When the United Football League announced its new team in Omaha, fans were cautiously excited. In front of a sellout crowd Friday night at Rosenblatt Stadium, the Nighthawks delivered with a last-second 27-26 win. Now the question is, what does the future hold?

As quarterback Jeff Garcia watched the game clock erase the final seconds, his game-winning touchdown had the hometown crowd going wild. For the team’s fans, it was the perfectly scripted memory.

"I thought it was awesome,” said Matt Jensen. “Frickin' Jeff Garcia started off slow, but he found it in the end. Just go Nighthawks, baby! Whoo!"

The real winner appears to be Omaha. “Great turnout, great crowd, nice win of course,” said Don Igo, Nighthawks’ director of operations, who wasn’t surprised by the buzz surrounding the team and hints about more surprises to come.

“We go down to TD Ameritrade (Stadium) next year and we'll have more seats, expandable to 30,000 and you never know where it's going to go from there."

At a Kiwanis meeting a few weeks ago, Igo made some news that seems more relevant after Friday's big win. Attendees tell Channel 6 News he told them that they have interest from NBC to carry UFL games once the league expands to 12 teams, but the biggest announcement concerned the team’s dream for a new stadium.

Attendees at the meeting say Igo told them that a 50,000-seat stadium would be built on the old Chili Greens Golf Course near 68th and Spring streets and would include some form of partnership with UNO if UNO becomes a Division I school.

“We'd like to have a permanent home other than a baseball stadium of course, but everything is a dream at this point and if something could happen where a new stadium would be built then absolutely we'd be interested in that,” says Igo, who cautions the discussions over a new stadium are premature. He says at this point a new stadium on the land is only a dream. “I can't really talk about that right now. All I can say is that something is out there, that's all I can say.”

Igo told attendees the NFL and its owners refuse to expand and that's one of the reasons the UFL was formed. The league says it’s being careful, not wanting to expand too quickly and suffer the same fate as other leagues that have tried too much too soon.

The NFL is facing the possibility of a player lockout next year, meaning no other professional football. The UFL believes that could be its best opportunity to establish itself as a viable alternative.

We're also told the UFL is about to announce another expansion team in the next few weeks.