The United Football League launched its season on Friday evening, and the match did not have much to offer, not that there were a lot of fans in the stands to complain.
St. Louis’ Battlehawks beat the Houston 31-6 Roughnecks in a match that has never been competitive. Battlehawks, Manny Wilkins, completed 17 of the 22 passes for 189 yards and also run for 43 yards and two affected. The quarters of the Roughnecks were Anthony Brown and Nolan Henderson, who combined to go a figure of 29 lamentable for 76 yards with two interceptions. The best line of statistics belonged to Battlehawks as a balloon holder Jarveon Howard, who had 13 races for 115 yards.
The biggest question for the UFL is whether it can attract enough fans to survive. Houston’s Tdecu stadium stands were mainly empty. We do not yet know how many viewers were watching the match on Fox, but it is difficult to believe that the public was particularly strong. During the football season, the NFL reigns supreme among American sports fans, university football is next and other sports are far behind. But in the spring, the UFL is not even close to the point where a large number of fans will choose football from the minor leagues during the madness of March and the opening weekend of Major League Baseball.
He would have made much more sense for the UFL to open his season in Saint-Louis, where the Battlehawks attracted more than 40,000 fans In their home opening match last year. St. Louis is full of football fans who are still not satisfied that the Rams were taken and eager to show that their city can support a professional team. It is the city where the opening of the UFL season would have felt a great event. In Houston Friday evening, the UFL looked a lot like a minor league.