Maybe they’ll name the UFL championship award the Jim Fassel Trophy.
The Las Vegas Locomotives, coached by Fassel, won the UFL championship for the second time in the league’s two-year existence, with a 23-20 win over the Florida Tuskers.
And just like last year, the game featured a great finish. Las Vegas defensive lineman Alfred Malone blocked a 45-yard field goal attempt by Florida kicker Nick Novak as time expired to seal the win.
Last year, the Locos won the game in overtime.
The official attendance at Omaha’s Rosenblatt Stadium, which holds more than 24,000, was 15,310. Every game played there by the Nighthawks had been a sellout.
Trailing 21-17 with fewer than eight minutes to play, the Tuskers opted for a 22-yard Nick Novak field goal, cutting the score to 21-20. The Locos added a safety with 5:41 to play, pushing the score to 23-20.
Now that the UFL season has ended, players from all five teams are in play to join the NFL. UFL players may be signed to practice squads at no charge; for players signed to active rosters, the UFL has indicated an intention to enforce a $150,000 transfer fee. UFL Commissioner Michael Huyghue hinted on Friday’s Dan Patrick Show that the fee is negotiable. Huyghue also suggested that, once one NFL team writes a check to the UFL for the right to write checks to a UFL player, others will follow suit.
