A group of owners and executives from the original USFL is suing Fox over its use of USFL

Awful Announcing

The lawsuit filed today by "The Real USFL LLC" alleges that Fox's USFL, which is scheduled to launch April 22, is an "unabashed counterfeit." As Awful Announcing points out, "in the lawsuit, a link to the original version of the Fox press release on June 3, 2021, includes language that implies that Fox owns all of the rights to the USFL trademarks and that the new league is a continuation of the original. However, when you visit that same link now, those references have been removed and the release implicitly states that the new USFL is not affiliated with the old USFL, though they do claim to own the necessary trademarks."