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Edge of Sports

The Wild and Crazy USFL

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week we speak to NY Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman about his book Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL. We go into the league’s history, why it went under, and lessons to be learned from its eventual demise. We also have ‘Choice Words’ about proposed cuts to the Special Olympics and we have the same person getting the ‘Just Stand Up’ and Just ‘Sit Your Ass Down’ awards! A brand new ‘Kaepernick Watch’ and more! Jeff Pearlman Twitter: @jeffpearlman Football For A Buck Zirin, The Trump Administration’s Ableist Cuts to the Special Olympics https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-devos-ableism-special-olympics/ — http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE) — Music: Eye Examination - Del the Funky Homosapien | Nas Is Like - Nas | Electric Relaxation - A Tribe Called Quest | Why - Jadakiss Feat. Anthony Hamilton | The Ghetto - Too Short | This Way - Dilated Peoples Feat. Kanye West | The Light ‘08 - Common Feat. Marsha Ambrosius | Super Nova - Dug Infinite & No I.D. | Long Life - Dela Feat. Talib Kweli | The Wire Theme Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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everything secure. Let's talk about something that might be keeping you up at night. Cyber security.

1:01.5

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1:47.8

just about keeping the lights on. It's about keeping everything secure. I was working on this book

1:52.8

during the election. And there's one thing I just kept coming back to you and I kept saying to my

1:57.5

wife, this is just insane. You know, heading into the 1985 season, which would end up being the last season, Donald Trump and the New Jersey General signed Doug Flutty, the Heism trophy winner out of Boston College. There are a couple of things that. Number one, they didn't need him, but Trump liked the hype and the headlines of getting flutty. He signed him to the biggest contract in pro football history at the time. I think it was

2:17.9

six years, $8.3 million, which at the time was a huge amount of money. And he actually wrote a letter

2:22.7

to the commissioner of the league, Harry Housher, that I got a copy of. And it said, my signing

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