Meet the Colorado Stampede: The Springs’ Newest Professional Sports Team

Colorado Springs will host a new professional sports team in 2027. The Colorado Stampede, an American football team competing in the United Football League (UFL), will be playing at Weidner Field, home of the Colorado Springs Switchbacks soccer team. The Stampede, playing in “Bison Brown, Canyon Red, Gold Rush, and Summit White,” will be Colorado Springs’ first-ever professional football team. The team has already drummed up local interest, with thousands of season tickets already sold. If the Stampede is a success, it will be a promising sign that the UFL’s expansion into Colorado Springs is another major step in its current reorganization. The UFL has only been around for two years, but has already faced a number of team closures and relocations. Spring football is a notoriously challenging sport to make profitable, and the league itself was born out of a merger between two doomed spring leagues in the early 2020s — the XFL and the United States Football League (USFL).

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