Not sure how much it was touched on as I haven't seen it yet, but Vince basically set up this league all out of spite... a few years earlier, Ted Turner was contemplating or outright planning to do a summer football league.
No way Vince would have that happen, considering the Monday Night Wars that was in full swing at that time and those two guys were about as disdainful about each other as you could expect.
Vince's ego took over, and figured he could do it better, and, first, and costs be damned (obviously this was before WWE was a public company)...so just getting a major network like NBC involved and the league off the ground with actual proper football people and players was a miracle in itself. Having a major project like this, starting a league from the ground up (I remember the press being surprised that Vegas was taking odds on games) actually legitimized, ahead of Turner, and able to shove it in Ted's face was vindication that he was the better promoter, and that was a huge personal and professional victory all by itself.
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