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UFL: A major challenge to stay minor

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Monday, April 27, 2009

Carl Peterson was the most successful executive in the late, great United States Football League, which during the mid-1980s tried to carve out a niche in the NFL-dominated pro football world. His Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars won the last two championships in the league's three-year existence; and later, he spent two decades as the top football man for the Kansas City Chiefs. Recently, Peterson was asked to assess the viability of another would-be challenger to the NFL, the United Football Leag ...

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