Simmons Resigns Post as USFL Commissioner

NEW YORK —  Chet Simmons resigned Monday as commissioner of the United States Football League, the league announced, and the man rumored to be his successor arrived in New York to “continue a dialogue” about the job with the league’s club owners.

Los Angeles attorney Harry Usher, who was executive vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, arrived late Monday from Los Angeles.

“I’ve been talking off and on for two months or so with various USFL owners” about the commissioner’s job,” he said. “I would consider it under the proper set of circumstances, and I have talked periodically with various owners . . . concerning it.

“Hopefully I can continue the dialogue positively.”

Usher was considered the right-hand man of Peter Ueberroth, the president of the LAOOC who became commissioner of baseball Oct. 1, shortly after the financially successful Olympic Games ended.