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Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? (2009)

ALL 10/20/2009 (en) Documentary 53 Min
  • Release
    10/20/2009
  • Production
    Triple Threat Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    70%
  • Original title
    Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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For three glorious years, football was 365

Overview

In 1983 the upstart United States Football League (USFL) had the audacity to challenge the almighty NFL. The new league did the unthinkable by playing in the spring and plucked three straight Heisman Trophy winners away from the NFL. The 12-team USFL played before crowds that averaged 25,000, and started off with respectable TV ratings. But 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. Now, almost a quarter of a century later, Academy Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning director Mike Tollin, himself once a chronicler of the league, will showcase the remarkable influence of those three years on football history and attempt to answer the question, “Who Killed the USFL?”

  1. Michael Tollin

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Greg Parsons

    Editor



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Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL? (2009) 53 Min

ALL 10/20/2009 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 10/20/2009
  • Production
    Triple Threat Productions
  • Original title Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

For three glorious years, football was 365

Overview

In 1983 the upstart United States Football League (USFL) had the audacity to challenge the almighty NFL. The new league did the unthinkable by playing in the spring and plucked three straight Heisman Trophy winners away from the NFL. The 12-team USFL played before crowds that averaged 25,000, and started off with respectable TV ratings. But 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. Now, almost a quarter of a century later, Academy Award-nominated and Peabody Award-winning director Mike Tollin, himself once a chronicler of the league, will showcase the remarkable influence of those three years on football history and attempt to answer the question, “Who Killed the USFL?”

  1. Michael Tollin

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Greg Parsons

    Editor

  4. Matt McDonald, Mitch Wright

    Producer



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