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Michigan was undoubtedly a great success of the USFL. At the start of the 1983 season, this young team offered the prospect of an exciting game. However, the first 5 games were bad and Michigan lined up four defeats before recovering and winning a spot in the playoffs with a total of 12 wins (including 6 in a row!) And the championship division.

On July 10, at the Silverdome in Pontiac, they defer in the semifinals of the Oakland Invaders (37-21) in front of over 60,000 fans before going to Denver win in the final of the first championship, winning 24-22 against the other big franchise the USFL, the Philadelphia Stars.

This success from the outset, it is due to some exceptional players like QB Bobby HEBERT (27 touchdowns for 3,568 yards passing), the receiver Anthony CARTER (60 receptions for 1,181 yards races), but John WILLIAMS, Derek HOLLOWAY or Mike COBB too.

The Panthers began the 1984 season on an impressive series of six victories before the game against the San Antonio Gunslingers of where CARTER broke his arm and ended his season. After the beautiful mechanical stamped down and is somewhat narrowly, winning the last two games of the season that Michigan offered again, a ticket to the playoffs.

The objective was clearly the championship but the first round of the playoffs against Los Angeles Express will prove much more complicated than expected. It is true that LA had a strong team and this game for many fans, will long be remembered: after a parity score 21-21 at the end of the fourth quarter, it will take 3 overtimes and opportunities wasted by Michigan see fly the Express 21-27.

This will be the last weapon is Team Michigan because with the announcement of the change of the season in 1986, the Panthers lost the Silverdome and were forced to relocate the franchise. TAUBMAN then chooses to bring the franchise to Oakland Invaders not form a single team in 1985.

 

 

  owner(s) coach(es) stadium stats spectators  

1983

1983-84

A. Alfred TAUBMAN

1983-84

Jim STANLEY

1983-84

Silverdome

(80.638 capacity)

1983

12-06

1983

22.250

1984

      

1984

10 - 08

1984

32.457