Event Date: November 21st, 1982
Event Description: Scallen Seeks Football Franchise
Source: New York Times
Thomas Scallen, a Minneapolis businessman, is suing the Minnesota Vikings and the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission for the right to rent Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome for the U.S.F.L. team he hopes to bring to the city. The commission had rejected his request because of a clause in the Viking contract that guarantees exclusive use of the stadium for professional football.
In other USFL news:
A prison inmate in Illinois who is serving a 12-year sentence for armed robbery was given a free-agent tryout by the Chicago Blitz in the Logan Correctional Center yard. Twenty-three-year-old Mike Sifford, who has served four and a half years and is due for parole at the end of 1983, impressed George Allen, the general manager, part owner and coach of the fledgling United States Football League franchise.
Story-(NY Times/UPI)
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