2010 UFL season The 2010 United Football League season was the second season of the United Football League . The regular season ran from September 18 to November 20 and featured five teams playing eight games each ( twice against each of the other teams ) over a 10 - week span . The 2010 season was a relatively competitive one as no team won more than five games , and no team lost more than five . The season ended with the 2010 UFL Championship Game on November 27 at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha , Nebraska , where the Las Vegas Locomotives defeated the Florida Tuskers , 23 – 20 . League changes for 2010 . The UFL based its plans for 2010 in part on the lessons learned from its inaugural season in 2009 , a year the league considered a modest " dress rehearsal " . One of the lessons learned from 2009 was that the league performed better in cities that did not have a NFL presence . To that end , the league relocated two of their 2009 franchises away from NFL markets : The New York Sentinels were relocated to Hartford , Connecticut ( where they played one home game in 2009 ) and were renamed the Hartford Colonials , while the California Redwoods , a team based in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2009 , were moved to Sacramento , California and became the Sacramento Mountain Lions . Rentschler Field and Hornet Stadium are the respective home venues for the Colonials and Mountain Lions . Along with the above franchise shifts , the league set forth to add two new franchises ; San Antonio , Texas was considered as the leading candidate for a new team along with Salt Lake City , Los Angeles , and Omaha . Civic leaders in San Antonio were cool to the league ' s advances , however , citing previous failed football teams in the city and the fear that the UFL ' s presence would hinder the University of Texas at San Antonio ' s launch of its Division I college football team in 2011 . Instead , the league added just one franchise for 2010 , the Omaha Nighthawks , who spent 2010 at Rosenblatt Stadium before moving downtown to TD Ameritrade Park Omaha for 2011 . Three of the four charter teams retained their ownership from the previous year , though some sold portions of their teams to minority owners . The lone exception was the Florida Tuskers ; Stuart Sternberg pulled out of ownership after the 2009 season and filed legal action against the league for funds he believes is owed to his company , Sunburst Entertainment Group . After spending the offseason and the first four weeks of the season under league ownership , a group led by Joe Theismann purchased the Tuskers in October 2010 . NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson agreed to purchase the Omaha Nighthawks . Mark Cuban also loaned the league $ 5 million in April 2010 ; in January 2011 , he filed a federal lawsuit against the league after they had yet to re - pay the loan . To account for the odd number of teams ( five ) , each team played an eight - game schedule over a 10 - week span ( as opposed to six games in seven weeks during 2009 ) ; two bye weeks for each team were included . The schedule ' s double round robin format will remain intact . Also , all of the games are being played in the teams ' home stadia , as opposed to the neutral site " barnstorming " approach used for some of the 2009 games . In another change from 2009 , the UFL strengthened local exposure of its teams , including radio coverage ( see " Broadcasting " below ) and the establishment of training camps and practices at sites in each team ' s market . ( During 2009 , the teams trained and practiced in two sites , Orlando and Casa Grande , Arizona . ) Additionally , each team gained their own uniform identity for 2010 , loosening them from the standard league colors ( green , blue , black , silver ) and uniform template used in 2009 . Broadcasting . The 2010 season was the second and final year in the UFL ' s initial broadcast deals with HDNet and Versus ; HDNet carried 10 regular season games , while Versus carried 8 games plus the championship game . In addition , the league gained its first partnership with a regional network — the New England - based NESN , which carried 2 Hartford Colonials home games . The league website provided live and archived video streaming for all games , while YouTube provided a live HD simuclast of Versus ' Championship Game broadcast with additional content . Also , UFL games were carried on radio for the first time , with each team having their own flagship station : Team schedules . Win Championship Game . The 2010 UFL Championship was held on November 27 , 2010 ( two days after Thanksgiving ) and involved the Las Vegas Locomotives and Florida Tuskers , who finished first and second , respectively , in the league standings . The Locomotives won the championship game for the second straight year , beating the Tuskers 23 - 20 behind an MVP performance by quarterback Chase Clement and a blocked field goal by defensive lineman Alfred Malone on the final play . The game was played at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha , Nebraska , which was chosen as host venue on October 18 , 2010 , after the league employed a formula that took into consideration " advance ticket and merchandise sales , energy for all events prior to the season starting , and team record " to determine the site . ( The first - year Nighthawks sold out each of their 4 home games , including the first UFL game with over 20 , 000 in attendance . ) Attendance . The UFL ' s attendance generally improved from its inaugural season ; in that year , the average attendance was 9 , 678 spectators per game , with one game as low as 4 , 312 fans and the highest - attended game at less than 18 , 187 . For the 20 home dates in the 2010 regular season , crowd numbers ranged from a high of 23 , 554 ( Las Vegas at Omaha on October 28 ) to a low of 8 , 451 ( Hartford at Las Vegas on October 23 ) . The league ' s newest markets - Omaha , Sacramento , and Hartford — were the front runners in attendance , with the Nighthawks selling out all 4 of their home games and never failing to draw less than 21 , 000 to Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium . The Mountain Lions and Colonials saw marked improvements from their 2009 seasons in the San Francisco and New York markets , respectively . After being the attendance leaders in 2009 , both Las Vegas and Florida suffered noticeable declines at the turnstiles during 2010 . The crowd decrease for the Locos , coupled with a high rate of rent at Sam Boyd Stadium , led the league and team management to consider a smaller , more affordable home stadium for 2011 , such as Cashman Field . Note that in the table below , numbers for the Sacramento Mountain Lions are rounded to the nearest 500 spectators ; Sacramento did not give out exact ticket counts and only offered estimates .