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UNITED FOOTBALL LEAGUE JOINS TRIBUNE COMPANY TO INVITE CONNECTICUT FOOTBALL FANS TO SUGGEST THEIR FAVORITE NAME FOR THE UFL HARTFORD TEAM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – HARTFORD, CT – Tuesday, February 23 - The United Football League, in association with Tribune companies FOX 61 News, the Hartford Courant and CTNow.com, is inviting football fans in the state of Connecticut to suggest their favorite name for the new professional football team that will play in Hartford when the 2010 UFL season kicks off.

Suggestions for team names began pouring into the mailboxes and websites of the Hartford Courant and UFL-Football.com following the announcement on February 16 that the Hartford UFL team will play five home games at Rentschler Field in East Hartford this fall.

“We want to empower the fans of this new Hartford United Football League team to give us their thoughts on the name that they feel has a strong local connection and that they will be proud to chant from the stands at Rentschler Field,” said UFL Commissioner Michael Huyghue.

FOX 61 kicked off the naming process on Tuesday, February 23 when ‘Your Town, Your Team, Your Name – You Make The Call’ promotional spots ran, inviting football fans to visit CTNow.com to start voting for their preferred choice of team names from a shortlist of four options or to suggest a different name:

·       Hartford Knights

·       Hartford Guardians

·       Hartford Travelers

·       Connecticut Yankees

Fans of the new team can cast their vote by visiting the www.CTNow.com website between now and Thursday, March 4.

The Hartford United Football League team name will be announced on Fox 61Comcast Sports Desk on Sunday, March 7 at 10.45pm.

Three randomly drawn entrants who suggest the name that is chosen will become the inaugural “UFL Foundation Fans” and will receive four suite passes, four on-field pre-game passes, a meet and greet with the head coach during the on-field experience and recognition of their participation in the promotion during a Hartford team home game.

The Harford team will be led by Head Coach and General Manager Chris Palmer, who played football at Immaculate High School in Danbury and was a quarterback at Southern Connecticut State University before a successful spell coaching at the University of New Haven from 1986-87, posting consecutive 8-2 records.  Most recently, Palmer tutored Eli Manning with the New York Giants from 2007 to 2009 and ultimately won a Super Bowl XLII ring when the Giants defeated the New England Patriots 17-14 in Glendale, Arizona.

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