As a student, Donald Trump played high school football. As a business baron, he owned a team in an upstart rival to the NFL ...

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Sunday will become the first sitting U.S. president to attend a Super Bowl – but the former reality television star has a long and complicated history ...

The United States Football League (USFL) was an American football league which was in active operation from 1983 to 1985. It played a spring/summer schedule in its first three seasons and a ...

AP File Photo Doug Flutie ... he owned the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League. Trump had sued to force a merger of the USFL and the NFL. The USFL eventually folded.

Perhaps most infamously, Trump bought into the upstart United States Football League in the 1980s and sought to compete directly with the NFL, a move widely seen as helping to doom the nascent league.