Tags: American Football League, Sports League.
The United Football League was a professional minor league American football league that operated between 1961 and 1964. It had eight teams primarily based in the Midwestern United States. After the league folded several surviving teams would go on to form the Continental Football League.The league was founded in 1961 as a minor league alternative to the National Football League and American Football League. Based in the Midwest it drew many of its players from the Big Ten college conference.