MCN Sports | The United Football League Starts in September »
Posted By ej1956 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News(New York, N. Y.) -- The news that the United Football League plans to start playing in October should be great news for players, their agents and even the new Executive Director of the National Football League Players Association DeMaurice Smith. In theory, the National Football League will have a competitor and competition generally has driven salaries higher as was the case in the late 1940s when the All American Football Conference was around and that repeated in the mid-1950s when the Canadian Football League was offering higher salaries than the NFL and the same thing happened between 1960 and 1966 when the American Football League existed as a competitor. In 1974, the World Football League came along and drove up salaries and the United States Football League was writing checks between 1983 and 1985 that delighted players but not NFL owners.
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