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The History of the USFL
Published: July 16, 2009
In the end, this is a story about a league that had a plan, failed to follow that plan, and let arrogance, new brash millionaire owners, weak central leadership, and the NFL itself beat it into submission.
The USFL was the dream of a New Orleans antiques dealer David Dixon. Dixon had been instrumental of bringing the Saints into the NFL in 1965, but saw football as not only a fall sport but a sport fro spring and summer as well.
Dixon spent the next 15 years studying the latest two challenges to the NFL dominance; the AFL and the World Football League. In 1980, he hired a hired a marketing agency to do a study on the feasibility of a spring and summer professional football league.
The results found that such a league was viable and Dixon moved to the next step of building a new leagu...
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