One team is dreaming of Iverson

With NBA teams continuing to hem and haw over the pros and cons of making a trade for Allen Iverson, a minor league team has stepped up to the plate.

The Fullerton Flyers have offered the Philadelphia 76ers their 2006 most valuable player and the rights to another player who has starred in popular television commercials.

Side note: The Fullerton Flyers are a baseball team.

The Flyers’ trade proposal includes Golden Baseball League MVP Peanut Williams, who drove in 75 runs in 80 games last season, and the rights to Nigel Thatch, famous for his “Leon” Budweiser commercials.

“This seems like a perfect scenario for Iverson,” Flyers General Manager Ed Hart said in a tongue-in-cheek news release. “Once he finds out that from June 1 until the end of the season we never practice, and only play games, I think he will want to come here in a heartbeat!”

The news release quoted Williams saying, “I would love to go to Philly and play for [76ers President and General Manager] Billy King. I played some hoop in high school, and I can probably make a bit more than the $1,800 per month that the Flyers pay me.”

Thatch, who was actually traded from Schaumberg to Fullerton for 60 cases of Budweiser, could not be reached for comment, according to the release. The Flyers consider Thatch expendable, as he held out for more money and never signed with the club.

The release said the Flyers, who have faxed an official trade offer to the 76ers and plan to use Iverson as a second baseman and leadoff hitter, “are now awaiting an answer about ‘The Answer.’ ”

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Trivia time

The Flyers, who begin their third season next May, are managed by what former major-league All-Star shortstop?

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Going deep into the pocket

The passing of Lamar Hunt reminded John Madden of a story during the early days of the American Football League, when Hunt’s Dallas Texans -- now the Kansas City Chiefs -- were taking a sizable financial hit.

Madden told the Kansas City Star, “When I knew the AFL was going to make it was after the first year of the AFL, and someone went up to Lamar’s dad, H.L. Hunt, and said, ‘Your son, with this new league, has lost $1 million,’ and Lamar’s dad said, ‘Well, at that rate, he can only go another 100 years.’

“That statement by Lamar Hunt’s dad said this AFL isn’t going to go away. That’s when the NFL realized that.”

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Or something like that

Reader Mike Dudnikov passed along another story involving another AFL founding father named Hilton: “One day Conrad ‘Nicky’ Hilton, onetime husband to Elizabeth Taylor, ran into an old friend who made the following statement: ‘Hey Nicky, heard you bought a baseball team and made a million dollars on it last year.’

“To this Nicky replied: ‘Well it wasn’t me, it was my brother Barron. And it wasn’t a baseball team, it was a football team [the Los Angeles Chargers]. And he didn’t make a million, he lost a million.

“ ‘But other than that you’ve got the story exactly right.’ ”

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Trivia answer

Garry Templeton.

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And finally

A highlights video of USC’s 2006 football season shown at last Thursday’s awards banquet made no mention of the Trojans’ loss to UCLA, according to Scott Olin Schmidt, writing on the USC football AOL sports blog.

The film ended with the Nov. 25 victory over Notre Dame, followed by a collection of the best plays from the Nov. 18 triumph over California.

Look for the Bruin-free USC highlight video, coming soon to a store near you. You will find it on the same shelf as the DVDs of the Soviet Union’s 1980 Olympic ice hockey gold-medal victory and the Baltimore Orioles’ 1969 World Series championship parade.

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mike.penner@latimes.com