I wish I was more talented so I could make things like this. Thanks to Drab Vendrell for the heads up on this vid. We are late to the party. DJ Steve Porter FTW.

Mike Florio from Pro Football Talk has been all over this story and I admit, my interest is starting to peak. The United Football League is billing itself as “…Where The Future Star’s Come to Play!” The concept is strong. Play some football games during the football season when America’s appetite for the game is insaciable. There are only 6 games and 4 teams so the talent will not be completely diluted, and it seems they have the right idea with not trying to take on the NFL directly. The aspect of this League that I think is most interesting is the list of NFL and big time college coaches that are being drawn to the UFL. Profootballtalk has the rundown:

The league also has named San Francisco coach Dennis Green to be the chair of the UFL’s Competition Committee, pointing out that he once held that same role in the NFL.  Here are a few key points regarding Tuesday’s developments. First, the UFL points out that 85 percent of assistant coaches have worked in the NFL as a player or a coach. 

Second, former AFL coach and NFL assistant Jay Gruden, the brother of Jon Gruden, will serve as offensive coordinator of the franchise headquartered in Orlando.

Third, despite prior media reports that former Stanford, Notre Dame, and Washington coach Ty Willingham will be working for Dennis Green in San Francisco, Willingham’s name does not appear in the release.  (He might eventually be named — Green’s team has not identified a special teams coordinator, a quarterbacks coach, a receivers coach, or a defensive line coach.)

Fourth, we sort of expected former Colts offensive line coach Howard Mudd or former Colts offensive coordinator Tom Moore to do a year with the UFL, if for no reason other than to stick it to the NFL.  Neither man has resurfaced with the new league.  Yet.

The Las Vegas franchise will employ the following coaches under Jim Fassel:  Isaac Carter, defensive backs; Donald Eck, offensive line; Sam Garnes, defensive assistant; Larry Mac Duff, defensive coordinator/special teams; Charles Shelton, director of football operations/running backs; Eric Van Heusen, special teams/tight ends; Michael Wilson, wide receivers; Kevin Wolthausen, defensive line.

The following coaches will work for the New York team under Ted Cottrell:  Donald Blackmon, defensive coordinator; Derrick Burroughs, administrative assistant/defensive assistant; Earle Mosley, running backs; John Tice, offensive line; Pete Rodriguez, special teams.

The Orlando team led by Jim Haslett will have the following men on his staff:  Bill Bradley, secondary; Chuck Bresnahan, linebackers; Jay Gruden, offensive coordinator; Carl Hairston, defensive line; Bill Laveroni, offensive line; Sean McVay, quality control/wide receivers; Ricky Porter, director of football operations/running backs; Al Roberts, special teams/tight ends.

The San Fran team will include the following assistants to Dennis Green:  Martin Bayless, defensive backs; Trent Bray, linebackers/quality control; Charles Collins, receivers/tight ends; Robert Griffith, defensive assistant; Art Kehoe, offensive line; Mike Kruczek, offensive coordinator; Mike McDaniel, running backs/quality control; Sid Pillai, director of football operations; Brian Stewart, defensive coordinator.

These are coaches that have had success at the highest level of competition in American football.  Granted there are good reasons they were availible, but I still think it’s a great sign of things to come.  The XFL and USFL failed because they wanted to take on the NFL.  The UFL seems to be aiming to work WITH the NFL in a similar manner to what the AFL was doing until this past year.  As an admitted football junkie, I say as long as the quality of play is not abysmal, I am looking forward to another fix for my addiction come autum.

I’m not breaking any news here, but I wanted to comment on Tebow’s choice to come back to Florida next year for his senior year.  That and the way he announced it.  It was epic.  It was “beating Halo on Legendary” Epic.  It was “banging a pig and not having yer friends find out” epic.  It was “eating junk food all night and drinking 1000 beers then puking but being so drunk you don’t remember puking until next morning so you realized that you are not going to gain 5 pounds for being such a glutton” type of epic.  It was THAT good.  Look there are lots of places to see the official video of Tebow’s announcement. The one above is from a fan in the crowd.  The quality is putrid, but the roar you hear at about a minute forty into said vid is worth it.  How can you not love that?  I root for Georgia and I couldn’t hate that.

Tebow is overexposed, and I find that annoying.  That being said, it isn’t his fault.  This kid is perfect and it’s irritating.  He’s humble, he’s giving, he’s likeable, he’s tough and he’s a hell of a football player.  He absolutely made the right choice in returning the the Gators.  People I have said this to think I’m nuts, but I don’t think he should ever enter the NFL draft.  He has a chance to win yet another national title and another Heisman.  If he does either or gets close to both, you could argue he’s the best college football player of all time.  Florida is a college football state.  Ask the Jags and Phins.  Tebow would have work in that state for 1000 life times.  He is extremely pious so the only draw money would have for him is to help others.  Why go to the NFL and fail, which I think he would?  You have one team that runs the Wildcat on a regular basis and that’s all I think he can do.  He can’t run over Terrell Suggs and he can’t throw that wobbly ass long ball past DeAngelo Hall.  What he can do is stay in the Sunshine State and do anything he wants.  I hope the young man and the people surrounding him realize that.

When goofy refs get invovled in the game, I get very excited.  When they get wiped out on a screen pass or get tangled up with a wideout, I LOL all over the place. “He’s giving him the business” is one of the greatest youtube videos of all time.  Referees are all terrible and in the way, and it’s hilarious that they have this much power over the greatest atheletes in the world.  The clip above takes the cake thought.  LSU is playing South Carolina and it seems that one of the refs is having a flashback to his football days.  I don’t want to ruin it, but lets just say he takes matters into this own hands.  Enjoy.