Had his 2014 bid for the Buffalo Bills worked out, he probably wouldn't be running for president now.
"I did it a little tentatively," Trump says of his offer. "When I put the bid in for the Buffalo Bills, I always was a little concerned if the NFL would remember how I knocked the hell out of them."
"This is more exciting," he said of his presidential campaign. "And it's a lot cheaper."
"I have a warm spot in my heart for that period,Cheap Jerseys From China," Trump said. "I had a great time."
It's been 30 years since the demise of the United States Football League,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, an upstart group that Trump led in a high-profile but ultimately unsuccessful legal battle against the NFL. Along the way,Cheap Jerseys Paypal, Trump signed high-profile players such as quarterback Doug Flutie and others, basked in national publicity and antagonized the NFL every chance he got.
"If I bought that team, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing," he said in an interview with The Associated Press.
More recently, Trump was a contender for the Buffalo Bills. He says he submitted a billion-dollar offer for the team in 2014, though other accounts of the sale process pegged his offer below that.
That's probably for the best, he says.
He challenged the Jets to a $1 million exhibition match. He briefly signed Lawrence Taylor away from the New York Giants — forcing the Giants to pay to get the star back. He led fellow USFL owners to challenge the NFL as a monopoly in court, a maneuver intended to force a merger of the two leagues.
Had Trump won the bid, he would have needed the approval of a two-thirds majority of the NFL's owners. Though he expressed confidence at the time that NFL owners wouldn't hold a grudge, "I think they might have," Trump says now. "I would not have wanted to get a modern-day rejection."
Trump surfaced nonetheless as a possible buyer of the New England Patriots in 1988, just two years after the USFL case. (The Boston Globe reported he dropped out over unwillingness to cover the Patriots' $104 million in debt at the time.)
Though the USFL won only a token $1 jury verdict, the NFL got stuck paying tens of millions of dollars to cover both sides' legal fees.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's flirtation with professional football lasted for three decades. He never ended up with an NFL franchise despite repeated demonstrations of interest,Cheap China Jerseys Authentic.
Trump never faced that test; he was outbid. That was for the best, he now says.

The NFL's owners at the time might not have had so much fun,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, Trump acknowledges, and the specter of the USFL has loomed over his repeated flirtations with NFL ownership.