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USFL, XFL in talks on merger for 2024 season

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The leagues hope to finalize the deal — which would need regulatory approval — before the start of the 2024 season.

first reported the potential dealThe upstart leagues competed against one another last year — including for air time during a two-month overlap of their seasons.and played its first season with eight teams from April-July.

In its original iteration, the USFL presented itself as a spring alternative to the NFL, luring the likes of Herschel Walker and Steve Young in their first seasons as pros, though it shuttered in 1986 after three seasons. Dwayne ‘The Rock Johnson’ hypes up the crowd before the game between the XFL’s Arlington Renegades and the Vegas Vipersand Dany Garcia, bought the league after it filed for bankruptcy in 2020 and resurrected it earlier this year.

 

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