Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?

Directed by Michael Tollin
2009    53mDocumentary
7.0
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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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  • Donald TrumpSelf
  • Burt ReynoldsSelf
  • Herschel WalkerSelf
  • Michael TollinSelf / Director / Writer / Executive Producer
  • Keith ClinkscalesExecutive Producer
  • Deirdre FentonAssociate Producer
  • Peter GenesiAssociate Producer
  • Joan LynchExecutive Producer
  • Dave SchechtmanAssociate Producer
  • Connor SchellExecutive Producer
  • Bill SimmonsExecutive Producer
  • John SkipperExecutive Producer
  • Matt McDonaldProducer
  • Mitch WrightProducer
  • John DahlExecutive Producer
  • Jon TuckerDirector Of Photography
  • Greg ParsonsEditor
  • Phil HernandezOriginal Music Composer
  • Chris MaxwellOriginal Music Composer
  • Ryan KleierSound Effects

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