The United States Football League is attempting to find success where other start-up leagues failed in recent years, but if nothing else comes from this league, we’ll still have one of the stranger roster decisions ever in professional football.
With the start of its inaugural season, the USFL put together a Hard Knocks-like documentary series called, United By Football: A Season in the USFL, and the recent episode brought us to the Pittsburgh Maulers cutting loose former Michigan running back De’Veon Smith.
Now, there was a lot of buildup to this decision. Head coach Kirby Wilson spoke about how the franchise had zero tolerance for unprofessionalism and disrespect. So, just based off that, you’d think that Smith must have really stepped out of line. He was brought in to the coach’s office, and when Wilson broke the news to Smith, we found out that the whole ordeal was over Smith simply preferring pizza to chicken salad.
