Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Synopsis submission guide. Now, almost a quarter of a century later, Academy Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning director Mike Tollin, himself once a chronicler of the league, will showcase the remarkable influence of those three years on football history and attempt to answer the question, "Who Killed the USFL?".

Filmmaker Mike Tollin created a short film for ESPN to help celebrate their 30th anniversary and to try and give us an answer. That one dollar was eventually tripled due to antitrust law, making the winnings $3.76, including interest during the trial.

Soon, the USFL was reduced to waging a desperate anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL.

The USFL had a very promising start in 1983, including the signing of Heisman trophy winning running back, Herschel Walker, to the New York Generals. This included a certain high profile and impatient real estate baron whose vision was at odds with the league's founders. The new league did the unthinkable by playing in the spring and plucked three straight Heisman Trophy winners away from the NFL. Be the first to contribute! (2009) *** (out of 4) Fun filled and sometimes heated documentary about who killed the USFL, the springtime football league, which seemed to be doing decent until Donald Trump bought a team and soon, after three seasons, the league was no more. In 1983 the upstart United States Football League (USFL) had the audacity to challenge the almighty NFL. The 12-team USFL played before crowds that averaged 25,000, and started off with respectable TV ratings. USFL stands for United States Football League, and it was created with the basic intentions of feeding America’s love for pro football, which went beyond that of the NFL. The USFL had sued the NFL saying that it had a monopoly on the television stations ABC, CBS and NBC, which did not allow them to air any USFL games during the fall. The new league did the unthinkable by playing in the spring and plucked three straight Heisman Trophy winners away from the NFL. Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?

He interviewed former USFL players and executives like Steve Young, Jim Kelly, and Donald Trump, and asked them how the USFL changed the face of professional football, and how it came to an end. The new startup league was created by David Dixon, an antique dealer from New Orleans, who had studied the two previous failed football leagues, the American Football League AFL and the World Football League WFL, and came up with plans to provide long-term success with the USFL. | If you want a picture to show with your comment, go get a gravatar. In 1983 the upstart United States Football League (USFL) had the audacity to challenge the almighty NFL.

That’s where the documentary Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?

30 for 30: Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? The first two weeks of 30 For 30 offered well-known fiction filmmakers trying their hand at documentaries, but tonight’s installment comes to us from an honest-to-goodness sports-doc veteran, Mike Tollin, whose directorial credits include the fine film Hank Aaron: Chasing The Dream and the once-popular weekly series This Is The USFL. really captures what went on behind the scenes of the USFL, the NFL’s biggest rival in the field of professional football. Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. The piece centered on filmmaker Tollin and his connection with the league.

The documentary name comes from Trump’s response when asked to give an interview many years later calling the USFL “small potatoes”.


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That’s where the documentary Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?

Soon, the USFL was reduced to waging a desperate anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL.

In 1983 the upstart United States Football League (USFL) had the audacity to challenge the almighty NFL. However, all good things must come to an end, right? It’s a fascinating look into Trump’s greed and ego that leads to the downfall and unemployment of so many that were dedicated to a new football league.
The piece centered on filmmaker Tollin and his connection with the league.

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