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Donation Options Search Search Search New Jersey Generals running back Herschel Walker takes a hit against the Chicago ... Bowl history. Blitz coach Marv Levy in 1984. The USFL was fun and ridiculous.
The USFL was weird. Weird players ... folders with the team logo. Anything that said “Chicago Blitz” was deposited into a dumpster. In Allen’s overly competitive world, if the new Blitz ...
Donation Options Search Search Search Donald Trump (right), then owner of the New Jersey Generals of the USFL, introduces ... sink the new league. The Chicago Blitz chairman and first coach ...
CHICAGO – Nearly four decades ... led to its shutdown. The Blitz never even made it that far as they played just two seasons in the USFL. In that first season, the team led by head coach George ...
This happened because Blitz owner Dr. Ted Diethrich, a prominent heart surgeon who lived in Arizona, didn’t want to fly to Chicago for games. (That’s not how the USFL spun it, of course.) ...
Worth remembering: The Wranglers were traded after the 1983 season. Dr. Ted Diethrich of Arizona owned the Chicago Blitz and dealt his team to Arizona's owners, who wanted the Chicago market.
Are you angry that The Man (in this case, then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle) spent far too much time keeping the USFL down when ... New Jersey Generals, Chicago Blitz, Tampa Bay Bandits, and ...
You remember the USFL, don’t you? The Blitz featured veterans like QB Greg ... Mississippi, and Wichita Falls, Texas, came to Chicago in 1994 after Major Broadcasting Companies purchased it.