keggerz Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Reggie White came to the NFL via the USFL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Sean Landeta and Doug Flutie are the only players still in the NFL that played in the USFL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puddy Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 yep... The Michigan Panthers - the only pro football championship the resident Lions fans will ever see in their lifetime  1268762[/snapback]     God bless Bobby Hebert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh 0ne Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 God bless Bobby Hebert. 1268894[/snapback]     Did he go there before or after the Saints? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Did he go there before or after the Saints? 1268896[/snapback]    Before the Saints.  NFL stats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vatican Hitsquad Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Remember the Marcus DuPree fiasco? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bier Meister Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 went to a couple of oakland invader games..... Â Â bobby herbert to anthony carter baby! Â saw 1 game vs kelly and one vs young... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbmcdonald Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Nice site:  http://www.oursportscentral.com/usfl/index.php  And despite all the naysayers, they played some pretty good football there too; lots of USFL players went on to have decent careers in the NFL. Darn shame Donald Trump utterly f*cked up their business plan and ruined what could have been a wondrous thing for sports fanatics - quality year-round football.  1268381[/snapback]     I had season tickets to the Houston Gamblers, it was an F***ing blast. Jim Kelly and Kiki Deyala (I went to school with Kiki). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skilly Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 My Dad took me to the very first USFL Championship game played in Denver CO. 1983. It was the Philly Stars vs the Michigan Panthers, qb'd by Bobby Hebert. As I recall, it was a really fun game to watch. Â I liked the USFL, but I was a nut for football even back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted January 16, 2006 Author Share Posted January 16, 2006 The Breakers, who were in 3 different cities for its 3 years - Boston, New Orleans and Portland. 1268761[/snapback]    At least they're all coastal cities; "Kansas City Breakers" would have been an interesting image. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted January 16, 2006 Author Share Posted January 16, 2006 ESPN Classic usually runs old USFL games in the off-season. I caught a Jim Kelly/ Steve Young game a while back.  I think the announcers were Mike Patrick and Paul MacGuire  1268720[/snapback]    I saw one with Rick Neuheisel playing QB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinersIn2006! Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 (edited) Interesting stuff!! Â I'm in my late 20's, so I was at ages 5 through 7 when the league was in existence, little before my football watching time. Knew of it, but dont really remember it. I knew that players like Kelly, Young, White, Flutie, and others went there, but didnt know some of the other stuff noted in this post. Â Thanks for the history lesson! Edited January 17, 2006 by NinersIn2006! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I remember the Pittsburgh Maulers. I remember being pissed when the named them Maulers as it was a reference to Debartalo the owner who was into building shopping malls. I don't remember us having any good players other than Rozier. A lot of the players were signed from Pitt after they graduated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nogohawk Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 The Philadelphia Stars were in all 3 title games. Â Sam Mills at LB, Kelvin Bryant at RB, Jim Mora coaching. Â 1268395[/snapback] Â Â Â Â I remember the Philadelphia Stars and the whole Herschel Walker drafted away from the NFL. We didn't have a fantasy football league back then, but we were so desperate that we formed a fantasy XFL league (which I won on the arm of Tommy Maddox!). Â Good stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vatican Hitsquad Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Anybody else here willing to admit ALMOST starting a XFL Fantasy Football league? Â Â Â Â Â I am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gdawg Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Anybody else here willing to admit ALMOST starting a XFL Fantasy Football league?I am. Â 1270873[/snapback] Â Â Â Â Guilty as charged Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zooty Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Anybody else here willing to admit ALMOST starting a XFL Fantasy Football league?I am.  1270873[/snapback]    Me too  and I looked on-line for them too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Anybody else here willing to admit ALMOST starting a XFL Fantasy Football league?I am. Â 1270873[/snapback] Â Â Â Â I particpated in one. I can't remember the website that hosted it, but there definitely was one. It may have been Sandbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTen Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Hell yes I remember the USFL. We had the Michigan Panthers. When they left, so did the hope and dreams of Detroit football greatness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 But they did move to Baltimore, I think right before the league folded. Man was that a long time ago. 1268397[/snapback]     Yeah, they moved after the second year and played the entire third year in Maryland. Memorial Stadium in Baltimore was undergoing some renovations so they actually played their games at the University of Maryland in Byrd Stadium - which is about 45-60 minutes from Baltimore.  They officially took over the Baltimore Colts training facility back up in Baltimore County, but rarely practiced there as they still had a makeshift practice loaction in Philly.  In fact, Baltimore is the only city to have football teams win their respective championships in the NFL, USFL and Canadian Football League (CFL)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolly Rodgers Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I remember the days when the Tampa Bay Bandits were better than the Tampa Bay Bucs..............oh those were the days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gdawg Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Yeah, they moved after the second year and played the entire third year in Maryland. Memorial Stadium in Baltimore was undergoing some renovations so they actually played their games at the University of Maryland in Byrd Stadium - which is about 45-60 minutes from Baltimore. They officially took over the Baltimore Colts training facility back up in Baltimore County, but rarely practiced there as they still had a makeshift practice loaction in Philly.  In fact, Baltimore is the only city to have football teams win their respective championships in the NFL, USFL and Canadian Football League (CFL)! 1272011[/snapback]  I hear ya, I live in Baltimore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengal Mania Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 About the only thing I remember about the USFL was the amount of top flight players that signed with them instead of the NFL. The biggest thing I remember:  Steve Young "The Forty Million Dollar Man". 1268768[/snapback]  Lost in the annals of history is the little-known fact that Steve Young was the selection by the Bengals that year, and had supposedly (per local legend) agreed to contract terms, when he "jumped" to the USFL at the last minute. Bengals ended up taking Esiason (either that year or the next, I didn't look up the history before posting)  It very well may have been quite a different history here if we'd had Young. Esiason was great for the offense we ran, but you never know...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beaumont Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 quality year-round football. 1268381[/snapback] Â Â I still enjoy the NFLE quite a bit ... Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I still enjoy the NFLE quite a bit ... 1272092[/snapback] Or Arena Football? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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