A national spring football league for high school players is set to launch next April with Phoenix among 12 major cities to have a team, according to an Associated Press report.

The NFL again enjoyed boffo ratings in 2021, and college football remains a top draw — and arguably is the main competitor to spring football as a true developmental league.

Another failed spring football league is seeking a comeback. The United States Football League, which previously existed for three seasons in the mid-1980s, will be returning to action next spring ...

What To Watch For. Another former spring football league, the XFL, is planning to return for the 2023 season, under an ownership group that includes Dwayne Johnson.The XFL was founded in 1999 by ...

The USFL is relaunching in 2022, four decades after the spring football league's short-lived run that featured such stars as Reggie White, Herschel Walker, Steve Young and Jim Kelly, ...

The idea of one spring league surviving seemed a tall task, let alone two. Financially, it had to happen. Forbes reported that the latest iteration of the XFL lost millions in 2023 and cut some jobs.

Thirty-seven years later, the USFL is ready to return. The failed football league of the 1980s, which met its death in the form of an antitrust lawsuit spearheaded by then-New Jersey Generals owner… ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — NBC Sports president Jon Miller knows the perils of starting a spring football league. He was with NBC when the network teamed with Vince McMahon and World Wrestling ...

A proposed spring football league for some of the top players in high school football is in the works to begin as soon as next year in 12 cities across the country. Phoenix is on the list. Brian ...

The league might still be around today if it had stuck to the plan laid out by New Orleans businessman David Dixon, who believed there was a market for pro football in the spring and early summer.

The National Spring Football League for one season in 2000, the United Football League in 2009, the Alliance of American Football in 2019 and now, most recently, the XFL for a second time in 2020.

Woods thought a spring football league would be intriguing—and that the intellectual property of the former USFL could be available. He did some legal research and found many of the USFL ...