Some of the other owners in different markets said we need to stay in the spring, that they had too many guns in the NFL. Literally that day [Taylor] showed up at Trump Tower. If they'd say, "Let's stay in the spring," he'd say, "That really worked out good for you guys in L.A., didn't it? Jim McVay (director of marketing for the Tampa Bay Outlaws): Trump brought a lot of glamour and attention. We were told it was the Gamblers'. They were being asked to do these signings in their little uniforms in these sleazy bars all over the place, and they weren't protected and they were feeling really unsafe and uncared for and just sort of thrown into these environments. It was really surreal. So instead of playing football in the spring of 1986, the USFL landed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. John Bassett, owner of the USFL team the Tampa Bay Bandits warned Trump that an attempt to move the games to the fall would have apocalyptic repercussions. Which didn't work out too well, either. Taylor: I wasn't even on my way back to Jersey when word started leaking out. Hey, the league was outta money! He was good at finding and exploiting an opponent's weakness.". "But you might be able to out-talk him"). In 1983 the upstart United States Football League (USFL) had the audacity to challenge the almighty NFL. He's the same guy who looks down on anyone in his way, whose audacity and narcissism knows no bounds. But it also concluded that the league's dire straights were largely a result of its own doing, not the NFL's, and so awarded the USFL damages totaling…$1. Yet its Trumpian storyline hews eerily close to today's. Film Summary. Trump, from LT: Over the Edge: I ended up selling him back to the Giants. The absence of the United States was a massive and possibly fatal blow to the League of Nations.1 The US was the only major power to come out of … It portrayed him, Trump wrote in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal, as a "vicious, greedy, Machiavellian billionaire, intent only on serving my selfish ends at everyone else's expense." Things like meals and travel. If you need to flag this entry as abusive. The USFL (United States Football League) existed from 1982 to 1985 for three full seasons. He crashed our party pretty hard. (Ehrhart also handled a $6 million check for the league's attorneys' fees and allows, "I did distribute that one."). But it was back in the early 1980’s when an eager Trump bought the franchise to the New Jersey Generals, a team within the United States Football League, the USFL. He felt that buying a football team, albeit the New Jersey Generals of the USFL, not the NFL, would get him into the greater media consciousness. Damages in anti-trust cases are tripled, so the award grew to…$3. Although league attendance remained solid, rising player costs forced many teams deeper into the red. "You can cut and paste the USFL and the GOP and it's the same damn story," says Charley Steiner, radio voice of the Generals and now play-by-play man for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The idea was for the League of Nations to prevent wars through disarmament, collective security, and negotiation. What caused tension was he began pushing the tape, saying we needed to be playing in the fall, we have to go for it. Many argue it was the sole reason for the war; however it only played a small role in the … Six reasons why upstart professional football leagues never survive There are plenty of reasons why alternate football leagues keep dying in America. He's just going to go full bore.". He was very aware of making it top-shelf. McVay: I think Trump kept the league together. He had the money to pay the players to play. 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