When the Michigan Panthers take the field for the first time this April in the new United States Football League, they'll be led out of the tunnel by the great ... Jeff Fisher.
That's right, a man with 22 years of head coaching experience in the NFL, including a near Super Bowl title with the Titans, is jumping back into football in the USFL.
Why not?
Fisher hasn't coached since 2016 when he was fired by the Rams midway through their first season in LA. At the time, he had coached 350 games in the NFL including the playoffs, with 178 wins.
The other seven head coaches in the USFL have coached 93 NFL games combined, with 33 wins.
The entire league will be based in Birmingham, AL, with each team playing a 10-game schedule that will run from mid-April to mid-June, followed by the playoffs.
Rosters will be drafted later this month and the season will kick off April 16 with a Saturday night game between the Birmingham Stallions and New Jersey Generals that will be broadcast on both FOX and NBC -- making it the first sporting event to air on competing networks since Super Bowl I in 1967.