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American sports have seen their share of colorful minor leagues, but none quite as crazy as the USFL, which, as Pearlman writes, "enlisted your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, your one-armed and chain-smoking and half-blind and clinically insane." 

-- from Michael Schaub's review of Football for a Buck, a book that I'm now going to have to get based on the review alone.