Owners of the United States Football League...

Owners of the United States Football League sat through a briefing by their attorneys in Memphis, Tenn., and emerged confident that they will win their $1.32-billion antitrust lawsuit against the National Football League.

“If we don’t win the lawsuit, the league doesn’t fold,” said Myles Tanenbaum of the Baltimore Stars. “But that’s like saying today isn’t Thursday. There is no way I can imagine that we don’t win this lawsuit.”

The USFL owners began two days of meetings, with league realignment, rules changes, a television contract and scheduling a player draft on the agenda.

The league, which has played three seasons, is asking a U.S. District Court judge in New York to find the rival NFL in violation of illegal monopoly on stadiums, players, officials and television rights