The last professional football team in Michigan to win a championship is not the Detroit Lions. It’s the Michigan Panthers of the short-lived USFL, who won the league’s inaugural championship back in 1983.
Well, the Michigan Panthers are coming back into existence. The USFL is returning to play in April and they have decided to start with the eight original teams that kicked off the league nearly 30 years ago: the Birmingham Stallions, the Houston Gamblers, the New Jersey Generals, the New Orleans Breakers, the Philadelphia Stars, the Pittsburgh Maulers, the Tampa Bay Bandits and your Michigan Panthers.