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The USFL is back? Maybe even in Chicago? It could be just crazy enough to work

The United States Football League is making a comeback?

God bless America.

There might be another pro football team in Chicago?

Make it happen.

“You know what? Give it a shot,” is where Hall of Fame coach Marv Levy stands.

I had to call Levy, a hometown football treasure, and take his temperature on news of a USFL return in the spring of 2022. There will be teams in at least eight cities — all locations to be determined — with the league holding rights to the original names from its 1983-1985 existence. And how great some of those names were: the Houston Gamblers, the Memphis Showboats, the Birmingham Stallions, the Boston Breakers.