Event Date: October 15th, 1984
Event Description: Honolulu Blitz?
Source: United Press International
A Honolulu restauranteur Monday confirmed negotiations were in progress to purchase the Chicago Blitz of the U.S. Football League and move the team to the islands.
"We're at the point now where talks are in the delicate stage,” Joe Sullivan said. "So I really have no further comment.”
A story in the Sunday Chicago Sun-Times said Sullivan offered $7.5 million to Blitz owner Eddie Einhorn for the franchise.
“I don't know how they (the Sun-Times) got that information, but it's not totally accurate,” said Sullivan, who also said no information was supposed to have been released on the negotiations.
Sullivan reportedly has offered $6 million for the USFL's Los Angeles Express should the Chicago deal fall through.
He said a USFL owners' meeting in Jacksonville, Florida., this weekend would have a heavy bearing on his attempt to move a franchise to Honolulu.
“Out of that meeting will come a lot of important decisions so I'm just hanging in there,” Sullivan said.
Sullivan declined to identify members of his group attempting to bring a professional team to Hawaii.
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