XFL

For the first time since the Commanders of the AAF, San Antonio will host a professional football team as part of the brand new XFL, announced on Sunday evening.

Give it up, USFL. A revived United States Football League — borrowing the moniker and team nicknames from a league that went out of business 36 years ago — launched last month with all regular-season games being played in Birmingham, Alabama. USFL, The Sequel is following a familiar formula for spring football in recent years: a bunch of unknown players, sloppy play and games played in front of mostly empty seats.

For the second time in spring professional football history, it appears that the XFL is dead. From the inaugural weekend of league games to the second week, television ratings dropped dramatically. Is this the last spring football league? Time and again, someone has tried to come up with a league to satisfy football hungry Americans during the National Football Leagues off-season. If there is money to be made, you can bet on seeing another spring league in the future.