Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?
For three glorious years, football was 365
2009-10-20 | 53 minutes
Plot Summary
In 1983 the upstart United States Football League (USFL) had the audacity to challenge the almighty NFL. The new league did the unthinkable by playing in the spring and plucked three straight Heisman Trophy winners away from the NFL. The 12-team USFL played before crowds that averaged 25,000, and started off with respectable TV ratings. But with success came expansion and new owners, including a certain high profile and impatient real estate baron whose vision was at odds with the league’s founders. Soon, the USFL was reduced to waging a desperate anti-trust lawsuit against the NFL, which yielded an ironic verdict that effectively forced the league out of business. 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?”
Cast
Recommendations
-
Bruce Lee: The Legend
-
Tank Girl
-
David Blaine: Beyond Magic
-
The Band That Wouldn't Die
-
The Legend of Jimmy the Greek
-
Avengers: Age of Ultron
-
Interstellar
-
Joker
-
Tenet
-
Barbie
-
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
-
Confession of Murder
-
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
-
The Fly
-
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
-
What We Do in the Shadows
-
Luca
-
Charade
-
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
-
Me Before You
Similar Movies
-
Germany: A Summer's Fairytale
-
Riding Giants
-
Unrivaled: Red Wings v Avalanche
-
Krasnodar: Game After Game
-
The Endless Summer
-
Life in 24 Hours
-
Clough: The Brian Clough Story
-
Believe That
-
O.J.: Made in America
-
O Fabuloso Fittipaldi
-
1
-
Jordan Henderson is Never Done
-
Berhault
-
White Rock
-
All For Nothing: Avacakdoes
-
Den s Petrem Čechem
-
Autana
-
Die besten Frauen der Welt
-
Making Tracks
-
Der Fussballtempel - Eine Arena Für München