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More pro football coming to Detroit
Ishmael Hyman and Joe Walker of the Michigan Panthers have fun after scoring a landing final season. Photograph: Michael Reaves/Getty Pictures
The USFL’s Michigan Panthers are coming dwelling.
Driving the information: The Panthers will play their dwelling video games at Ford Subject beginning in April, the league introduced yesterday.
- The second-year league performed all its common season video games in Birmingham, Ala. final yr.
- One other USFL squad, the Philadelphia Stars, may even name Ford Subject dwelling.
Flashback: The unique USFL, which bears no relation to the brand new startup league outdoors of its title, additionally had a Michigan Panthers workforce.
- A 1983 Panthers playoff sport drew 60,000 on the Pontiac Silverdome, based on the Detroit Information.
- They received the USFL championship that yr.
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