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Illustration of head coach Dick Coury on the cover of the 1983 Boston Breakers media guide from the United States Football League

Boston Breakers (1983)

The Boston Breakers were one of twelve original franchises in the springtime United States Football League (1983-1985).  Expectations were low for Head Coach Dick Coury’s club, which failed to sign virtually all of its draft picks and fielded a team of low budget, no-name NFL training camp cuts, Canadian Football League castoffs and prison parolees. To nearly everyone’s surprise, the Breakers finished 11- 7 and narrowly missed the final playoff spot.  Coury was named the USFL’s Coach of the Year.

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