Football

The Portsmouth Spartans were established in 1928 and played in Southern Ohio for six seasons. IN 1934 they were purchased for $8,000 by a Detroit radio executive who moved the team to Michigan. They were renamed the Lions and became one of the most successful...

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The Orange County Ramblers played in the Continental Football League (CFL) in 1967 and 1968. Their homefields were Anaheim Stadium and Santa Ana's Municipal Stadium. In 1967 , the team went 10-2 and made it all the way to the championship, which they hosted. They...

The Harrisburg Capitols were members of the Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL) from 1963 to 1969. For most of their existence, they were a farm team for the Baltimore Colts. The ACFL was a minor professional football league that operated from 1962 until 1973....

The Orlando Americans??were a minor league football??team playing??for one season in the somewhat obscure??American Football Association (AFA), playing at??Orlando Stadium also known as the Citrus Bowl.??

The Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL) was a minor professional football league that operated from 1962 until 1973. Many of the clubs had agreements with pro organizations to be farm teams. In 1969, after the collapse of the Continental Football League, the ACFL absorbed...

The Chicago Owls were established in 1967 and played in the Professional Football League of America (PFLA). In 1968, several PFLA teams, including the Owls, joined the Continental Football League (CoFL). The Owls moved into Soldier Field, while the NFL Bears were still playing...

The Grand Rapids Rampage played in??the Arena Football League??from 1998 to 2001. Their home field was the Van Andel Arena. They won the league's championship, the Arena Bowl, in 2001 but folded with the rest of the original league in 2009.??

The Colorado Crush was the city of Denver's second foray into the Arena Football League. They played from 2003 to 2008. Their home field was the Pepsi Center (now Ball Arena). The city's first Arena Football League Team was the Denver Dynamite.??

The Toronto Phantoms played in the Arena Football League??from 2001 to 2002. The team started in 1997 as the New York CityHawks. In 1999, the team moved to Hartford and became the New England SeaWolves, before moving to Ontario in 2001.

The Chicago Enforcers??represented the Windy City in the short-lived XFL. The league was a joint venture between NBC and the World Wrestling Federation (now the WWE) but disbanded after its one and only season in 2001.

The Memphis Mad Dogs were part of the Canadian Football League's expansion into the United States in the mid-'90s. They played their home games at the Liberty Bowl. They played only one season, 1995, before the league contracted all of its U.S. teams in...

The Memphis Express 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 original Bills football team was established in 1946 in Buffalo 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...

The Las Vegas Outlaws of the Arena Football League, not be confused with the XFL (2001) team of the same name, played one season in Sin City. They were owned by rocker Vince Neil and folded after the 2015 season.

Youngstown native Bernie Kosar played for the Browns from 1985 to 1993 and remains one the teams most beloved stars. Beginning with his rookie season in 1985, he led the Browns to five straight play-off appearances including the AFC Conference Championship game in 1986,...

The Louisville Bulls??were a semi-pro football team that played from 1988 to 2011. For their first two seasons they played as an independent team. In 1990 they joined the Hearts of Ohio Football League (HFL) leaving that circuit in 1992 to join the Mid...

The Portland Storm played in the World Football League (WFL) in 1974. Playing their home games at old Civic Stadium, the Storm finished with 7 wins, 12 losses, and 1 tie. The GM was former AFL great Ron Mix, and the head coach was...

The city's almost NFL team in 1995. Abandoned by the Colts in the middle of the night in 1984, Baltimore tried for years to either lure an existing team to town or get an expansion team. In 1993, the city came close to the...

The Orlando Breakers were a fictional 1995 NFL expansion team, featured on the ABC series?????Coach.?????

Seven years after the departure of the city's team for Washington, Boston got a new pro football team in 1944. For four years the Yanks called the city home and formed quite a rivalry with Philadelphia.

Not long after Dallas joined the league, Chicago became a key rival, even though they were in different divisions. Remember the glory days of one of pro football in this fun design from Old School Shirts.

The Outlaws were members of the original XFL in 2001 season, that league's only season. The team finished with 4 wins and 6 losses while averaging 22,000 fans a game at Sam Boyd Stadium. The Outlaws hosted the first nationally televised XFL game on...

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The Dallas Texans played in the Arena Football League from 1990 to 1993. After failing to meet league financial obligations, they folded. Indoor football returned to the area in 2002 in the form of the Desperados, who played until 2008. The Dallas Texans was...

The Berlin Thunder played in the World League of American Football (WLAF) in 1999. They played until the league folded in 2007 and captured the World Bowl title in 2001, 2002, and 2004. OS16116

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The Virginia Sailors were members of the Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL) from 1966 through 1968. They split their home games between Wakefield High School Stadium, Montgomery Field, and Herndon Stadium. Unlike subsequent Virginia teams, the sailors were based in suburban DC as opposed the...

"Death Valley in Baton Rouge is the loudest stadium I've ever been in." - Adrian Karsten Nary a team has made it out of the stadium forebodingly known as Death Valley in Baton Rouge.

The Florida Blazers of the World Football League started off as the Washington Ambassadors, though they never played a down in the nation's capital. Unable to secure a stadium there, the team wound up in Central Florida and made it all the way to...