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Found pictures of an actual USFL replica jersey. They are crap. https://www.ebay.com/itm/403705065290?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=yVlKB9wsSSK&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=ZZApCq1xStO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I'd put my money on all eight teams playing in Birmingham again next season, assuming there is a next season.

Pittsburgh really earned its 1-6 record yesterday by head coach Kirby Wilson pulling his starting QB down 7 with four minutes left in the 4th quarter for a guy from D2 Slippery Rock the team just signed this past Tuesday, because he didn't like the starter's "body language." The announcers did everything short of outright calling Wilson an idiot for the move.

I'm at a Kane County Cougars game right now, and they're beating the Dockhounds 10-0 in the top of the 4th. Their players are almost entirely not American Association caliber, and the uniforms feature whatever gray pants they could get on the cheap. Some have piping, some don't and some are MLB surplus. I stand by my statement.

Has anyone here ordered a USFL jersey through their store? If so, have you received it yet?

I believe they are playing in two stadiums, both in Birmingham.

So we can look forward to three empty stadium games every week and one 1/3 to 1/2-full stadium for the Stallions game. Keep in mind that tickets are $10 and kids get in free. There is no more merchandise available in the league store than there was the day of the uniform unveilings. Again, I am at a loss to understand why there is big corporate money being thrown at this. For those of you living in the other seven "markets": Do the teams have any sort of local marketing or promotional presence, or is it all just whatever the league and networks put out nationally?

This whole Dockhounds launch has had a strong air of a municipality wondering what it's going to do with an empty ballpark about two years from now.

Do we know any of the specifics in the league's broadcast deals? I know networks are desperate for live sports to drive viewers, but I was stunned to see the debut game will be aired simultaneously on Fox and NBC. Buying airtime for both?

My belief is that they were placeholder names with MLB intending to sell the naming rights to each league like the NBA did to its minor league. But then MLB found out that the market price for branding a regional league that they had turned into damaged goods by stripping out its history and massacring a quarter of the product wasn't what they'd hoped for.

USFL owners suing somebody for damages? Oh, this always goes well.

Wausau Woodchucks unveiled their road jersey - or a replica version of it, at least. Game hats have not been released yet, so this is a tonal fashion hat.

USFL replicas are selling for $80 on their online shop. There's no actual pics of them though, just graphics, and they show some differences from the actual unveiled jerseys. So you may want to hold off until actual product photos start hitting.

First look at a Panthers jersey outside of an edited professional shoot:

From the neck down, they're fine. Nice stripe consistency and color usage. The helmet is garbage, the logo is a joke, and the name cannot be used for any team or league seeking legitimate national exposure in 2022. We're a quarter-century removed from "Bullets" and several years from the Calgary Stampeders using crossed pistols as an alternate logo.

Whoa whoa whoa, one scam at a time there, pal.

This makes me want one little addition to the new Panthers jersey - light blue pinlines in the numbers.

Look, I think we should give the new USFL credit. Because when it comes to an upstart football league, seeing red everywhere is basically truth in advertising.

Holy cow, I was actually right about something!

For 1984, the Arizona Wranglers also had a red jersey paired with metallic (copper) helmets and pants, but they ended up wearing white at home and on the road for the entire season. So that's 7 out of 18 wearing the same primary color.

Football for a Buck has a lot more stories from the field and the players. The $1 League is almost 100% focused on ownership and the league office, and fills in a lot of the picture that I haven't read or heard in other places. It makes you understand how the league really was going on a wing and a prayer for its entire existence, even pre-Trump, and while he was definitely the main accelerant on the dumpster fire, he was far from the only big problem in the room. You will come away knowing what a lying sleaze Eddie Einhorn was, for one.

I think the last one you listed there answers your question.

The $1 League is the name of the book, written by USFL exec Jim Byrne as the ashes were still cooling in 1986. It is the most thorough and unsparing look at all the years of poor decisions and self-delusion that led up to the famous verdict.

My favorite Gunslingers stories are, in no particular order: 1) Using house paint instead of special turf paint on the Alamo Stadium field to save money, which led to players getting skin infections; 2) team employees making up for missed paychecks by stealing and selling the folding chairs used to increase seating; and 3) this incompetent criminal skinflint of an owner turning out to be the pivotal person in getting the league aligned with Donald Trump's grand vision of fall football.

If you spend some time reading about the interactions between USFL owners, you'll find out that it was nothing short of a minor miracle that both teams showed up fully clothed for every game, no matter the color schemes.