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The United Football League (UFL) plans to begin its first season in August of next season, even though the league has yet to decide which cities will host its six teams. Previously, the biggest news the UFL made was when its commissioner said he would welcome Michael Vick into the league . ...
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This UFL Logo Is Easy To Swallow, But Hard To Take In [United Football League]
Deadspin — ... Remember that Communications 101 class you took where you'd spend hours inspecting the Land O Lakes package with a magnifying glass to search for penis-shaped trees? That was fun. But thankfully the United Football League has taken a less than subtle approach with its subliminal message. Yes, it very well could be a football launching a star out of it — or, as Ufford says, a "clam eating a starfish" — but whatever it is, it's obviously meant to titillate the senses in a way that most other professional football league logos do not. You know, ones that don't rely ...

Lost Time Is Not Found Again: Dec. 4, 2008
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog — ... Now the UFL has unveiled its new logo, a blue and green shield with a football enjoined with a star.  Yep.  Definitely a football and a star.  Well, maybe if I squint a little and use my imagination, I can see a clam eating a starfish.  But definitely not anything else.  Nosirree.  Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to watch this unrelated video loop of pistons churning, trains entering tunnels, and Georgia O’Keeffe paintings.” – Matt Ufford ...

United Football League Logo Appears To Be A Sexual Innuendo
FanIQ Blog — ... . So, in other words, not the best of publicity. But today, that all changes. That's because With Leather tracked down the new UFL logo and it's, uh, well it's interesting. ...

Speed Read: A-Rod Done With US, Now Dominican
SPORTSbyBROOKS — ... • The United Football League doesn’t have any teams yet and one of its main investors is in some trouble for insider training. But that doesn’t mean they can’t have a vaguely inappropriate logo! WITH LEATHER brings us this : ...

Dropping Links: Friday, December 5th
tonyblogs.net - Sports news, humor, videos and prognostications. — ... Chargers thump Raiders, can pretend they might make playoffs for another week |FOX Sports.com| Shaun Ellis charged in weed-and-speed incident |ESPN.com| USC OC Steve Sarkisian is new UWashington head football coach |CBS Sports.com| Brian Cashman meets with Scott Boras, CC up next |ESPN.com| Patriots may re-sign Junior Seau |SI.com| BLOGS The new United Football League unveils its logo |With Leather| Charlotte Jackson is to the UK what Erin Andrews is to the US |SPORTSbyBROOKS| Some aren’t very ...

Morning Link Dump - Reby, Rickey, Ray Allen, UFL, Barry Melrose
TheScore.com Blog — ... Ray Allen Helps Friend Survive Mumbai Terror Apparently a friend of Ray Allen's was trapped in the Oberoi Trident Hotel during the attacks, and the all-star Celtic called him up while the siege was still ongoing, giving him updates from watching the events unfold on TV, and advice on what to do if he had been discovered by the attackers. Crazy. There's A UFL Now? Apparently there is. And apparently their logo is... uh... perfectly fine. The Most Disturbing Animals On ...

POWER RANKINGS: MAAAAAAKE OUUUUUUT
With Leather — ... Jackson.  She’s no Marisa Miller, but she’s a step up from Erin Andrews. 5. Michael Phelps.  Landed him a tattooed Asian cocktail waitress from Vegas.  A guy could do worse.  A guy with 14 Olympic gold medals could do better. 6. Wunder Boner.  For all your Troy McClure-ian fish-boning needs.  Hilarity, thy name is Wunder Boner. 7. The UFL.  Its logo looks sexual.  In a related story, I’m in eighth grade. 8. ...

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