The Denver Rush are a

women's American football Women's gridiron football, more commonly known as women's tackle football, women's American football, women's Canadian football, or simply women's football, is a form of gridiron football (American or Canadian) played by women. Most leagues play ...

team in the Extreme Football League ( X League) based in

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, a suburb of

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History

The Extreme Football League ( X League) was announced in December 2019, as a successor to the

Legends Football League The Extreme Football League (X League) is an American women's semi-professional tackle football league. The league was originally founded in 2009 as the Lingerie Football League (LFL), and later rebranded as the Legends Football League in 2013. ...

(LFL). The announcement included the Rush, a successor to the LFL's Denver Dream. The X League's 2020 season was postponed, and the league also did not operate during 2021, amid the

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. The Rush first competed during the

2022 X League season The 2022 X League season was the inaugural season of the Extreme Football League (commonly known as the XLeague) in the United States. It began in June and concluded in September with the Chicago Blitz winning the inaugural "X Cup" championship gam ...

; they lost both of their regular season games, to the

Seattle Thunder The Seattle Thunder are a women's American football team in the Extreme Football League ( X League) based in Kent, Washington, in the Seattle metropolitan area. History The Extreme Football League ( X League) was announced in December 2019, as ...

and

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, and did not advance to the postseason.

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