Donald Trump doesn’t have Burt Reynolds’ vote.
In his memoir, Reynolds talks about the short-lived United States Football League, a spring-summer league that kicked off in 1983.
Trump owned the league’s New Jersey Generals, and Reynolds was part-owner of the Tampa Bay Bandits.
Reynolds blames Trump for the league’s failure.
“There are always guys who come out of the woodwork and take everything they can. Donald Trump was one such offender,†he says.
He says Trump alone wanted to compete directly with the NFL in the fall, which the other owners and officials saw as unrealistic.
Trump, Reynolds believes, “was angling for a merger with the NFL so he could wind up with an NFL franchise for a song.â€
“[Trump’s] personal ambition sank the USFL,†he says.
“I pray he never gets the chance to do to the USA what he did to the USFL.â€
Spoken like a true FSU grad.