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2001 Los Angeles Xtreme Media Guide from the XFL

Los Angeles Xtreme

January 25, 2013

The Xtreme were the first and only champions of the original XFL, the start-up pro football league conceived by WWE wrestling kingpin Vince McMahon. The Xtreme won the league’s “Million Dollar Game” championship at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum on April 21, 2001 only to watch the league fold three weeks later. The team did help to re-launch the career of starting quarterback Tommy Maddox, a former NFL 1st round draft choice who won XFL Most Valuable Players honors in 2001 and became the NFL’s Comeback Player-of-the-Year in 2002 as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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1974 Los Angeles Aztecs Media Guide from the North American Soccer League

Los Angeles Aztecs

June 30, 2012

The Aztecs were L.A.’s sporadically glam soccer club of the 1970’s.  The club won the North American Soccer League championship in their expansion season of 1974.  At various times, the Aztecs had ties to everyone from George Best to Elton John to the Dutch midfield genius Johan Cruyff.  But the club also bounced from one ill-fitting stadium to another every year or two and suffered from revolving door ownership.

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