Defunct Football Magnets

The Detroit Wheels were an American football team, a charter member of the defunct World Football League. Soon after Gary Davidson announced the WFL's formation in October 1973, he was approached by a man named Bud Hucul about putting a team in Detroit. In a harbinger of things to come, however, it emerged that Hucul had a long history of legal problems, including 30 arrests and 27 lawsuits. A more credible offer came from a consortium of ten Detroit-area investors who were formally awarded a franchise on December 13, 1973. The group would eventually expand to 33 people, including singer Marvin Gaye, Motown Records vice-president Esther Gordy Edwards, Milford Fabricating owner Edward Nishon, and Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch.

Defunct Dallas Texans Football Team

Defunct Dallas Texans Football Team

Defunct Pottsville Maroons Football Team

Defunct Chicago Cardinals Football Team

Defunct Milwaukee Mustangs Football Team

Defunct Chicago Hornets Football Team

The Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars were a professional American football team which played in the United States Football League (USFL) from 1982 -1986)

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Defunct Shreveport Steamer Football Team

Defunct Montreal Alouettes Football Team Helmet

Defunct Chicago Cardinals Football Team

Defunct Buffalo Destroyers Football Team

The Arizona Outlaws were a professional American football team that played in the United States Football League in the mid-1980s. During their first season, the team played as the Oklahoma Outlaws. They became the Arizona Outlaws for their second season.

Defunct Southern California Sun Football Team

Defunct Ottawa Rough Riders Football

Defunct Montreal Alouettes Football Team

The Texarkana Titans were a professional American football team based in Texarkana, Texas. They began play in 1967 as a member of the Southern Football League and by 1968 joined the Texas Football League, and became a member of the Continental Football League when the former merged operations with it in 1969. After the Continental Football League dissolved in 1970, the Titans returned to an autonomous TFL. The Titans were just one of the four TFL franchises to remain in the league when it changed its name to the Trans-American Football League (TAFL) in late 1970 where they played for one season.

Defunct Rochester Tigers Football Team

Defunct Ottawa Rough Riders Football Team Helmet

The Continental Football League (COFL) was a professional American football league that operated in North America from 1965 through 1969. It was established following the collapse of the original United Football League, and hoped to become the major force in professional football outside the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL). It owed its name, at least in part, to the Continental League, a proposed third Major League Baseball organization that influenced MLB significantly, despite the fact they never played a game.

Defunct Denver Dynamite Football Team

Defunct Columbus Panhandles Football Team

Defunct Montreal Alouettes Football

The Dayton Triangles were an original franchise of the American Professional Football Association (now the National Football League (NFL)) in 1920. The Triangles were based in Dayton, Ohio, and took their nickname from their home field, Triangle Park, which was located at the confluence of the Great Miami and Stillwater Rivers in north Dayton. They were the longest-lasting traveling team in the NFL (1920–1929), and the last such "road team" until the Dallas Texans in 1952, who, coincidentally, descended from the Dayton franchise.

Defunct Ottawa Rough Riders Football Team

The Bulls were one of the seven teams assured of playing the 1986 USFL season, which would have been played in the autumn. The Bulls had bought the football assets of the Denver Gold during the offseason and were to take on much of that team's staff, including head coach Mouse Davis. The USFL itself was pursuing a large antitrust lawsuit against the NFL at the time; when they failed to secure a sizable judgment against the older league, the USFL suspended operations and eventually folded.

The Norfolk Neptunes were an American football franchise based in Norfolk, Virginia that played in the Continental Football League from 1966 until 1969 and the Atlantic Coast Football League from 1970 to 1971.

Defunct Empire Football League

The Milwaukee Badgers were a professional American football team, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that played in the National Football League from 1922 to 1926. The team played its home games at Athletic Park, later known as Borchert Field, on Milwaukee's north side. The team was notable for having many African-American players for the time. After the team folded following the 1926 season (largely due to being left broke because of a $500 fine by the NFL for using four high-school players in a 1925 game against the Chicago Cardinals, a game arranged after the Badgers had disbanded for the season), many of its members played for the independent semi-pro Milwaukee Eagles. Some of the players from this team went on to play for the NFL.

The Boston Sweepers was a team in the Atlantic Coast Football League. The team was owned by Ted Baron, who also owned a local trash disposal container company, hence the team name "sweepers". The team played from 1962 to 1964 in Boston before moving to New Bedford, Massachusetts and becoming the New Bedford Sweepers. The New Bedford Sweepers folded after the 1966 season. The Sweepers won two championships in the ACFL, 1964 and 1965.

Defunct Chicago Fire Football Team

Defunct Honolulu Hawaiians Football Team Helmet

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Bringing football to the world. The World Football League (WFL) was a short-lived American football league that played in 1974 and part of 1975. Although the league's proclaimed ambition was to bring American football onto a worldwide stage, the farthest the WFL reached was placing a team – the Hawaiians – in Honolulu, Hawaii. The league folded midway through its second season, in 1975.