Joliet Explorers
December 21, 2014
The Joliet Explorers were a low-level minor league football team formed in 1964 as an expansion club in the United Football League. The franchise would play for three seasons, jumping to the Professional Football League of America in 1965 and 1966 after the demise of the UFL. The Chargers were champions of the PFLA in 1965. Future television and movie star John Amos (Good Times, Die Hard 2) played running back for the Explorers in 1964. The team changed its name to the Joliet Chargers in 1967 and folded at the end of that season.
