And in your ninth decade? Maybe a little decompression is needed here. Starting with grandma. Maybe for all Cubs fans. It’s a good time to remember how baseball actually, all elite North American pro leagues works. We’re talking Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League. These leagues are closed entities, with 30 to 32 franchises, in all the major cities, with very little if any outside competition, essentially members of legal cartels. There are rules, drafts, salary caps, players’ unions, trade deadlines, fines, revenue-sharing, etc. And nobody else can get in. Leagues that try to compete well, good luck. Check the United States Football League and its sad history for evidence.
Former Wranglers preach patience, stability for new USFL
July 30, 2021
Before Rick Neuheisel coached the Arizona Hotshots at Sun Devil Stadium, he played quarterback for the San Antonio Gunslingers, a team in the USFL that also had a franchise based at the Tempe stadium. The USFL is returning in 2022. (Photo by Christian Petersen/AAF/Getty Images)
PHOENIX – The United States Football League of the mid-1980s brought sports fans a three-season whirlwind of front-office intrigue, roster turnover and eventually litigation, occasionally interrupted by some decent spring football.
Before imploding in spectacular fashion in 1986 amid a failed move to the fall, the league, broadcast on a fledgling ESPN, introduced future stars like Steve Young and Herschel Walker to fans nationwide.
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Today in History
Today is Thursday, July 29, the 210th day of 2021. There are 155 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA.
On this date:
In 1856, German composer Robert Schumann died in Endenich at age 46.
In 1890, artist Vincent van Gogh, 37, died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
In 1914, transcontinental telephone service in the U.S. became operational with the first test conversation between New York and San Francisco. Massachusetts’ Cape Cod Canal, offering a shortcut across the base of the peninsula, was officially opened to shipping traffic.
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