USFL's Mike Pereira breaks down innovative rules ahead of first game

USFL officiating head Mike Pereira explains innovating ways excitement is being added to the game on 'Fox & Friends.'

The United States Football League (USFL) will kick off on Saturday, with the first game of the new season played between the New Jersey Generals and Birmingham Stallions.

The USFL will have some rules that will differentiate it from the NFL.

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USFL's head of officiating Mike Pereira breaks down the new rules in the league. (Fox News Channel)

Mike Pereira, the head of officiating for the USFL, broke down some of the exciting new changes in the league in an interview on "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday.

One of the first rules that were changed was the scoring. Teams that score a touchdown will have three options for extra points. A team could choose to go for one, two or three points after the score. For one point, the team would kick a 15-yard field goal. For two points, a team would have to cross the goal line from the 2-yard line. For three points, a team can try to score from the 10-yard line.

"Here’s the thing, we wanted to keep the game close in the fourth quarter. So we think of a one score game as like an eight-point game – a touchdown and an extra points," Pereira told "Fox & Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade. "Well now, it’s a nine-point game. It kind of gives that excitement to the fourth quarter, even thinking OK 18 points down I’m still down by only two scores. That’s an innovation I think is going to be really cool."

Pereira said the kickoff rules in the USFL were taken from The Spring League in hopes of creating more offense during the games.

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