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People don’t recall but when the USFL popped up in the 80’s it was actually pretty successful as a “Spring Time” football league. Playing in Spring they didn’t
by will_brown 8y ago
People don’t recall but when the USFL popped up in the 80’s it was actually pretty successful as a “Spring Time” football league. Playing in Spring they didn’t compete with NFL or College Football and provided a product people wanted to fill the gap between seasons.
It was good old Donald Trump who lead the effort to change the season and compete directly with NFL by changing the season to Fall. Of course the USFL went bankrupt and Trump sued including a claim anti-trust/monopoly. The Court famously agreed NFL was in fact a monopoly but awarded Trump damages in the amount of $1.