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Doctor_J

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9. He was also a prime reason the USFL failed.

Fri Sep 4, 2015, 02:18 PM

Sep 2015

He never wanted to own a football team - he just wanted to sue the NFL on anti-trust grounds and collect a paycheck. And the reason the NFL won the suit is just that - their (counter) claim was that Trump and a couple others were not in the business to own football teams, but merely to gouge the NFL. He talked a majority into moving the USFL season from the spring to the fall, to bring the issue to a head, and they went to court and lost, and that was that. The USFL owners who actually DID want to be a part of pro football were wiped out by Trump's cabal.

The USFL was probably doomed anyway, but even 30 years ago Trump was a con man and huckster.

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