{"id":211878,"date":"2026-03-30T16:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/211878\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:57:13","slug":"orlando-storm-kicks-off-spring-football-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/211878\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Storm kicks off spring football season"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Thousands of sports fans are celebrating the return of spring football to Central Florida.<\/p>\n

More than 11,000 people watched Sunday as the Orlando Storm kicked off its first United Football League season with a 23-16 win against the Columbus Aviators at Inter&Co Stadium.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

The Orlando Storm earned a win against the Columbus Aviators, starting off strong in its first UFL season as spring football returns to the city
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Last year, the UFL announced three teams were changing cities to play smaller venues, including Orlando
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The 10-week schedule includes four games in Orlando<\/p>\n

The UFL announced last year that three of its eight teams were changing cities<\/a>: Orlando, Columbus, and Louisville.<\/p>\n

League officials said the move was planned to get the teams playing in smaller venues like Inter&Co Stadium, which has a capacity of 25,500 people.<\/p>\n

UFL owner Mike Repole, who lives in Orlando, spoke about professional football returning to the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a special feeling \u2026 I\u2019m not nervous. I’m not anxious. I’m not even, like, super excited,” he said. “It’s surreal. It’s the best feeling. It’s a surreal feeling of this is going to happen.”<\/p>\n

The 10-week schedule includes four games in Orlando. The Storm will play in other cities like Birmingham, Houston, and Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

Their next game is Saturday, April 4, against the Louisville Kings starting at 8 p.m. in Orlando.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Thousands of sports fans are celebrating the return of spring football to Central Florida. More than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1238,274,1015,28,1236,115,1335,139,141,140,4548,110,278,835],"class_list":["post-211878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-emma-delamo","tag-florida","tag-florida-sports","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-professional-football","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}