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the UFL going International in 2025 well the league just announced some pretty significant news that is already catching a buzz online and that is the UFL showcase series will be going International in 2025 after the completion of the 2025 UFL season and that is to Switzerland this is massive um it’s going to be September 21st 2025 and the UFL says marker calendars are showcase series is going International in 2025 now of course this is just one of what I am expecting to be numerous different International locations that the UFL is going to start going to looking for additional Talent outside of the um already massive sellout um showcases that they hold throughout the United States every year as well dating back to uh the XFL when they started holding showcases uh back in 2022 prior to the 2023 season and I think the US usfl did their own uh showcases through or like a showcase through a third-party vendor um but again this is absolutely big news for the league because this is just another step closer to really making a name for the league and going to an intern National perspective which is interesting I don’t think anyone really expected this out of the blue uh to be announced or whatnot but it is um one thing that essentially with the UFL showcases uh now potentially being held overseas um that is going to bring a new area of talent to the UFL for potentially the third season in 2026 now a lot of people are buzzing right off the bat saying oh my God this confirms that we’re getting a third year of the UFL we’ve already had that confirmed the league has said on numerous occasions that they are in it for the long haul and I mean when the San Antonio brahmas and the UFL announced that they were only having four home games this year due to the scheduling conflicts with the Elmo Dome the league and the San Antonio Brahma Russ Brandon spoke to the San Antonio mayor at that point and actually confirmed the 2026 season then when they said in 2026 they will return to the normal 5game home schedule for the brahmas that they’ve already kind of addressed with the Alamo Dome um going forward so I think that is absolutely awesome news I think a lot of people are caught off guard a little bit by the fact that oh my gosh the third season is officially announced here and I’m just sitting here like we’ve been reporting this for a while now and we’ve also been reporting here on the channel That the league itself essentially has a 3 to 5year plan already set up most corporations or businesses already do uh the XFL and usfl both had that that vision and that plan prior to merging was a 5-year plan but now we’re with the UFL and you know with this merger that is something that essentially even though was addressed and we’ll talk about this cuz there was more information we wanted to talk about outside of just the uh Switzerland thing and that also is the UFL leaders discussed League formation success at the sports Business Journal media inovate uh innovators conference that was held I believe uh this week or whatnot uh the UFL was proud a proud sponsor of the sports Business Journal media innovators conference which occurred Wednesday so just two days ago November 20th in New York City UFL president and CEO Russ Brandon took part in their partner Insight panel mod uh moderated by Sports business journals Dan Kaufman joining Brandon was managing director of Redbird Capital Uh Kevin laforce and president of content of ESPN uh Burke uh mang M Mangus I believe it’s how you pronounce his name um the topic discussed was unique ownership ship how broadcast uh private equity and entertainment entities came to or how the inter uh entities came together to form the UFL there’s a full video on it I ended up watching it earlier today and what I took away from this overall perspective was there was a lot that ESPN and uh Disney or whatnot was talking about when um Burke uh Magnus Magnus is how you pronounce his name was talking that they really Drew on to the XFL in 2023 when um of course Danny and Dwayne and Redbird Capital uh brought it out of bankruptcy from when the pandemic happened with the 2020 uh rendition of the XFL or XFL 2.0 they had said that they really got hooked essentially on that business model because and all of them praised the XF in 2020 when Vince McMahon held it and just how massive that League was expected to grow and how successful it was is what led ESPN and Disney and ABC and that that that group to really form this partnership and now co-owner of the or co-owners of the league uh now with the UFL that’s what drew them in and they knew there was a success with that league and they saw a lot more Vision with with the the XFL in 2023 and then now of course that both leagues have merged together that process essentially is even more so of what ESPN um is looking for they all of them including um uh Kevin leforce with breed bird Capital says this is a huge investment that they have into the league and they will continue supporting this investment uh moving forward in the long-term future because they can see how dominant football is in America and really just how they want to essentially grow the league overall now of course the other big thing that came out of this was uh Russ Brandon did touch a little more basis on the merger um he was talking about how right after the UFL usfl season ended in July of 2023 uh he got a phone call from Danny and Dwayne um to head to uh Los Angeles to meet up with Eric Shanks uh the I believe it’s CEO or uh the main person in charge of Fox Sports and they were like hey we want to go over there and talk about merging with the usfl this happened probably I think he said the second week of July um and then of course we all know the the actual official merger of the league uh was January 16th is what he was saying so despite the fact we had had the announcement on December 31st into New Year’s