Just finished watching a documentary on the demise of the USFL (United States Football League), part of HBOs 30 on 30 sports documentary series and Donald Trumps involvement in it.

Long story short.....I just see scary parallels between his run for the Republican nomination and his self serving entrance as a owner into the USFL, his shameless promotion, fool hardy decisions he championed for his own benefit, then abandoning the whole thing without a care in the world.

..and then completely un apologetic 30 years later.

you can ad that to his list of failures for sure, but it just brings home the fact that everything he does is for Donald Trump and his company.

I guess the Republican party is his new USFL

From summery...

QuoteBut 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.

Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL
http://espn.go.com/30for30/film?page=small-potatoes-who-killed-the-usfl

Sauce, to be fair they were attempting to directly compete with the NFL.

Most knew that was a doomed venture from the get go, or well should have.

Given how much of a tradition NFL football is in our nation. I mean really, it's sort of like trying to compete against apple pie. And so sort of unfair to hold it against those involved because it did. LOL

So on the one hand I can't blame Trump if he ate his losses and got the hell out. If it were my money tied up in that, I would have done the same thing. Got out soon as I could.

But on the flip side of that, the fact he got in to start with, isn't exactly a shining testament to good decision making either.

Because as I said, most folks knew that was doomed from the get go. Sort of like the whole Trump University thing.

On the one hand, yeah Trump ripped those people off.

But on the other flip side of the coin, no one twisted their arms to pay that kind of money to attend a school, which is not even truly an accredited school in the first place.

I can't really blame Trump, because they were stupid enough to do that in the first place.

Given the first thing you do as a potential student, when considering which real college or university to attend.

Is make sure that your school actually has accreditation so your degree will actually mean something when you get out. LOL

For me there's lots about Mr. Trump like that.

And I fear this election for POTUS is going to wind up being that way too.

Its going to be, yep Trump's wrong/ in the wrong/doing wrong.

But then again, so are the people who voted to put him there to start despite being told he would do it in the first place, also.

What he did was lead the effort to directly compete with the NFL in the fall, knowing that they could not, then filing the anti trust law suite in hopes that the ruling would be so steep that the NFL would absorb "some" of the franchises, namely his New Jersey Generals and a few others....hence the self serving part.

After the ruling came in for I think $3.76, that's when Trump cut his losses......AFTER pushing the move to the fall which is what killed the league..they didn't even get a chance to play in the fall.

Not saying the league would not of imploded eventually, but the decision to move to the fall and sue the  NFL was instigated by Trump.

He was a usurper then as he is now............

Quote from: daidalos on May 15, 2016, 06:13:34 PM
Sauce, to be fair they were attempting to directly compete with the NFL.

Most knew that was a doomed venture from the get go, or well should have.

Given how much of a tradition NFL football is in our nation. I mean really, it's sort of like trying to compete against apple pie. ...

The USFL tried to compete head-to-head with the NFL,
during the same season.

Vince McMahon's XFL (Extreme Football League)
had it's season begin after the Super Bowl.
So he didn't compete head-to-head.
And the games were so much fun to watch!
They had cameramen on the field during play!

The WLAF (World League of American Football)
also played in the spring.

There is one city whose team in all three leagues
made a profit every year:  Birmingham AL.

I wonder if the NFL noticed that.

Quote from: je_freedom on May 15, 2016, 06:31:47 PM
The USFL tried to compete head-to-head with the NFL,
during the same season.

Vince McMahon's XFL (Extreme Football League)
had it's season begin after the Super Bowl.
So he didn't compete head-to-head.
And the games were so much fun to watch!
They had cameramen on the field during play!

The WLAF (World League of American Football)
also played in the spring.

There is one city whose team in all three leagues
made a profit every year:  Birmingham AL.

I wonder if the NFL noticed that.

The US FL was  spring league..they ever actually played a fall schedule.  They sued the NFL on the premise that they had a mnopoly in the fall, having contract with all 3 television networks. 

The theory goes that Trump never had any intention that the league would survive, he was hoping to be icorpersted into the NFL.   The US FL was never good enough for him and his perceived stature

Quote from: Sauce on May 15, 2016, 08:48:12 PM
The US FL was  spring league..they ever actually played a fall schedule.  They sued the NFL on the premise that they had a mnopoly in the fall, having contract with all 3 television networks. 

The theory goes that Trump never had any intention that the league would survive, he was hoping to be icorpersted into the NFL.   The US FL was never good enough for him and his perceived stature

I could have gotten mixed up.
There was also World Football League.
I think that was in the early 1970s.
Birmingham made a profit in that league, too.

Who will kill the Republican Party ?

I'm not fussy.

Quote from: SalemCat on May 24, 2016, 02:04:19 PM
Who will kill the Republican Party ?

I'm not fussy.

Open your eyes that's what the OP ask! 

QuoteSmall Potatoes: Who will Kill the Republican Party

I know your not fussy.