The UFL is making there presence felt as it now seems that former Denver Broncos and Houston Texans fullback, Cecil Sapp will be the next player to leave the NFL for the United Football League.

This announcement comes from his agent, David Canter's, twitter account.

A 6 year NFL veteran, the 30 year old Sapp will be utilized in both the running back and fullback positions for the New York franchise.

The Bleacher Report put out a great post that I found very interesting; I really like the part about fan involvement, heck that's how it's grown this far.

As football fans out there know, there is an upstart football league about to begin its inaugural season this fall. The UFL will play their games on Friday nights, broadcast them on Versus, and provide no real competition to the NFL in any way, which is most definitely a good thing.

Starting a new football league; sounds ludicrous considering the numerous failures of other leagues of the past but that’s just what Bill Hambrecht intends to do.

The United Football League looks to still be moving forward even with the continually economic downturn. I think the down turn only strengthens the efforts of the league as it gives fans an alternative to extremely overpriced NFL tickets that simply feed the egos of players and owners. While I probably won't get to see a game for a few years as the point for me would be to see professional football without extreme expense, I'd have to travel out of town, possibly out of state and that just cuts into the budget.

So it's a long shot, but Michael David Smith from AOL started an interesting discussion. If Michael Vick were to be convicted of dog fighting and banned from the NFL, could he be the showpiece for The United Football League? It's an interesting discussion that Michael started in response to Peter King's comments over at SI.com.

UFLAccess.com has confirmed through a source close to the league that former NFL assistant director of football development, Ed Reynolds will be in charge of the Security and Administration for the United Football League. He has a long football history serving in several positions including that of former player for both the New England Patriots and the New York Giants during his career from 1983 through 1992. This addition gives the UFL another National Football League executive that can help to increase the leagues chances for success.

So previously I wrote this would not be a minor league NFL, but lets be honest wouldn't that option do well? Instead of having talented players ride the bench while they learn a new system you could actually put them into game situations; this would allow them to further develop their skill set and get a better understanding of the plays.

I can't get enough; football, football, football and if I didn't mention it I need just one more night of football. Saturday is college game day, Sunday is NFL game day, we've got Monday Night Football and now the NFL Network has their Re-Play on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. My two boys are years away from High School and I grew up in Houston so I don't have a strong tie to any of the area schools.

I've been thinking pretty hard about it lately and if the UFL wants to compete with the NFL then they'll have to get rid of the things that really bog down the NFL.

Speed Up the Game - A major problem with the National Football League is that fact that every game is going to take at least 3 hours of your time. I love the game just as much as the next guy, but I'd love to have that same intensity and emotion compressed into 2 hours or less.

After 17 years of existence, the NFL Europe has officially been shut down. While they had a good run and produced about 3 real talents that eventually made their way to the NFL, it didn't really do much to help expand the game globally. Used as a farm league of sorts for the NFL they have suffered from financial woes for years costing the NFL between 400-500 million per year to operate.

The NFL has rules that specifically do not allow football players from turning professional until they have been out of high school a minimum of 3 years, that's a clause that could put the United Football League at a big advantage. Instead of going after players that have several years of college experience, they can go after younger players with a great deal of upside at a lower cost. As well, they can begin molding the players to their processes and systems much sooner than if they were introduced after 3 or 4 years of college.