USFL is Back in Spring ‘22
Michigan Panthers baby! Anybody remember?
Please tell me they are one of the eight teams coming back
Carolina Panthers would probably be able to block the name.
I really liked the Michigan Panthers and they were pretty good for awhile.
I remember them & I also remember Anthony Carter on that USFL Championship team. AC going there probably made me more interested in the Panthers than I would have been naturally because I was such a huge fan of his at Michigan
Booby Hebert to Anthony Carter . I think i went to see one game when i was younger .
Hebert was the man!
I had season tickets.... $ 45 for 9 games, sat in the corner of the club level in the Silverdome. They were the dominant team in the league. They were a class organization, a dynasty had the league not folded.
Went to the playoff game at the Silverdome with my brother and dad against Oakland. After the game we rushed the field and cut a swatch of the Panthers logo from the endzone. (I know, vandalism). Anyway, that swatch stayed with my brother and he has it in his basement in Davison.
Thats cool ! I was stuck up in the Club level, and didn't rush field... though after Hebert was drafted and before his first game, I wrote him asking for an autograph. He sends me back a handwritten long paragraph half page written on spiral notebook paper, thanking me and blessing me...was pretty cool. Loved that team.
The Michigan Panthers have been the ONLY professional football this area has ever had!!!
That's a pretty sweet helmet. The shape is a little off but the design is sick.
Yep, got an autograph from John ‘sack man’ corker at a charity golf event at the southgate muni course back in the day…
The most electric atmosphere I experienced at the Silverdome was watching the Panthers destroy the Oakland Invaders to advance to the USFL championship game. I still can’t get the cheesy Panthers’ song out of my head (to the tune of “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land” included the lyrics ...”from Bobby Hebert to Anthony Carter”). Anyway, I loved the first 2 years of the Panthers in the USFL.
Did that other league fold? XFL or whatever had started up again before the pandemic. Or are they just on a pandemic break?
Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) bought the XFL back in August for something like $15-$20 million. So its definitely not dead. The guy wouldn't have bought it if he wasn't planning on resurrecting it, but I'm guessing it'll be a while before that product gets back on the field.
I don't think there has been any kind of official announcement from him, his investors or anyone else about when they'll be back. But if you made me guess, I'd assume the XFL will be back within a couple years.
AAF went down. XFL went down, but was bought by the Rock and some others and is coming back in 2022. I liked the AAF mostly because I was in Orlando at the time at college and they played at our stadium.
Narrator: "One year later"
USFL GONE IN SPRING '23
But triple that and add interest and now you're talking real money!
(which is how a minority owner)
How a minority owner what? Finish the damn sentence.
I'm pretty sure they meant "now".
Yeah, I was being cheeky. I'm never sure when I need to use the /s or jk
My daughter has really been into the TV show Bluey lately and "being cheeky" has become one of our households favorite phrases
It's definitely an underused word. I called someone a cheeky bugger one time and they had no idea what I meant. And it doesn't quite work as well without the British accent.
We should hang out, put Bluey on for the daughters, and enjoy some dad time. We align on a lot of issues and preferences, and apparently the daughters do as well.
Also, Bluey is the shit for those parents out there that are dying watching Cocomelon or Little Baby Bum or some shit.
Im a huge fan of cartoons anyway, but Bluey is amazing for a kids show.
I can sit down and watch it even if the kiddo isn't around and get a good laugh. Plus the messages that show sends are top notch.
BLUEY! My daughter loves Bluey also. I prefer it over the Mickey Mouse clubhouse (OHH TOODLES) and puppy dog pals.
We try to limit her tv time, but it seems like one of those shows is always on in the background.
XFL actually was mildly enjoyable before the pandemic shutdown. Even with the McMahon money cannon and being pumped by ESPN wasn't enough it seemed. With them trying to keep it going I don't know what a new USFL will bring. There just isn't enough of an appetite for second rate football out-of-season.
The only way one of these leagues does well enough is if they take a G League model; which is much more difficult in football than it is in basketball
LOLOL, but WHY?!
This will be what, the 4th football league they've tried to start in the last 5 years?
I'll give it 2 seasons.
Holy shit—look who was one of the announcers for the first USFL championship game:
The HC of Philadelphia was Jim "Playoffs??" Mora.
They had a lot of good, well known players for a while
Sad he won't be able to call the new ones.
Listening to him again reminds me how goddamn smooth he was—was never fumble-tongued or mush-mouthed, didn't use "ah" or "umm", didn't blather simply to fill air space between plays.
I highly recommend going to 2:44:10 of that video for the dagger TD by AC.
That Panthers O-Line: 250, 267, 265, 250, 256. Huge.
Love seeing Bobby "Cocaine Eyes" Herbert, Anthony Carter, and (especially) John Corker. Brings back memories. I'll also note that the heaviest man on the offensive line for the Panthers was a guard that weighed in at 265. Everyone else was 260 or lower.
Edit: Didn't see that big old lunker at 267 when the video rolled by. Oopsie.
They just keep trying to make Fetch happen.
A 2nd pro football league is never going to work again. People should stop lighting their money on fire trying to make it happen
You think so ? It was threatening the NFL, because it was crazy popular, and they had it squashed. The demand is there. It was refreshing to watch the Panthers. It was a solid league.
1984 is that way ⬅️
Yup. It was going swimmingly until the owner of the New Jersey Generals decided they should move the season to fall and compete directly with the NFL.
What a dope.
I wonder whatever happened to that guy.
I thought you guys became good buddies?
He became the greatest president of the United States! Good thing he got out of football.
Millard Fillmore owned a football team?
I heard he started a blog