Mike Tollin

Well, we interviewed 33 people, and two dozen of them pretty much pointed to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street.

I mean, he bought into a league that was designed to play football in the spring from the end of the Super Bowl to the beginning of training camp for football fanatics.

It's the only sport in the country where the appetite is insatiable, and they'll watch it all year long, as long as you can bet on it.

I mean, look, even the Arena Football League,

which was kind of mini football, lasted for 22 years.

So there was something that was working, that people were loving.

So that was USFL.

So he comes in, and from day one, he says, we're moving to the fall.

What?

No, that's not the idea, Donald.

We're playing in the spring.

But he couldn't get in the NFL.

What happened at the time was the Jets had moved with the Giants to the Meadowlands, so now they're both New Jersey teams essentially.

And as a real estate guy, Donald sees Shea Stadium vacant, no team in the NFL in New York City.

This is an opportunity for him as a real estate guy, hungrier than anybody in the world in the

history of the world maybe for publicity.

So he can now have the profile of being on the back page in the New York Post and working his way up, as Charlie Steiner says in the film, to page six and then to the front page, and then maybe getting his way through the back door into the NFL by forcing a merger.

But he doesn't wait to build the league, to be in a position to compete.

From day one, he basically says, I don't care what you guys have done.

I don't care about the millions of dollars you've thrown into this.