Ji FU reviewed The $1 league by Jim Byrne
Trump ruined football before he ruined America
3 stars
Above all what I learned most from this book is that Donald Trump has always been a peice of trash.
The United States Football League started with a fervent idea. Americans love their football so give them more of it in the spring. When Dixon defined it he was able to get support by showing desire from fans, and the key to making it a success was marketing well while keeping costs, particularly salaries, low.
After the first week end had amazing TV ratings and attendance the rest of the owners decided they knew better than Dixon. By the end of the year everyone had gone way over the spending goals and way under TV ratings, with the only team to have made a profit was the only one that followed the plan.
By the next year they wanted to expand, and the future president of the …
Above all what I learned most from this book is that Donald Trump has always been a peice of trash.
The United States Football League started with a fervent idea. Americans love their football so give them more of it in the spring. When Dixon defined it he was able to get support by showing desire from fans, and the key to making it a success was marketing well while keeping costs, particularly salaries, low.
After the first week end had amazing TV ratings and attendance the rest of the owners decided they knew better than Dixon. By the end of the year everyone had gone way over the spending goals and way under TV ratings, with the only team to have made a profit was the only one that followed the plan.
By the next year they wanted to expand, and the future president of the United States deciy he wanted in on the deal and immediately took to trying reshape the league in his own image.
Long story short a lots of egos, no one able to keep their mouth shut not to mention a desire to believe all good rumors and ignore all bad rumors, they followed Trump's lead off the end of the world. They sued the NFL on anti-trust wforfs & won, for which the court awarded them $1 in damages.