In fact, Trump only makes a cameo appearance in the first half of the book to let USFL officials know that he would not pursue his interest in owning a team because he was too busy with his real-estate business. Some advertisers who bought time this season seem skittish about reenlisting. But U.S.F.L. early vote totals looking REALLY GOOD FOR MAGA! Non-fiction sports books generally fall into two categories: a biography, or the recounting of a team’s or a league’s noteworthy existence. [6] The contract required the USFL to schedule a minimum of three games on Sunday, with ABC guaranteed to broadcast one game nationally (the aforementioned, Sunday afternoon game-of-the-week) or two or more regionally. ABC claimed to have made a profit from its coverage of USFL during the 1983 season. Directed by Michael Tollin. The Arizona Wranglers, despite having the worse record of the two participating teams, got to host the 1984 Western Conference championship game because the Coliseum was being prepared for the 1984 Summer Olympics. The spring advocates had lost and the fall advocates would accept nothing less than victory vs. the NFL, either by forcing a merger or winning a sizeable settlement and securing a TV network for fall broadcasts. [2], James was born in Jacksonville, Texas, in 1961 and grew up in the Houston, Texas area. We understood it. Two years later, Gerald Eskenazi of the New York Times praised the innovation, writing on March 19, 1985, that "The U.S.F.L. Neither James' recruitment nor his participation in the SMU football program were cited by the NCAA in levying sanctions against SMU. "We are pretty pleased with the results", said an ESPN spokesman, who noted that the network's overall USFL rating average was almost 50% higher than its prime time average for their entire fourth quarter of 1982. Prior to becoming a sportscaster, James was a professional football player for the New England Patriots of the National Football League and for the Washington Federals of the United States Football League. This was slightly better than the network's coverage of the first American Football League football season back in 1960. The league took over the team for the 1985 season, which was an unmitigated disaster. He was a major factor in the Patriots' 31–14 upset win over the Miami Dolphins in the AFC title game, rushing for a career postseason high of 105 yards. To accommodate Arizona's oppressive summer heat, as well as the ABC Sports television schedule, the game kicked off at 8:30 p.m. local time, 11:30 p.m. Eastern time. The low attendance figures began to prove very embarrassing and frustrating both to the league and ABC, which had hoped for a more credible product to emanate from the nation's second-largest media market. James said in 1998 that the Wisconsin Badgers were "the worst team to ever play in the Rose Bowl." To his credit, Pearlman is a storyteller who veers neither too far left or right. [6] The contract required the USFL to schedule a minimum of three games on Sunday, with ABC guaranteed to broadcast one game nationally (the aforementioned, Sunday afternoon game-of-the-week) or two or more regionally. Local support for the Gold practically vanished. [6], In his freshman year in 1979, James proved more reliable than Dickerson, outgaining him 761 yards to 477, and was named the Southwest Conference's Offensive Newcomer of the Year.