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By Alex Atwell - Photojournalist
WDIV 4 - Detroit
The magical year was 1983 and the United States Football League (USFL) had been recently born. It was a new professional football league that was formed after a strike-shortened NFL season. They would play their games in the spring. Michigan's team was the Panthers, and they would play at the Silverdome in Pontiac.
Pete Spivak Jr. was a young boy at the time. His father had an entrepreneurial spirit and decided to leave the bench as a circuit court judge to pursue a football dream. He got involved with the ownership group of the Panthers and immediately earned league-wide respect.
Over the last 30 years, you would probably have guessed that the 1983 Michigan Panthers team would have been honored with an induction into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame, but they haven't.
What do you think? Should the 1983 USFL Champion Michigan Panthers be inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame?
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