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Donald Trump rips NFL, new Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula

ByPhil Watson|
Jul 26, 2014; New York, NY, USA; Donald Trump attends the middleweight championship bout between Gennady Golovkin (not pictured) and Daniel Geale (not pictured) at Madison Square Garden. Golovkin won via third round knockout. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports
Jul 26, 2014; New York, NY, USA; Donald Trump attends the middleweight championship bout between Gennady Golovkin (not pictured) and Daniel Geale (not pictured) at Madison Square Garden. Golovkin won via third round knockout. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports

Donald Trump, good loser—or not. The bombastic billionaire took to social media Monday to blast the NFL and the new owner of the Buffalo Bills after his failed bid for the team.

Donald Trump, the billionaire who helped assassinate the USFL in the 1980s, took off on a Twitter rant against the NFL and the Buffalo Bills in the wake of his failed bid to purchase the team.

Trump wanted to get back into the pro football game and was one of the unsuccessful bidders for the Bills after the death of founding owner Ralph Wilson earlier this year.

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Trump owned the New Jersey Generals in the now-defunct USFL in the mid-1980s and is widely blamed for causing the demise of that league by pushing the other owners into a move from the spring to the fall to directly challenge the more-established NFL.

The USFL never played a game in the fall and folded shortly after winning an antitrust suit against the NFL that netted the upstarts a $1 judgment, which was trebled under antitrust law to $3.

Trump also took a swipe at the NFL:

So apparently Trump bid $1 billion to buy into a product that he doesn’t like. Smart businessman, that one.

Last month, Trump gave himself credit for the purchase price Pegula paid to the Wilson family, so delusion is still a specialty.

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