The Omaha Mustangs were a minor league football outfit that played at Rosenblatt Stadium from 1964 thru the mid-1970’s. At their peak, the Mustangs competed in the Continental Football League in 1968 and 1969, a loop that had a nationwide footprint and could claim to be the third-best pro football league in the United States, behind the NFL and its rival, the American Football League.
Texas Football League (1968, 1970) Continental Football League (1969) Trans-American Football League (1971) Born: 1968 – The Fort Worth Texans re-brand as the Fort Worth Braves Folded:
Continental Football League (1969) Born: 1969 – CoFL expansion franchise Folded: September 21, 1969 First Game: August 30, 1969 (W 34-33 vs. Oklahoma Thunderbirds) Last
This doomed, obscure minor league football outfit played just one regular season game in the Continental Football League (1965-1969) in the summer of 1967 before going out of business. The Long Beach Admirals were one of seven clubs that formed the new seven-team Western Division of the CoFL as the league expanded to the West Coast for the first time in 1967.
The Seattle Rangers were a three-year entry in the Continental Football League (1965-1969), a sprawling late ’60’s attempt at creating a “triple-A” level of professional football, a cut below the NFL and the AFL. The Rangers were the highest level of pro football played in the state of Washington until the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks arrived in 1977.
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