Day on January 1st the actual official business date um they were saying was January 16th now we’ve heard that before um but I thought it was very interesting in that perspective in this interview of just how that process went through and um basically how Redbird capital and ESPN really see a huge um overtaking in the league itself with Fox and just the the the motions and the wheels that get turned uh between the the networks and everything with Fox and ESPN and how that’s really helping them survive and helping them grow as a league with all these great partners and ownership together um Russ Brandon did talk about and I think uh also it was uh uh Kevin laforce was talking about Dwayne Johnson being the most followed male in the World on Instagram and social media and said that that is a dynamic that they’re really going to tap into in the 2025 and Beyond season so I am curious to know um now that we’ve got the red one um then we’ve got Moana 2 coming out next week um and then of course Dwayne is filming currently uh Milana liveaction movie of how and of course WrestleMania coming up as well um in in April of how exactly that that marketing strategy that we kind of have seen but not as big as what a lot of people would think of promoting the UFL has come out we’ve not really seen that that much in in that perspective really do anything in my opinion I I think a lot of UFL media and people across the board can say the same thing but they’re looking to really tap into that more into the future years or whatnot and really build a league that grows or whatever the case may be they they what was interesting to talk not necessarily they didn’t talk about expansion in this in this conference but what they did talk about was the fact that being a ownership group with ESPN uh Disney Redbird Capital Fox Danny and Dwayne and everything in that big ownership group that they talked about where they own everything so they can pretty much run how they want this league to be ran which makes more sense because of course all the the programming is directly on ABC ESPN and fox networks and they’re not having to essentially loan it out to someone else like NBC or CBS or anything like that and have different constraints of what they can and can’t do they said that with this ownership partners or ownership and group and everything that they were able to essentially control everything from the ground up and that’s how they kind of want to stick with the league now why I say that’s interesting is because we have heard directly from Daryl Johnston Russ Brandon himself who is in this panel um along with other leadership within the UFL head coaches and staff and stuff like that has talked about in the potential selling of the teams after a couple years or whatnot and getting individual owners they kind of talked directly against this in this panel saying how they don’t have to deal with that type of stuff like the NFL or NBA or other leagues do and they really appreciate that that perspective so I am curious to see where that goes but it was just an interesting tibbit that I took away from this this panel I’ll include the link in the description check it out it is very interesting it’s probably I think about 25 minutes long um but it it is very interesting information of a business perspective of the UFL how they came together with the merger and how that is very successful um that was one thing they kept touching on was how successful the league was in 20 uh 24 and the big part is Russ Brandon talked about that local media or local presence in those homes uh the home cities or whatnot and how they have hired people in those direct areas and saw nearly overnight results regarding ticket sales marketing and things like that in some markets that were struggling they have seen a vast Improvement within like basically overnight as he put it in some of these markets when they hired these people in and started transitioning of what they were doing locally in these markets I really hope that is the case because if that is that is what we’re looking at heading towards the 2025 season this could be the biggest Spring football year we’ve ever seen and I do think that as we’ve seen in Prior years with like the usfl um where numbers kind of start dipping not necessarily attendance because usfl really didn’t Focus much on that it was more TV ratings there was a little bit of a drop that even Daryl Johnston talked about um before the usfl championship game in 2023 um of that drop and being surprised with that I I think the direct opposite I I really think that we are going to see an uptrack in everything from this Mulligan year as they’re calling it for the 2024 season with how quick the league came together or whatnot I mean uh Russ Brandon in this interview reminded us the league itself is not even a year old yet and they still haven’t had a true off seon at least at least in his State be or in his world because of the XFL or whatnot now the usfl had a actual true off season during the 2022 the 2023 season but they were also dealing with the XFL um ramping up operations heading into 2023 so now they’re not dealing with any of that and you’ve got peer focus in like-minded uh organizations coming together to really build this league up I I think we’re in for something very special and they they kept talking about the XFL in 2020 and what that meant to everybody involved Fox ESPN and all them that were part of those um television rights and stuff like that in 2020 they kept mentioning that and focusing more on so like hey we want to get to that model and it seems like they are getting closer and closer to that um even within the Hub status The Hub model that they’re having but one more story before I wrap it up as we head into the weekend and that is something absolutely amazing happened today and that is collectible exchange it’s collectible the letter X Change and basically what it is is it is a a