Entity Which Owned The Jacksonville Bulls
USFL Trivia Question
What was the name of the corporate entity which owned the Jacksonville Bulls?
Answer:
JAX Professionals, Inc.
What was the name of the corporate entity which owned the Jacksonville Bulls?
Answer:
JAX Professionals, Inc.
Which United States Football League team owner (who never fielded his team) ran pro wrestling shows in the 1970’s?
Answer:
Eddie Einhorn co-founded the I.W.A. wrestling promotion. He owned the rights to the Chicago franchise for the 1985 USFL season after buying the Chicago Blitz and went “dark” until he intended to field a team in the fall of 1986
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Einhorn
http://prowrestling.wikia.com/wiki/Independent_Wrestling_Association_%28Eddie_Einhorn%29
Who was the first (interim) commissioner of the USFL in 1982, before the signing of Chet Simmons?
Answer:
Peter Spivak, who also was a minority owner of the Michigan Panthers
Which well-known Hollywood actor was a minority owner of the Tampa Bay Bandits before the first USFL season started in 1983?
Answer:
Burt Reynolds
Which USFL team owner served as the Ambassador to Switzerland before becoming an owner?
Answer:
Marvin Warner, who owned the Birmingham Stallions
Here is a fun video interview with a current UFL owner who was a minority owner in the USFL’s Oakland Invaders:
It touches on some of the same issues the USFL faced in its inception.
David Dixon, the founder and creator of the USFL, passed away this week at the age of 87:
Back in 2002 I had a chance to talk with him for over an hour in his art gallery in New Orleans. His hospitality and willingness to talk with a virtual stranger about the USFL will not be forgotten.
USFLMemorabilia.com expresses our deepest condolences to the Dixon family and his friends and those in his business during this time.
If the USFL documentary, “Small Potatoes: Who Killed The USFL” had been given an extra hour on tonight’s show, then which important topics would you like to have seen addressed? You are welcome to leave your comments provided that they are relevant, use clean language, and are on point.
Here are one man’s suggestions for additional topics which could have been addressed (in no particular order):
Again, there are probably dozens more unique stories which could have been covered. At least it finally showed (on a national level) respected NFL Hall of Famers talking about how much fun they had while being in the USFL!
Here Mike Tollin’s response to Donald Trump’s “Small Potatoes” comment about the USFL, during the filming of the USFL documentary which airs this week: http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/36191/director_mike_tollin_responds_to_donald_trumps_usfl_documentary_anger
Here are the clips from 30for30.espn.com on the upcoming USFL documentary: http://30for30.espn.com/film/small-potatoes-who-killed-the-usfl.html
The show will air later this month, October 2009.
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