Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe United States Football League won’t just kick off its inaugural season on April 16. It will also use the date to launch a new behind-the-scenes docuseries aimed at getting fans more interested in its spring football efforts.“United By Football,” a 13-episode documentary series produced by the league, NFL Films and Fox Sports, will try to give fans a feel for what happens as cadre of hopeful athletes compete in the USFL, a new league controlled by Fox that will have its games broadcast on both the Fox and NBC broadcast networks.
The one-hour series premiere will debut at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 16 on Fox leading into the league’s first game of the season between the New Jersey Generals and the Birmingham Stallions at 7:30 p.m.
Twelve more half-hour episodes will follow, one a week during the season. All the episodes will debut first on Fox, preceding most USFL game and pre-game coverage.
Each episode will have an encore showing the following week on Fox Sports 1 and the streaming-video outlet Tubi.“Hundreds of hours of material will be filmed, screened, and edited to produce what will no doubt be seven compelling hours of programming for football fans across America,” says Joel Santos, executive producer at Fox Sports, in a statement.There’s good reason for interest in more football.
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