The new version is not affiliated with the original except for branding and mascot rights. The Tampa Bay Bandits led the original USFL in attendance and the team is back with the new league.

The Tampa Bay Bandits announced Tuesday they’ll be taking ... now will represent the Memphis Showboats, a franchise in the original USFL (in existence from 1983-1985) that is re-joining the ...

Actor Burt Reynolds served as a minority owner of the Tampa Bay Bandits, members of the original United States Football League (1983-85). For three scintillating years at the outset of the MTV era ...

TAMPA (WFLA) – The Tampa Bay Bandits, one of eight franchises ... its first season in one location. During the original USFL’s run, the Bandits franchise was one of the league’s most popular ...

As the UFL sputters through a second season that hasn't matched the first year of the XFL-USFL merger, there's reason to ...

After folding in 1986, it is being relaunched this year as a spring league, although it is not affiliated with the original incarnation ... recommends: The Tampa Bay Bandits cover as four-point ...

A former NFL head coach will lead a USFL franchise this spring. Todd Haley, whose time in the NFL included three seasons as the Kansas City Chiefs' head coach, was named the coach of the Tampa Bay ...

Former Florida State and Auburn quarterback John Franklin III has been selected by the Tampa Bay Bandits as a wide receiver ... Prior to his original commitment to Florida State, Franklin was ...