United States Football League is about two months away from kicking off its inaugural season in Birmingham, Alabama. The games will be held at Protective Stadium, part of the University of Alabama-Birmingham, with a number of additional games also staged at historic Legion Field.
The first game will feature the New Jersey Generals against the Birmingham Stallions and will kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 16 and will air on FOX.RELATED: New USFL reveals team names, cities, logos for 2022 seasonThe eight teams will be split into two divisions: North and South.
Each team will play 10 games, with each team within the division playing each other twice and once with a team from the opposite division.
The top two teams will then play in a championship game in Canton, Ohio.The league announced longtime NFL coach Jeff Fisher will be leading the Michigan Panthers.