Defunct Football Tapestries

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 Chicago Cardinals Football Team

Defunct Pottsville Maroons Football Team

Defunct Dallas Texans Football Team

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Defunct Chicago Hornets 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.

The Memphis Showboats were an American football franchise in the United States Football League. They entered the league in its expansion in 1984 and made the 1985 playoffs, losing in the semifinal round to the Oakland Invaders. Perhaps the most prominent players on the Showboats' roster during their two seasons of existence were future Pro Football Hall of Fame member Reggie White and future professional wrestler Lex Luger.

Defunct Milwaukee Mustangs Football Team

Defunct Milwaukee Mustangs Football Team

Defunct Chicago Cardinals Football Team

Defunct Baltimore Stars Football Team

Defunct Oklahoma Wranglers Football Team

Defunct Buffalo Destroyers 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 Honolulu Hawaiians Football Team Helmet

Defunct Southern California Sun Football Team

Defunct Montreal Alouettes Football Team Helmet

Defunct Shreveport Steamer Football Team

Defunct Rochester Tigers Football Team

Defunct Silverdome Football Stadium

Defunct Ottawa Rough Riders Football Team Helmet

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.

Defunct Ottawa Rough Riders Football Team

Defunct Boston Bulls Football Team

Defunct Montreal Alouettes Football Team

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Defunct Empire Football League

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 Montreal Alouettes Football

The Detroit Driver was a a member of the Arena Football League (AFL) from 1988 to 1993. The club then moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1994 and played in that city at the Massachusetts Marauders through the end of the 1994 season.

Defunct Denver Dynamite Football Team

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 New York Yanks Football Team

The Eugene Bombers were a professional American football team based in Eugene, Oregon. The Bombers played their home games at Bethel Park in Eugene. The team was founded in 1966 as a member of the Pacific Football League. After one season in the Pacific League the Bombers moved to the Continental Football League's newly formed Pacific Division. The Bombers became inactive in 1968 due to the lack of a suitable stadium and never reactivated.