USFL vs NFL - Birth of a Spring Football League | 1
Business Wars
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4.6 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
For years, David Dixon has been trying to convince the National Football League to launch an expansion team in New Orleans, but he always comes up empty-handed. Finally, after one too many letdowns, Dixon realizes his only hope for a hometown team is to start his own football league. Unlike the NFL, his league — the United States Football League — will play its games in the spring, and boast rosters full of hometown heroes from regional colleges.
Fans and investors seem to love the idea. But just then, the NFL announces the location of its next franchise: New Orleans. As Dixon’s long-time dream comes true, he abandons plans to launch the USFL — for now.
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| 0:14.0 | It is April 15, 1984, and a man enters the swanky Pierre Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. |
| 0:21.0 | The lobby is an ode to Big Apple wealth in status, high ceilings, crystal chandelier, |
| 0:27.0 | a black and white checkered marble floor. |
| 0:30.3 | The visitor fits right in. |
| 0:32.0 | He's Natalie dressed in a pinstripe grey suit and red and blue tie. |
| 0:36.5 | His polished black loafers reflect light from above. |
| 0:40.2 | He walks past the front desk toward the elevator banks. |
| 0:43.4 | A few people stare and whisper. |
| 0:46.4 | Is that? |
| 0:48.6 | Pete Rosel, the 58-year-old commissioner of the National Football League, is hardly |
| 0:54.8 | just another executive. |
| 0:56.6 | So he is the king, czar, and headmaster of the most powerful entity in professional sports. |
| 1:05.3 | Rosel does not want to be seen here. |
| 1:08.5 | Certainly doesn't want this visit to appear in the Times or Daily News. |
| 1:12.3 | That would be disastrous. |
| 1:15.0 | So he keeps his head down, walks into the elevator and presses pee for penthouse. |
| 1:22.5 | The 41-flight trip feels like an eternity. |
| 1:27.1 | What is he even doing here? |
| 1:29.6 | Aren't there better things to do? |
| 1:31.1 | Like jabbing his eyeballs out with pencils, like watching an endless loop of Joni Love's |
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