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Now, you don't have to stop watching Pro Football after the Superbowl. An exciting new Pro Football league has started up called the XFL. It has 8 teams and the schedule runs through the end of April.
XFL
There have been other Pro Football startups designed to pick up where the NFL leaves off. All have failed for various reasons, including one that was wrecked by you-know-who. Will this league finally solve all the problems and gain a foothold? One of the previous startups was called the USFL. Guess who bought one of the teams, and guess who was blamed for the demise of the entire league?
"Trump is widely blamed for the demise of the USFL
Soon after Trump bought the Generals after the USFL's inaugural season, which was played in the spring of 1983, he started pushing his fellow owners to move the league's games to the fall and go head-to-head with the NFL. "If God wanted football in the spring," Trump once said, "he wouldn't have created baseball." After the league's third season, the owners agreed to move to a fall schedule in 1986.
"I think it was a big mistake," said Dr. Ted Diethrich, one of the league's original owners. "When that decision was made, the course for this was charted, and it was going to be a wreck."
Several teams were having financial difficulties at the time, and the league lacked the fall TV contracts that supported the NFL. The USFL instead tried to take on the NFL in the courts by filing an antitrust lawsuit. The hope was that the USFL would either merge with the established league or win a sizable settlement. The merger never happened, and despite winning the lawsuit, the USFL was ultimately awarded only $3 for its troubles. The league soon folded, and Trump's push for the fall schedule and a lawsuit against the NFL is generally cited as the main reason."
Another Football League Besides The NFL Was Killed By POTUS And Another One Of His Failed Business Ideas
XFL
There have been other Pro Football startups designed to pick up where the NFL leaves off. All have failed for various reasons, including one that was wrecked by you-know-who. Will this league finally solve all the problems and gain a foothold? One of the previous startups was called the USFL. Guess who bought one of the teams, and guess who was blamed for the demise of the entire league?
"Trump is widely blamed for the demise of the USFL
Soon after Trump bought the Generals after the USFL's inaugural season, which was played in the spring of 1983, he started pushing his fellow owners to move the league's games to the fall and go head-to-head with the NFL. "If God wanted football in the spring," Trump once said, "he wouldn't have created baseball." After the league's third season, the owners agreed to move to a fall schedule in 1986.
"I think it was a big mistake," said Dr. Ted Diethrich, one of the league's original owners. "When that decision was made, the course for this was charted, and it was going to be a wreck."
Several teams were having financial difficulties at the time, and the league lacked the fall TV contracts that supported the NFL. The USFL instead tried to take on the NFL in the courts by filing an antitrust lawsuit. The hope was that the USFL would either merge with the established league or win a sizable settlement. The merger never happened, and despite winning the lawsuit, the USFL was ultimately awarded only $3 for its troubles. The league soon folded, and Trump's push for the fall schedule and a lawsuit against the NFL is generally cited as the main reason."
Another Football League Besides The NFL Was Killed By POTUS And Another One Of His Failed Business Ideas