Cool concept but don’t really think it’ll move the needle from a fan standpoint. Why there’s no league wide fantasy football now is still beyond me.
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This is a boilerplate article about Dany Garcia’s media appearance at the UFL training camp on Wednesday 12 March by CFL Forum favourite James Larsen 
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but he is NOT a CFL Forum friend, so please don’t misunderstand me. 
From Garcia’s comments, I don’t think anybody is going out on a limb that make-or-break for the UFL will also rest upon not just good, but outstanding performance in TV ratings on Friday nights, starting two weeks from today!:
Friday night success for the UFL would not only be a firmer start to the already troubled future in store for 2026, but I think it’s show or no-go on this front for the UFL.
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Well here we go.
Enter I bet Jerry Jones discreetly to say a few words or pass a few words in a meeting perhaps this afternoon or Monday morning with Daryl “Moose” Johnston and others so as know to determine how to proceed.
Will Jerry Jones et al continue to take the hard line?
Remember folks, Jones was in that NFL brain trust who insisted on taking the hard line with the NFL referees back in 2012.
Jones has been an advocate of spring football and finding the diamonds in the rough since at least the XFL 1.0, mind you, which he complimented even after its demise as a collaboration between Vince McMahon and NBC Sports, headed then by Dick Ebersol.
I have no doubt that Jones is in the room for any important decisions, including before decisive action, for it’s not like he’s far away right there in Arlington, Texas.
Many including me saw little or no good for the owners coming out of the strong-arm tactics from earlier this week that involved alleged unlawful intimidation to “set the proper example for the others,” as cited in the letter on the alleged unlawful termination of Dormady and as implied altogether in that letter, even though the timing of such adverse consequences was unknown.
But here we are already as the matter has quickly turned legal.
Related Aside - Ego, It Happens, But Unchecked, It’s More Expensive Than Ever
Sometimes all it takes is THAT GUY or THOSE DUDES whose egos are way ahead of prudent business and legal reality, especially here in 2025 with an abundance of evidence via technology and social media and not like when they were roughing others up back in even 2005.
Or in this UFL example, well the investors could simply line up all players with health insurance when under contract for the year unless cut and released anyway (and then the insurance continues for any injuries sustained during employment), because, uh, they are pro football players, and pro football players experience injuries, duh, right?
As an example of egos getting themselves into hot water, I had been in court proceedings until recently with a matter resolved and in my favour without the need to go to trial, which at the core should hardly have dragged on for the more than two years my situation did, and just why was that?
I will never know the whole story for a generally small case for sure, though damaging enough that damages would not simply disappear unchecked, and the root of much of the matter was simply the right-hand left-hand problem that is in most companies of even modest size (i.e. bureaucracy and mismanagement at best), but I guarantee there was at least one person early on in a management or executive position who, instead of fixing a situation that was easily resolvable, figured he or she could bluff my hand or who reached early for the legal guns to attempt to compensate for some shortcoming, because again, EGO.
It’s natural to have an ego and to exercise it to some degree, and that is not the issue, but an unchecked ego in modern times will be generally expensive to feed whether you are and/or end up right or wrong. I certainly learned that hard lesson myself long ago, as do many guys.
So the UFL braintrust can either choose to just pay up now and catch the wave of Friday Night Lights if it a huge success, for that is what either would break the league in the event of its failure or would be a major part of the UFL in making it, or this disagreement is now going to get a whole lot more expensive for the UFL braintrust, including no season in 2025 or ever again (or at least never the same, which is already reality for 2026 no matter what).
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