{"id":590020,"date":"2026-04-17T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590020\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:56:06","slug":"the-ufl-continues-to-have-mixed-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590020\/","title":{"rendered":"The UFL continues to have mixed success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through three weeks of its third season following the merger of the USFL and the XFL, the UFL continues to have mixed success.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Fisher of Sports Business Journal has <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/16\/checking-in-on-the-ufl-through-three-weeks\/?publicationSource=newsletters&amp;issue=69e10f6ac2aa6f1ed6215f74&amp;utm_source=sbj&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">taken a look at the numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Attendance continues to be an issue in Dallas and Houston. The Dallas Renegades, who have moved to a smaller stadium, have averaged only 6,601 fans through three games. For last weekend\u2019s game against the Columbus Aviators, the venue seemed to be largely empty on TV.<\/p>\n<p>The new teams are doing OK. Columbus had 14,810 at one home game. Louisville is averaging 12,558. Orlando is at 9,857 through two home games.<\/p>\n<p>The ratings are split, too. On Sunday, Birmingham at St. Louis broke the 1 million barrier on ABC, with 968,000 watching the front end of the doubleheader (Columbus at Dallas). The Week 2 game between Louisville and Orlando, in contrast, attracted a sluggish 308,000. That same weekend, Birmingham-Houston was seen by only 196,000 on NFL Network.<\/p>\n<p>The explanation for low ratings is the presence of sports alternatives in the same windows. But that\u2019s always going to be a factor for spring football. From NCAA basketball to the NBA to the NHL to the MLB, there will be other options from other sports during their normal playing seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it will take time for the UFL to reach its ceiling. It\u2019s still not known how high the ceiling for any spring football league will ever be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through three weeks of its third season following the merger of the USFL and the XFL, the UFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-590020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}