WEST JORDAN — Now it feels real.
The Salt Lake Stallions, Utah’s newest professional football team that will begin play in February 2019 in the eight-team Alliance of American Football, unveiled their uniforms Tuesday on the same night the franchise drafted their first-round quarterback.
“We’ve been doing this for a long time now,” Stallions team president Tyler Howell told KSL.com Tuesday night. “But with the uniform unveil, the quarterback draft, this is really where it starts. In 74 days, we’ll be playing real football in Salt Lake; how cool is that? It’s exciting.”
While most fans likely won’t recognize Josh Woodrum, the 6-foot-3, 230-pound former NFL free agent who played at Liberty University, they will recognize a host of other names like Jeremiah Poutasi and Cardon Malan, the ex-Utah and Weber State stars, respectively, who were allocated to the first-year franchise that puts a premium on regional ties.