The San Antonio Toros were a powerhouse minor league football squad of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Between 1967 and 1971 the Toros won five consecutive league titles, thanks to a unusually stable core of returning players that came back to the Toros year after year. The Toros disappeared from the scene in 1975 after getting displaced by the San Antonio Wings of the more ambitious World Football League.
The Rhode Island Indians were a minor league football team that played a single season in the Continental Football League during the autumn of 1965. The team played at City Stadium in Providence. The Indians were dreadful, finishing their only season at 3-14 before going out of business. But starting quarterback Tom Kennedy would go on to play 6 games for the NFL’s New York Giants the following year in 1966.
This West Virginia minor league football outfit that enjoyed a perfect season in 1965 and also launched the career of one of the NFL most fearsome pass rushers of the 1970’s.
The Richmond Rebels were a financially distressed minor league football operation that wobbled through three seasons of play during the mid-1960’s. The Rebels formed in 1964 as an expansion team in the semi-pro Atlantic Coast Football League. The ACFL was a 14-team loop in 1964 with teams stretched the length of the Eastern seaboard from Atlanta to Portland, Maine. In 1965, the Rebels joined with three other ACFL clubs to split off from that league and join the new and more ambitious Continental Football League for the 1965 season.
The Arkansas Diamonds were a professional minor league football outfit that played two seasons in the state capital Little Rock at the end of the 1960’s. The Diamonds were part of the Continental Football League, an ambitious but rickety minor league circuit that featured teams from coast to coast. The Diamonds played teams from as far away as Seattle and Orlando during their two seasons of existence.
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