USFL 2.0 is launching this Saturday, with every game this season taking place at Protective Stadium and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. Will there be a big appetite for spring football even as Major League Baseball is underway, the NBA playoffs start that same weekend, and the NHL playoffs are not too far away? Probably not, but that won’t stop the efforts to create another football league.
The Alliance of American Football collapsed and didn’t even complete its inaugural season back in 2019. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic ended the XFL’s second go-round early.