Category: World Football League

1975 San Antonio Wings program from the World Football League

San Antonio Wings

January 20, 2013

The San Antonio Wings were a new franchise in the second and final season of the World Football League (WFL) in 1975. The WFL was an attempt to directly challenge the supremacy of the National Football League, as the American Football League had done successfully a decade earlier. The Wings only managed to play 13 games before the entire league went belly up in October of 1975. This Jekyll-and-Hyde squad was unbeatable at home at Alamo Stadium (7-0) but hapless everywhere else, dropping all six of their road games.

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1975 Chicago Winds Media Guide from the World Football League

Chicago Winds

December 29, 2012

The World Football League’s second attempt to establish a franchise in the Second City was dead in the water after Joe Namath rejected the Chicago Winds’ contract offer and the league failed to secure a television contract. The Winds, in fact, would stage just one home game at Soldier Field in August 1975 before closing up shop.

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1974 Portland Storm Media Guide

Portland Storm

December 17, 2012

Big league professional football came to the Rose City in 1974 with the formation of the upstart World Football League. The Portland Storm were one of the WFL’s weaker entries initially, starting 0-7-1 before an infusion of NFL veteran talent helped spur a late season surge. The Storm folded after the 1974 season only to be replaced by the barely-renamed Portland Thunder for the 1975 season, which proved to be the WFL’s last.

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Southern California Sun World Football League

Southern California Sun

April 19, 2011

The Southern California Sun was an Anaheim-based franchise in the World Football League of the 1970’s. The Sun were known for their psychedelic (by the prevailing standards of pro football) magenta and orange uniforms and for signing top-flight USC stars Anthony Davis and Pat Haden.

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