No use competing with the NFL

By John McMullen  |   Monday, March 16, 2009  |  Comments( 4 )

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Winston Churchill was quite the orator. A former British Prime Minister, Churchill was chiefly known for his stewardship of the United Kingdom during World War II. His most famous quote? "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." The people running the fledgling United Football League evidently aren't historians. If they...
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Os Davis		 02:38 PM
03/16/2009
re: "The league eventually folded in 1988 after an anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL failed."

Hey, the USFL did not fail in the antitrust lawsuit! They won! And a more triumphantly earned $3 there never was.

Cheers,
Os.
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Lou DiPietro		 03:21 PM
03/17/2009
If you notice one thing though, John, it's this: Of all the "pretenders" (not counting the Arena League, which is an entirely different game altogether), the only one that had more than a modicum of success is the AFL.

The difference between the AFL and all the rest: They played in the fall/winter, just like the NFL. This is the model the UFL is going for.

Perhaps maybe they'll find that it's not so much that America loves the NFL...they just don't love football in spring and summer, when baseball is going on and the NBA/NHL are in their stretch runs?
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