california redwoods

After finishing the inaugural UFL season 2-4, and playing two home games at AT&T Park in San Francisco and one home game at San Jose State, the California Redwoods will move to their permanent home in Sacramento, California.

The team will be renamed leaving the Redwoods moniker behind them. Dennis Green will return as Head Coach and assume General Manager duties.

He and owner Paul Pelosi were welcomed to Sacramento on Wednesday by Mayor Kevin Johnson.

After failing to make a big splash in the San Francisco market, and failing to draw big crowds in the California bay area it looks like the UFL's California Redwoods will move to Sacramento and rename their franchise with a nickname that is more native to the Sacramento area.

It also looks like the club will take on two local Sacramento minority owners and work towards establishing itself as a sports team worth caring about.

What can we say about the second worst team in a brand new football league? Through the final weeks of the UFL season they were the most improved UFL team, and although they could only beat the hapless New York Sentinels in back to back weeks they gave the Florida Tuskers and the Las Vegas Locos all they could handle.

It seems heir biggest problem was closing games out; this is a team that could play well for a half but never deliver the knock out blow to their opponents.

The Florida Tuskers have completed the inaugural UFL season a perfect 6-0, and while that is a great accomplishment, the league has a few other things to be proud of.

A lot has been written, or not written about the success of this league, the low attendance, and the low TV ratings, but after watching the game between the Tuskers and the California Redwoods last night, one this is assured the quality of play on the field is a strong selling point for this league.

Now they just have to figure out how to get more people in the stands, and more people to watch the TV broadcasts.

As the premier season of the UFL comes to a close this week, and the league looks to expand into new markets for year two, we have to wonder if this league belongs in the big market of New York.

The New York Sentinels have the second worst average attendance behind just the California Redwoods. They are averaging just 6,637 fans per home game and in a town like New York that makes them insignificant.

Granted this team is 0-5 and will likely finish year one without a win, but a new league can ill afford its New York team to draw so poorly.