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As a rival league, the USFL was quite unremarkable. It lasted only 3 years, had numerous franchise and ownership changes, and lost tens of millions of dollars. Perhaps more importantly, it failed to gain the merger with the NFL that so many of the upstart league’s owners desperately sought.
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Byrne J (1987) The $1 league: the rise and fall of the USFL. Prentice Hall Press, New York
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Longley, N. (2013). The USFL as a Case Study. In: An Absence of Competition. Sports Economics, Management and Policy, vol 5. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9485-0_3
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