USFL Sues for NFL Split-Up

The USFL, vowing “We’re not going to go away,” asked a federal court today to split the NFL into two totally separate conferences and knock the established league off one of the three major networks.

The motion, an outgrowth of the USFL’s $1.69-billion antitrust suit against the NFL, was made to U.S. District Judge Peter Leisure, who presided at the 10-week trial. The USFL was awarded only $1 in damages--trebled under antitrust law to $3--and the NFL was found liable on just one of nine counts in the suit. It was that one antitrust finding--that the NFL was a monopoly--on which the USFL based today’s motion.