 On the flight home, Hunt and Adams decided to recruit the other bidders as owners of teams in a new professional football league.New York City attorney William Shea was attempting to create the Continental League, a rival league to Major League Baseball.Hunt met with him, and Shea suggested Harry Wismer, a former sportscaster who had been a minority shareholder in both the Washington Redskins and Detroit Lions, as a potential New York franchise owner for the new football league.