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For all you are suffering from the early exit of the Lions like me, remember that there's still football coming up other than that last game a couple of teams are playing this Sunday. Maybe the Panthers will have a stand out edge this season that the Lions can sign??

Here's the 2025 schedule (all times are Eastern):

Week 1 - Sun, Mar 30 - 12:00noon @Memphis Showboats - ESPN
Week 2 - Fri, Apr 04 - 8:00pm vs. Birmingham Stallions - FOX
Week 3 - Sun, Apr 13 - 12:00noon vs. San Antonio Brahmas - ABC
Week 4 - Fri, Apr 18 - 8:00pm vs. Memphis Showboats - FOX

Week 5 - Sat, Apr 26 - 7:00pm @St. Louis Battlehawks - ESPN
Week 6 - Sun, May 4 - 12:00noon vs. DC Defenders - ESPN 2
Week 7 - Sat, May 10 - 1:00pm @Arlington Renegades - FOX
Week 8 - Sat, May 17 - 1:00pm @Houston Roughnecks - FOX
Week 9 - Sat, May 24 - 3:00pm @Birmingham Stallions - ABC

Week 10 - Sat, May 31 - 3:00pm vs. Houston Roughnecks - ESPN

The schedule's a little odd with three home games early and three road games late, but I imagine that's based on availability of the venues more than anything.

This also appears to be the first year that all teams will play their home game in their home cities.

 

 

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3 hours ago, Hongbit said:

I have to admit that I was wrong and never in a million years did I think this thread would exist when the league started.  

I'm a little surprised myself. While I was alive when the original Mi Panthers were around I was relatively young and not much into football, so I had to look up some stuff on it. The original Panthers only played two seasons and the original USFL only had three season. This will be the fourth season of the New Panthers.

Technically the new USFL only lasted two seasons (before merging with the XFL to become the UFL) so old USFL lasted longer.

Doing some wiki-research, the end of the (original) Panthers is kinda interesting. Taubman was the owner of the Panthers. After the 1984 season when the owners were planning to move the season to the Fall, Taubman, a Lions fan and friend of WCF, didn't want to do it. (Side note: The two owners who were apparently spearheading the push to move to Fall were Chicago Blitz owner Eddie Einhorn and NY Generals owner Donald Trump.) Taubman figured the Panthers would never be able to compete straight up with the Lions (if he even wanted to) and wouldn't be able to find a local college stadium to play in anyway so instead merged with the Oakland Invaders.

So I supposed for those who aren't Trump fans you have one more reason to dislike him: The fall of the original USFL.

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