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Payton Pardee
Payton Pardee (born December 2, 1996) is an American football coach who is currently the interim head coach for the San Antonio Brahmas of the United Football League (UFL). He previously served as the wide receivers coach for the Houston Roughnecks. Pardee also played college football at Houston. Coaching career In 2019, Pardee was hired by East Texas A&M to be their wide receivers coach. In 2022, Pardee was hired by the Houston Roughnecks of the XFL to be their wide receivers coach under Wade Phillips. In 2023 during the merger of the XFL and the United States Football League, Pardee followed Phillips to the San Antonio Brahmas. In April 2025, Pardee was promoted to Offensive coordinator after A. J. Smith resigned. Smith had later remarked that Pardee had won an internal power struggle in the Brahmas organization, one that had formed because of Wade Phillips's declining health and frequent absences from the team in the preseason. Just one week later on April 16, 2025, ...
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San Antonio Brahmas
The San Antonio Brahmas are a professional American football team based in San Antonio, Texas. The Brahmas compete in the United Football League (UFL) as a member of the XFL Conference. The team is owned and operated by Dwayne Johnson's Alpha Acquico and Fox Corporation. The Brahmas play their home games at the Alamodome. The Brahmas have a franchise regular season record of 11-11 (.500). History Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia era (2023–present) The XFL played its first season in 2020 with eight teams, as a reboot to the league of the same name that played in 2001. After five games, it was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the league's April bankruptcy, the XFL had begun discussions with San Antonio to relocate one of its eight teams there. It had been unavailable as a market at the time of the league's launching due to the Alliance of American Football placing the San Antonio Commanders (that league's best-attended team) there, and because of the XFL's po ...
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Wade Phillips
Harold Wade Phillips (born June 21, 1947) is a former American football coach. He has served as head coach of the Denver Broncos, Buffalo Bills, Dallas Cowboys, Houston Roughnecks and San Antonio Brahmas. He has also served as interim head coach for the New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons, and the Houston Texans. Additionally, Phillips has long been considered to be among the best defensive coordinators in the NFL. In his long career, he has served as defensive coordinator in eight separate stints with seven different franchises (twice with the Denver Broncos). Multiple players under Phillips' system have won Defensive Player of the Year: Reggie White, Bryce Paup, Bruce Smith, J. J. Watt and Aaron Donald. Others under Phillips have won Defensive Rookie of the Year: Mike Croel and Shawne Merriman. In Phillips' lone Super Bowl victory, a defensive player would be named Super Bowl MVP: Von Miller. Early career Phillips attended Port Neches–Groves High School in Po ...
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TCU Horned Frogs Football
The TCU Horned Frogs football team represents Texas Christian University (TCU) in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The Horned Frogs play their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth. TCU began playing football in 1896 and has been a member of the Big 12 Conference since 2012. The Horned Frogs claim national championships in 1935 TCU Horned Frogs football team, 1935 and 1938 TCU Horned Frogs football team, 1938, when they were led by Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Sammy Baugh and Heisman Trophy winner Davey O'Brien, respectively. TCU has had six other Heisman finalists. In addition to Baugh and O'Brien, TCU has had six other former players inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Following decades of futility during the late 20th century, TCU returned to national prominence under head coach Dennis Franchione (1998-2000). Franchione led the Horned Frogs to their ...
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Jack Pardee
John Perry Pardee (April 19, 1936 – April 1, 2013) was an American professional football player and head coach. He played as a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). As a coach, he is the only head coach to helm a team in college football, the NFL, the United States Football League (USFL), the World Football League (WFL), and the Canadian Football League (CFL). Pardee was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1986. Playing career As a teenager, Pardee moved to Christoval, Texas, where he excelled as a member of the six-man football team. He was an All-America fullback at Texas A&M University and a two-time All-Pro with the Los Angeles Rams (1963) and the Washington Redskins (1971). He was one of the few six-man players to ever make it to the NFL, and his knowledge of that wide-open game served him well as a coach. Pardee was one of the famed Junction Boys, the 1954 Texas A&M preseason camp held in Junction, Texas, by football coach ...
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Houston Oilers
The Houston Oilers were a professional American football team that played in Houston, Texas, from its founding in 1960 Houston Oilers season, 1960 to 1996 Houston Oilers season, 1996. The Houston Oilers began play as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL) and won two AFL championships before joining the NFL in the AFL–NFL merger of the late 1960s. The Houston Oilers competed in the AFL's AFC East, East division—along with the Buffalo Bills, the New York Jets and the Boston Patriots—until the merger, when they joined the newly formed AFC Central. The team played home games at Jeppesen Stadium and Rice Stadium (Rice University), Rice Stadium during its first eight seasons, and thereafter at the Astrodome. The Houston Oilers were the first champions of the American Football League, winning the 1960 American Football League Championship Game, 1960 and 1961 American Football League Championship Game, 1961 championships, but never won another. The Houston Oi ...
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2025 UFL Season
The 2025 UFL season is the current second season of the United Football League. The Birmingham Stallions were the defending champions after they defeated the San Antonio Brahmas in the 2024 UFL Championship Game to win their third consecutive spring football championship, adding to their back-to-back championships in the rebooted USFL. The Stallions were defeated in the 2025 USFL Championship Game by the Michigan Panthers, and the DC Defenders routed the Panthers 58–34 to win their first UFL Championship. Offseason The UFL exceeded internal expectations for the 2024 season, with Fox Sports executive Eric Shanks commenting that, though the league still lost money, it was "ahead of the expected pace" in terms of achieving self-sustenance, while the league long-term goal is to solicit local investors in an owner-operator arrangement similar to that used by Major League Soccer and the previous United Football League. League president Russ Brandon confirmed that the league's lo ...
