Reported XFL and USFL merger may not save springtime football, San Antonio expert says

The XFL and USFL leagues are in advanced merger talks, Axios reports — a transaction that could keep semi-pro springtime football, including the San Antonio Brahmas, alive in the short term. Even so, such a marriage may do little but prolong the inevitable demise of both leagues, one local expert said. "My point of view is that I don't see the XFL lasting very long," Ricard Jensen, a senior sports marketing lecturer at the University of Texas San Antonio, told the Current earlier this summer. "The only thing that might work is for there to be some type of merger with the USFL.