The Rhein Fire were an American Football team from Dusseldorf, Germany that competed for 13 seasons in the NFL-sponsored World League / NFL Europe between 1995 and that league’s demise in 2007. The Fire appeared in five World Bowls, winning twice, and helped launch the NFL careers of overlooked players such as linebacker James Harrison and running back Fred Jackson.
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“They called me ‘The Undertaker’,” Rudi Schiffer, 75, told me by way of introduction. “Because I buried so many teams. When I walked in the door, people said ‘Uh-oh…we‘re done‘”.
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