2010 United Football League Media Guide
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TABLE OF CONTENTS UNITED FOOTBALL LEAGUE™ League Directory ..................................................................... 5 Front O ce ............................................................................... 9 League History ....................................................................... 25 2010 Schedule ....................................................................... 33 TV Information....................................................................... 35 Florida Tuskers ....................................................................... 43 Hartford Colonials ................................................................. 85 Las Vegas Locomotives .......................................................125 Omaha Nighthawks .............................................................169 Sacramento Mountain Lions ...............................................213 Expansion 2011 ...................................................................255 2009 Season .........................................................................259 2009 Statistics ......................................................................275 ™ All Time Roster .....................................................................290 Media Guidelines .................................................................297 Compiled and edited by UFL PR sta JACKSONVILLE OFFICE NEW YORK OFFICE 135 West Bay Street 420 Lexington Ave. Suite 500 Suite 1825 Jacksonville, FL 32202 New York, NY 10170 Layout and design by: (ph) 904.598.1031 (ph) 212.313.5920 MomentumMedia Sports Publishing (f) 904.598.1032 (f) 212.313.5921 31 Dutch Mill Road Ithaca, New York 14850 Switchboard: 607.257.6970 Fax: 607.257.7328 3 4 LEAGUE DIRECTORY www.UFL-Football.com LEAGUE DIRECTORY ™ Bill Hambrecht Michael Preston Jack Co ey Aaron Miller UFL Founder, Owner, Las Vegas Locos Director of League Communication Consultant - Broadcasting Director, Athletic Training Tim Armstrong Geo Santini Daniella Desalvo Nick Rudd UFL Founder Vice President of Security Manager, League Development Senior Director, Strategic Planning Paul Pelosi Brian Melekian Byron Ellis Erick Schieren Owner, Sacramento Mountain Lions Director of Team Business Development Director, Football Admin - East Coast Controller Bill Mayer Peter Eiges Katherine Farmer Dusty Sloan Owner, Hartford Colonials Director of Ticket Operations Director, Special Events Sta Writer Michael Huyghue Bobby Monica Kim Fitzgerald Bill Squires Commissioner Director of Equipment Operations Jacksonville Receptionist/Administrator Consultant - Stadiums & Facilities Bill Peterson Nation Hahn Glenn, Blake Mike Trager Chief Operating O cer Director of Digital Media Enterprises Licensing, Account Executive Consultant - Broadcasting Craig Phillips Veronica Bryan Lauren Hickey Brodie Waters Chief Financial O cer Director of Human Resources Manager, Public Relations Consultant - Salary Cap Bill Uglow Seth Auser Kurt Hornsby Kat Welch Sr. VP of Consumer Products & Licensing Merchandise, Account Executive Assistant to the Commissioner Manager, Public Relations Matt Couloute Katy Axtell Eddy Janczewski Clinton Wu Vice President & General Counsel Administrative Assistant Director, Football Admin - West Coast Senior Director, Business Development Tomas Llibre Jibu Banerji Brandy Jaworski Vice President of Information Technologies Public Relations Manager Assistant to Bill Peterson & Bill Uglow Media Enquiries: Ed Reynolds Ben Barilich Billy Kirk Tel: 904-598-1031 / Ext 8 President, Virginia Franchise Manager, Marketing/Corp Development Webmaster Email: [email protected] Larry Upson Dean Blandino Peter Lasser [email protected] Vice President of O ciating Operations Consultant - Video/Replay Consultant - Broadcasting Brendan Rowe Stacey Brooks Olivier Manigat Vice President of Football Administration O ce Manager/Team Accountant League Attorney 7 8 FRONT OFFICE OWNER/EXECUTIVE BIOS ™ Bill Hambrecht Armstrong joined Google from Snowball.com as that company's vice president UFL Founder of Sales and Strategic Partnerships. Prior to his role at Snowball.com, Armstrong Owner, Las Vegas Locos served as director of Integrated Sales & Marketing at Starwave's and Disney's ABC/ESPN Internet Ventures working across the companies Internet, TV, radio, Bill Hambrecht has been in the securities business since 1958. and print properties. A co-founder of Hambrecht & Quist in 1968, he resigned in He started his career by co-founding and running a newspaper based in Boston, December 1997 to form WR Hambrecht + Co. Mr. Hambrecht MA, before joining IDG to launch their first consumer Internet magazine, I-Way. has served as a director for numerous private and public companies. He currently serves as a Director for Motorola Inc. Armstrong has been named one of the top "100 People to Know" for global and is on the Board of Trustees for The American University of Beirut. He also media by Media Magazine and was awarded a Media Maven Award by serves on the Advisory Council to The J. David Gladstone Institutes and is on the Advertising Age in 2004. He sits on the boards of the Interactive Advertising board of Majestic Research. In October, 2006, Bill was inducted to the American Bureau (IAB), KnowledgeStorm Inc., and the Ad Council. Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Hambrecht graduated from Princeton Armstrong is a graduate of Connecticut College with a double major in University in 1957. Economics and Sociology. A sports enthusiast, Mr. Hambrecht has been working towards forming an alternative league to the NFL since the mid- 1990’s. Paul Pelosi WR Hambrecht + Co is a differentiated and disruptive financial services firm Owner, Sacramento Mountain Lions that is using the Internet and auction process to create a level playing field Paul Pelosi is an investment banker with more than 40 years for investors and issuers. The firm’s impartial internet-based auctions are experience in finance and management. Since 1974 Pelosi dramatically changing the financial services landscape by allowing the market to has had his own firm, Financial Leasing Services, Inc., a determine pricing and allocation. The most well-known, OpenIPO®, is an auction San Francisco-based diversified investment and consulting for initial public offerings that allows individuals and institutional investors to company. His activities are equally divided between real estate bid online for shares of an IPO. All investors end up paying the same price – a development projects and venture capital investments. price determined by the auction. WR Hambrecht + Co clients are disruptive innovators in any industry or market segment. WR Hambrecht + Co has offices in Pelosi sits on the boards of many philanthropic and corporate Boards in San San Francisco, New York, Boston and Philadelphia. Francisco and in Washington D.C. where his wife, Nancy Pelosi, presides over Congress as Speaker of the House. Currently, Pelosi serves as Chairman on the Georgetown University School’s of Foreign Service’s Board of Visitors, the Tim Armstrong San Francisco War Memorial Board of Trustees, the National Institute of Health UFL Founder Children's Inn, the University of California Medical School Foundation, City Car Services, LLC and Matthews International Capital Management, LLC. In March of 2009, Tim Armstrong was named Chairman & CEO of AOL. Armstrong previously served as the Vice President of Pelosi is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and Advertising for Google where he presided over Google's North studied business at the graduate schools of New York University and Harvard. American advertising sales, operations and commerce teams. 11 12 OWNER/EXECUTIVE BIOS ™ William E. Mayer Jaguars in the team’s inaugural NFL season. During Huyghue’s tenure with Owner, Hartford Colonials the Jaguars, the team became the winningest franchise in expansion history, achieving two AFC Central Division Championships and an unprecedented two William E. Mayer, co-founder of Park Avenue Equity, has been AFC Championship appearances. involved in private equity investing for more than 35 years. Huyghue has served on many of the NFL Commissioner's prominent committees, Mayer worked for The First Boston Corporation (now Credit including the NFL Management Council, the Executive Working Group Suisse), a major investment bank, for 23 years. During his career Committee, the NFL College Advisory Committee, the NFL Europe League, and as at First Boston, he held numerous management positions a Trustee of the NFL Players Insurance Trust. Prior to joining the UFL, Huyghue including President and Chief Executive Officer. Mayer served was CEO and founder of Axcess Sports & Entertainment, where he represented as Chairman of First Boston’s Investment Committee for eight years. a number of NFL, NBA and PGA TOUR players. The Sports Business Journal has Mayer was a Professor and Dean of the College of Business at the University twice named Huyghue to the “Forty Under 40” Top Sports Business Executives. of Maryland from 1992 through 1996. He is currently a board member of the Huyghue earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, where he following public companies: BlackRock Kelso and Lee Enterprises, and is a starred as a football and baseball player, and earned his law degree from the trustee of the Columbia Group of Mutual Funds. Over the past 30 years, Mayer University of Michigan. He currently resides in Jacksonville, FL with his wife and has been a board member of numerous other public