The usual - someone else's money.johnnyangryfuzzball wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:08 pm It's interesting that Csonka (representing the Jacksonville Bulls as former GM and minority owner) is the only name publicly attached to this proposal and that none of the others are mentioned. (That said, Steve Ehrhart of Memphis made similar remarks a few months ago, so he's almost certainly involved.)
So who represents the other teams that were still around in 1986?
- Birmingham: probably no clear interest, since Marvin Warner went bankrupt and the city bailed them out (and we all know the city of Birmingham is all in on the new USFL).
- Tampa Bay: the owners who bought the team from John Bassett and Steve Arky went bankrupt, as did the now-deceased Burt Reynolds due to unrelated issues in 1996. Would you believe Loni Anderson might be the Bandits' rightful heir?
- New Jersey: Donald Trump sees the USFL as small potatoes and has bigger issues to face.
- Baltimore: Stephen Ross is in the NFL right now. It's doubtful he has much of an opinion.
- Orlando: Donald Dizney (no relation to the Disneys) and Charles Givens. Givens died in 1998 under a maelstrom of fraud charges. Dizney is still active in business. He might be part of it.
- Arizona: Bill Tatham is still in the business. He might be part of it.
Basically all the owners likely to be part of it are of teams whose brands aren't being used, and all the team brands that are being used either folded before the league went out of business, don't care, or simply have no next of kin.
I'm just curious as to what they're angling to get? To get it shut down? To get an ownership stake?
Notice they created an LLC to sue so as to protect themselves from counter suit. People are pathetic.
