Editing United States Football League (section)

===The 1985 season===
{{main|1985 USFL season}}
* Gamblers minority owner Jay Roulier agreed to buy the Express, but was pushed out in short order during training camp after it emerged that he had misled league officials about his net worth. The league took control of the team and decided to run it on a shoestring until a new owner could be found. The league financed and ran the Express all season, but could not find an owner. With a huge salary burden and dreadful attendance, the Express barely survived the season.
* Owners agree to a 4-year CBA with the [[United States Football League Players Association]].<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rrBOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cPsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4461,5933196&dq=1986+usfl+draft&hl=en Lakeland Ledger] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119083559/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rrBOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cPsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4461,5933196&dq=1986+usfl+draft&hl=en |date=November 19, 2015 }} (via Google News Archive Search)</ref>
* [[San Antonio Gunslingers (USFL team)|San Antonio Gunslingers]] owner [[Clinton Manges]] stopped paying the team's bills with about a month to go in the season.
* The [[Denver Gold]]'s attendance flatlined due to the planned move to the fall, as fans were not willing to choose between the Gold and the NFL's [[Denver Broncos|Broncos]].  The Gold would have hosted a playoff game against the [[Memphis Showboats]], but ABC forced the league to move the game to Memphis rather than endure the embarrassment of playing in a near-empty [[Mile High Stadium]].
* Stallions owner Marvin Warner was forced to give up control of the team after [[Home State Savings Bank]], the Cincinnati savings and loan he controlled, was brought down in a massive run, one of the first casualties of the [[savings and loan crisis]]. Unfortunately, the Stallions' emergency letter of credit was drawn on Home State, rendering it worthless. Team president Jerry Sklar urged the Stallions' limited partners to chip in more money, and persuaded the city government to buy a $100,000 stake in the team along with a $900,000 credit line. This allowed the Stallions to finish out the season.