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He's back: Jeff Fisher agrees to become first coach of the USFL's Michigan Panthers

There will be no 9-7 or 8-8 jokes about Jeff Fisher in the USFL's first season. The league plans to play only 10 games this season.

Fisher, the longtime coach of the Tennessee Titans and then Los Angeles Rams, has resurfaced. The Michigan Panthers announced Thursday they've hired Fisher to be their first head coach. The reboot of the USFL, which made a splash as a spring football league for a few years in the 1980s, will start on April 16.

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