![Week 1 - 1985: NJ Generals vs Birmingham Stallions [Flutie's 1st Pro Game]](https://vidvio.s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/storage/DB7txPsy/thumb-4.jpg)
1984 Week 1 - Sunday, February 26, 1984
Attendance: 62,300
TV: ABC
[Note: If you want to skip all the pregame analysis forward the video to the 6:30 minute mark where the game begins]
For Donald Trump, the free-spending, free-talking owner of the New Jersey Generals, the first day of the United States Football League's second season was a harbinger of great things to come. Ballyhooed newcomers like Mike Rozier, Joe Cribbs and Cliff Stoudt can only hope so.
"It's big this week and it will keep on going up," an ebullient Trump said Sunday as he surveyed the league-record crowd of 62,300 that turned out at Birmingham's Legion Field to watch Brian Sipe lead the Generals to a 17-6 win over the Birmingham Stallions.
"It will get bigger next week and it will be the biggest yet two weeks from now," said Trump.
Birmingham's Cribbs and Stoudt, two heralded jumpers from the National Football League, were pretty well shut down by a New Jersey defense with eight new starters, most of them lured from the National Football League. Stoudt was lifted in the third quarter after completing 6 of 13 passes for only 51 yards; Cribbs gained 52 yards in 16 carries.
Sipe, who left the Cleveland Browns to sign with New Jersey, completed 12 of 24 passes for 175 yards and fullback Maurice Carthon ran for two 1-yard touchdowns.
Herschel Walker, who said he was "running real cautiously" because of a sore shoulder, gained 43 yards for the Generals.
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