company by Brandon I believe his name is Steiner who essentially created a thirdparty market where leagues players and collectors could come together and have verified merchandise or verified Collectibles sold on their website they have baseball basketball football hockey entertainment trading cards exclusives jerseys you name it everything you could imagine and this morning it got posted that this site was going to be essentially uh doing a lot of stuff for the league and what I’ll do is while I’m recording this I will go head and uh put this on the screen so then you guys can see what I am seeing because this is absolutely amazing so when we’re going through here and it starts recording here so these are 2023 XFL season issued blank jerseys that they either didn’t use or they took the numbers off whatever the case may be I think it they were just not used jerseys that a lot of leagues will get rid of after their Seasons well we’ve got this where they have both the sea dragons home and away jerseys and these are the Under Armour official jerseys that were uh blank or whatever the case may be they have the uh Vegas vipers most of the teams I’ve noticed that um are gone at least at this point are the teams that they have but as you can see going back through the list they have all different sizes they’re $100 which to me is a steel compared to the the fact that the the crappy 2023 XFL jerseys were I think what almost $200 a jersey and they were pretty pathetic one thing I will comment on the Orlando jerse Orlando Guardians Jersey good night these things are hideous looking for the believe it’s their home jerseys I think those were the home one no they’re the uh yeah the home jerseys cuz the away ones were just the white ones but these jerseys are horrendous I picked up a few things we we will they should be here this upcoming week uh during Thanksgiving week and I’ll do a video on it but you have that and then the other thing is like the UF or go the UFL Collectibles so they have a whole different store set up through their exchange uh UFL Collectibles featuring exclusive items from the XFL usfl and newly combined UFL own up piece of history from the league that redefine football they have stuff from the XFL in 2001 um game issued helmets player used helmets as well um they have 2022 usfl coach skip Holtz Birmingham stallions play card a little pricey um game used footballs from different UFL usfl games they also have uh a mic clip that goes over your mic for NBC Sports and Fox Sports a 2002 usfl inaugural weekend 41622 game ticket New Jersey generals and stallions $80 for this thing I have like four of these things when I went there um with my daughter for that game but as you can see they have game jerseys they have helmets from the 2020 uh two UFL season Breakers the MERS and it just again this is just the tap of what they have that they will be posting over the next couple days or whatnot but this is amazing they have cleat they have a cleat I kid you not I don’t it’s somewhere on here but they also have UFL championship game used uh from kickoff from the kickoff itself uh depending on the team Birmingham or uh the San Antonio but they have a game used cleat from Brandon Aubrey in the UF usfl in 2022 which is absolutely awesome they have Birmingham Thunder Thunderbolts jerseys from 2001 that were worn by players um they have numbers some have names on them they have the helmets to go along with it here’s the Brandon Aubrey Birmingham stallions cleat which is crazy this is absolutely amazing Brian Scott Philadelphia Stars 2022 game waren Jersey versus the New Orleans Breakers this is crazy like if I had 20 extra couple $299 laying around that would be mine um they have gloves the other one trying to find here is the UFL Jersey because they have as you can see here the uh Justin Hall Houston Ru necks Jersey they actually have his Jersey used Jersey from last season and let me tell you man this is absolutely amazing this may be mine soon we’ll see I I’m waiting I’ve heard some rumors of some other players they may be putting up um they have Luis Perez’s uh New Jersey generals game Warren Rell speed Flex football helmet pretty expensive on that part but these are just crazy absolutely awesome awesome some awesome things that the leak essentially has provided to this collectible store that are all author like they all come with a uh s a form from the UFL signature and everything showing their authentic and everything like that now a thing that most people may not know about the XFL when Danny and Dwayne bought it out of bankruptcy this was there was an interview probably about a month or two after the bankruptcy went through and they bought the league or had it that they got a warehouse full of U XFL stuff from 2001 all the way up through the 2020 season and that’s what we’re seeing here on this website now now of course with the usfl fox and everything they’re providing all their stuff as well from the usfl Legacy Seasons but this is awesome I can’t wait to have what I bought in my hands it’ll be on the show I will show everybody it but the opportunity to own this is absolutely amazing because I already own game issued jerseys away away jersey for the Las Vegas Outlaws from 2001 I have a game issued uh Arlington or Dallas Renegades away away jersey from 2020 season and the opportunity to potentially if they post them to get an Arlington Renegades one from 2023 or potentially a game warn Jersey from this past UFL season would just absolutely floor me because it would complete kind of my collection I have going on of these uh game issued uh jerseys from each of the XFL Seasons it’d be absolutely awesome to have and a great collectible at that but definitely check it out I’ll put the link in the comments as or in the uh description as well and then we’ll see you back here on the flip side have a great one everyone
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