The UFL’s Florida Tuskers are holding open tree-outs (go to the 48-second mark) in Orlando today.
According to the league’s Twitter feed, more than 600 potential players arrived.
One receiver, per UFL personnel guru Rick Mueller, ran the 40-yard dash in 4.37 seconds.
Though the America’s Got Talent-style approach (we were going to say American Idol, but it’s not on NBC) creates some Papale-style P.R., the reality is that the four UFL franchises primarily if not exclusively will consist of players who already have been signed and plenty of the 864 current NFL players who, within the next two weeks, will be former NFL players.
But, hey, you never know. Maybe there’s someone out there who has slipped through the cracks, repeatedly, and who’ll find a home in the UFL -- and who’ll parlay it into a roster spot in the NFL.
Then again, the guys likely have a better shot of winning a job with an NFL team via the purchase of scratch-and-lose lottery tickets.
