USFL wins with football and fun, not politics
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Sunday the Philadelphia Stars will play for the USFL championship. They will take on the Birmingham Stallions to cap the inaugural season of this second version of the USFL.
David Marcus is a columnist living in New York City and the author of "Charade: The Covid Lies That Crushed A Nation."
Fox executive Mike Mulvihill said of the USFL experiment, "All we wanted to do is demonstrate that spring football can do viewership at the levels of Premier League, NHL regular season, Formula One or MLS. … We want to show we belong in that category, and I think that happened." A big part of the recipe for the ratings was that the USFL was truly football for football’s sake. And in sports these days, that is much rarer than it should be. Fox has renewed coverage for next year.
In just the past few years we have see Major League Baseball remove the All Star Game from Georgia over a voting bill that wound up leading to record turnout, we saw Black Lives Matter logos emblazoned on NBA courts, ESPN, once the home of sports, now often resembles left wing cable news with a few scores scrolling by occasionally.
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