaha Beef of sexism . While the team has a women ’s dancing squad , the Prime Dancers , they also have an all - male person dance squad , the Rumproasters .
4. The American Indoor Football Association
Least Ferocious Sounding Team Name : The Erie RiverRats .
The rule : Fairly similar to standard indoor football , except two players can be in motion at the time of the snap , and in another nod to Canadian football game , any beginning that run through the uprights or is n’t win out of the oddment zone earns the kicking team a compass point .
Retro Charms : The AIFA uses an ABA - style red - ashen - and - racy football , and at least nine players on each police squad must be take out from within a 120 - mile radius around the team ’s hometown .
5. Lingerie Football League
The Concept : Have you ever looked at a Victoria ’s Secret catalogue and thought , " Sexy woman in their underwear are nice and all , but how could they react to a play - action fake?“ This fall , the Lingerie Football League ’s 10 - team inaugural time of year will attempt to fill this niche .
The Game : The actor , clad in helmets , pad , bikini top , and shorts , will fiddle two full - contract half of fifteen arcminute on a regular 50 - yard indoor football game discipline .
Rule Changes : No kicking ! A team has four downs in which to score or get a first down ; there ’s no punting or field goal kicking . There are n’t any plain spare points , either . After a TD , teams can go for a one- or two - point conversion .
The Rosters : Each squad only carries 12 players , meaning at least some of them have to go both ways . The league will in all likelihood need to come up with a more fluent phraseology if they require to keep off snickering .
The Best Way to Show Your Team Spirit : Pick up your squad ’s official uniform for $ 175 .
Notably Absurd Team epithet : The San Diego Seduction , the Los Angeles Temptation , the Las Vegas Homewreckers . ( Okay , I made that last one up . )
6. Independent Women’s Football League
The team : The league , which is organized as a elephantine not-for-profit to assist spread woman ’s tackle football game , boasts 51 teams and over 1600 player around the country . The teams are arranged into two tiers and play received outdoor football game , complete with some middling vicious striking .
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7. Women’s Football Alliance
heavy Team Names : The conference is flush with grand name calling : the Las Vegas Showgirlz , the Marana She - Devils , and the Kentucky Karma all make the listing .
Stat That ’s Apparently existent : Not every squad in the fledgling league has quite caught on to this whole football game thing just yet . The Kansas City Storm have nock zero points in five games ( include 77 - 0 , 74 - 0 , and 88 - 0 shutout ) while rack up a stout -115 yards of total offense . That stat almost makes the scoreless Missouri Phoenix , who have yet to fill out a whirl , look like a full-bodied law-breaking by rolling up -7.4 1000 per game .
But the League Has Its Own Version of Tecmo Bo Jackson : Baltimore Burn running back Stephanie Walker has pile up 1026 yards on just 78 carries this season , including 12 TD surge .