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2025 San Antonio Brahmas Season
The 2025 San Antonio Brahmas season was the third season for the San Antonio Brahmas as a professional American football franchise and the second season in the United Football League (UFL). The Brahmas played their home games at the Alamodome and head coach Wade Phillips returned for his second year. Phillips missed much of the offseason due to declining health. After a 0–2 start to the season, Offensive Coordinator A. J. Smith resigned. Special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach Payton Pardee was promoted to fulfill the vacancy. In week three, Phillips suffered a medical emergency during the Brahmas' April 13 game against the Michigan Panthers, forcing Pardee to take over head coaching duties for the remainder of the game. Phillips then took a personal leave of absence for the remainder of the 2025 season on April 16, 2025, naming Pardee as his successor. Smith later remarked there was an internal power struggle in the Brahmas organization that led to his resignat ...
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United States Football League (2022–2023)
The United States Football League (USFL) was a professional American football minor league that played two seasons from 2022 to 2023. It is now one of the two-component conferences of the United Football League (UFL), along with the XFL. The USFL was founded as a standalone league in 2022. In its two seasons of operation it operated eight teams; all with the brands of teams from a previous incarnation of the United States Football League that operated from 1983 to 1985. A majority of its teams did not play in the metropolitan areas of the cities after which they were named, with the entire league playing in Birmingham, Alabama during the inaugural 2022 season and each of the league's four host cities, mostly mid-sized markets and all east of the Mississippi River, sharing two teams in 2023. The league was owned by National Spring Football League Enterprises Co, LLC, initially a joint venture between Fox Corporation's sports unit, Fox Sports in the United States and Brian Woo ...
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XFL (2020–2023)
The XFL was a Professional football (gridiron), professional American football Minor league football (gridiron), minor league consisting of eight teams located across the United States in mid-sized to major markets. It is now one of the two athletic conference, conferences of the United Football League (2024), United Football League (UFL), along with the United States Football League (2022–2023), United States Football League (USFL). The XFL league headquarters were in Arlington, Texas. The league was founded by WWE executive Vince McMahon in 2018, as a continuation successor to the XFL (2001), league of the same name he founded in 2001. McMahon founded the new XFL to create a league with fewer off-field controversies and faster, simpler play compared to the bigger National Football League (NFL), and one without the features inspired by professional wrestling or Sports entertainment, entertainment elements of its predecessor. The league and its eight teams were originally own ...
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Houston Cougars Football
The Houston Cougars football program is an NCAA Division I FBS football team that represents the University of Houston. The team is commonly referred to as "Houston" or "UH." The UH football program is a member of the Big 12 Conference. Since the 2014 season, the Cougars have played their home games on campus at TDECU Stadium, which was built on the site formerly occupied by Robertson Stadium, where they played home games from 1941 to 1950 and from 1994 to 2012. Over the history of the program, the Cougars have won 11 conference championships and have had several players elected to the College Football Hall of Fame, including a Heisman Trophy winner. History Early history (1946–1961) In 1941, Johnny Goyen, then sports editor for ''The Daily Cougar, The Cougar'', and Jack Valenti, president of the sophomore class, began a petition for an official intercollegiate football team at the university. The next year, the two called a student body meeting to organize another petition. ...
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East Texas A&M University
East Texas A&M University (ETAMU; formerly Texas A&M University–Commerce) is a public university in Commerce, Texas, United States. With an enrollment of over 12,000 students as of fall 2017, the university is the third-largest institution in the Texas A&M University System. Founded in 1889, the institution is also the fifth-oldest state university or college in the State of Texas. Located on the northeastern edge of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, approximately from downtown Dallas, the university attracts traditional resident students from the Metroplex and also from the smaller communities of Northeast Texas. In addition to the main campus in Hunt County, Texas, Hunt County, the university has satellite campuses in downtown Dallas and Mesquite, Texas, Mesquite; it also offers courses in Corsicana, Texas, Corsicana and Midlothian, Texas, Midlothian in partnership with Navarro College and in Frisco, Texas, Frisco and McKinney, Texas, McKinney with Collin College. History ...
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Houston Roughnecks (2024)
The Houston Roughnecks are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The Roughnecks compete in the United Football League (UFL) as a member of the USFL Conference. The team is owned-and-operated by Dwayne Johnson's Alpha Acquico and Fox Corporation. The team was a founding member of the USFL, as the Houston Gamblers in 2022, named after the 1980s USFL team of the same name. Though named after the city of Houston, the 2020s Gamblers never played there under that brand, instead playing its home games as the guest of other USFL teams in Birmingham, Alabama in 2022 and Memphis, Tennessee in 2023. When the USFL and XFL merged to form the UFL in 2024, the Gamblers took over the branding of the original Houston Roughnecks that had played the 2020 and 2023 seasons in the XFL and played in Houston at Rice Stadium and will play at Space City Financial Stadium (previously TDECU Stadium, the home of the 2020 and 2023 Roughnecks) for the 2025 season. History Hou ...
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