Ontario Rugby Football Union (1898-1902) Quebec Rugby Football Union (1903-1906) Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (1907-1957) Canadian Football League (1958-1996) Born: 1898 Folded: November 6, 1996 First
Yes, strange as it sounds, but the small, poverty-stricken city of Shreveport, Louisiana once had its very own Canadian Football League franchise: the Shreveport Pirates. The Pirates’ shambolic leadership made a series of head-scratching personnel moves, including the signings of troubled over-the-hill NFL stars Dexter Manley and Mark Duper, and fired the team’s first head coach before taking a regular season snap. Meanwhile the team staggered to a two-year record of 8-28 in the CFL before going out of business at the end of the 1995 season.
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