Football

The Houston Outlaws were a part of the Regional Football League. The league played one season in the spring of 1999 before folding.??

The Louisville Breckenridges, or Brecks for short, were members of the National Football League from 1921 to 1924.

For their final season, the Chicago Rockets of the AAFC were known as the Hornets. When the league merged with the NFL after the 1949 season, the Hornets players were divided between the Bears and, the then Chicago, Cardinals of the NFL.

The short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF) launched in spring 2019. The AAF folded halfway through its inaugural season.

The Pontiac Silverdome, better known as just the Silverdome, opened in 1975 in suburban Detroit. Its primary tenant was Detroit's pro football team. They left for a new downtown stadium in 2001. The city's pro basketball team played there for a decade (1978-1988). Other...

This shirt features an alternate logo for??The Cincinnati Rockers, the Queen City's Arena Football League team that played from 1992 to 1993 at Riverfront Coliseum.

On October 2, 1973, a press conference was held in Chicago to announce the formation of the the World Football League (WFL). It kicked off in July of 1974 as a rival to the established National Football League (NFL). At first, it seemed like...

The Charleston Rockets played their first season in the original United Football League in 1964, In 1965, they became charter members of the Continental Football League (CFL). The team played a total of five seasons and ceased operations in January 1969.

Established in 1931, the St. Louis Gunners were an independent football team that played the final three games of the 1934 NFL season after the collapse of the Cincinnati Reds football club. They beat Pittsburgh in their first league meeting but lost to Detroit...

The Minneapolis Marines were a professional football team established in 1905. An independent team for most of its existence, it joined the American Professional Football Association in 1921, that league's second season. The team ceased operations after the 1924 season but reformed as the...

The Montreal Beavers were established in 1961 as the Indianapolis Warriors in the United Football League. In 1965, the team moved to Ft. Wayne and joined the Continental Football League. In 1966, the club was sold and moved to Montreal where it was renamed...

The Charlotte Rage were an Arena Football League team that played from 1992 to 1996.??Their home field was the Charlotte Coliseum, except for the 1995 season when they played in Independence Arena.

Everyone knows about "The Drive," but do you know about the ORIGINAL Drive that took place one week earlier?

The original Bills football team was established in 1946 as the Bisons in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). In 1947, after a name-the-team contest, the new name was selected. In 1949, the NFL absorbed several AAFC teams but, oddly, the Bills were not one...

Everyone knows about "The Drive," but do you know about the ORIGINAL Drive that took place one week earlier?

The Birmingham Iron were charter members of the short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF), a league that launched in spring 2019. It folded halfway through its inaugural season.??

The Denver Dynamite??were one of four teams established for the inaugural season of the Arena Football League in 1987.??The franchise suspended operations for the 1988 season but returned in 1989 playing until 1991. Their home field was McNichols Arena.??

Charter members of the????????Arena Football League (AFL), the Washington Commandos were established in 1987. They played in the league's inaugural barnstorming season before taking the 1988 season off. They returned in 1989 as the Maryland Commandos and played their home games at the Cap...

Riverfront Stadium, later Cinergy Field, was the home of the Reds from 1970 until 2002. The team captured three World Series titles (1975, 1976, and 1990) while playing there.

The All-America Football Conference, or AAFC, was founded in 1945 by Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward in 1944 to challenge the established National Football League. Ward's new circuit debuted in 1946 with eight teams and played for three seasons before the NFL absorbed...

The Tampa Bay Storm played in the Arena Football League from the league's inception in 1987, until it's demise in 2017. Founded as the Pittsburgh Gladiators, the club moved to Tampa in 1991. The team made the playoffs in 24 of its 26 seasons...

The Northern Kentucky River Monsters were an indoor football team that played their home games at??NKU's Bank of Kentucky Center (now BB&T Arena). For their inaugural season in 2011, they were part of the Ultimate Indoor Football League (UIFL), before going on a two-year...

The Ft. Wayne Freedom was an indoor football team established in 2003. In their seven seasons, they played in three different leagues: The National Indoor Football League, United Indoor Football, and the Continental Indoor Football League. The team also operated as the Fusion and...

He's an artist on the field.

The New Orleans Night in the Arena Football League starting in 1991 and 1992. Their home field was the Superdome. The team folded before the start of the 1993 season. In 2004, the city welcomed a new Arena League team, the VooDoo, who played...

The Cincinnati Rockers played in the Arena Football League in 1992 and 1993, before suspending operations due to low attendance. The Rockers played their home games at Riverfront Coliseum (now U.S. Bank Arena).

In 1999, the Arena Football League formed AF2 as a farm league and as well as a way to bring the sport to mostly smaller markets. Cincinnati joined up in 2003 with the??Swarm who??posted a 7 and 9 record in their only season.??They drew...

In 1920, the Dayton Triangles were founding members of the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The team played in the very first game between two league teams when they met the Columbus Panhandles on October 3, 1920 in Dayton's Triangle Park. They played their...

The Barcelona Dragons were charter members of the World League of American Football (WLAF) and played from 1991 until 2003. They won the World Bowl in 1997. OS16118

The Rhein Fire played in the World League of American Football (WLAF), later called NFL Europe, from 1995 until the league folded in 2007. Based in Dusseldorf, they won World Bowl titles in 1998 and 2000. OS16115