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Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?

📅 2009 ⭐ 7.0 🕐 53m US US
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Documentary

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?”

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Cast
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Director Michael Tollin Editor Greg Parsons Executive Producer Bill Simmons Executive Producer Connor Schell Executive Producer Joan Lynch Executive Producer John Dahl Executive Producer John Skipper Executive Producer Keith Clinkscales Executive Producer Michael Tollin Original Music Composer Chris Maxwell Original Music Composer Pete Kneser Original Music Composer Phil Hernandez Producer Matt McDonald Producer Mitch Wright Writer Michael Tollin
Production
Triple Threat Productions
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