The Dallas Texans played just one season in the National Football League. Mid-way through the 1952 campaign, the owners handed the franchise back to the league, who ran it until its assets could be sold to a group from Baltimore, who then re-established the Baltimore Colts.
The second pro football team to call themselves the Dallas Texans were charter members of the American Football League in 1960. The previous Dallas Texans of the National Football League folded eight years earlier. The AFL Texans spent three seasons in North Texas before relocating to Missouri and becoming the Kansas City Chiefs.
Major League Soccer (1996-2004) Born: June 6, 1995 – MLS founding franchise Re-Branded: August 2004 (FC Dallas) First Game: April 14, 1996 (W 1-0 vs. San
That the Dallas Tornado existed as long as they did – 15 seasons from 1967 to 1981 – is a testament to the endurance of American Football League founder Lamar Hunt and fruitcake baron Bill McNutt. The Tornado existed longer than the famed New York Cosmos. They developed the first American-born “Superstar” of the soccer (at least by ABC’s definition) in Kyle Rote Jr. But the team was never wildly popular in Dallas. The club wandered around the metroplex in nomadic fashion, shifting among five different stadiums in little more than a decade of play.
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