Has any other football franchise ever been sunk by an ill-conceived controlled scrimmage? That may be the case with the semi-pro Tacoma Express of the short-lived Minor League Football System (MLFS).
This second incarnation of the Shreveport Steamer was a minor league re-boot of the original Shreveport Steamer (1974-1975) of the defunct World Football League. The team was part of the American Football Association, a dysfunctional and ever-shifting collective of semi-pro teams based primarily in Texas and the southeastern U.S. from 1977 to 1983.
The Vandergrift Pioneers were a Class C minor league baseball team in Westmoreland County, Western Pennsylvania. The Pioneers served as a farm club of the Philadelphia Phillies for three-and-a-half seasons from 1947 to 1950. The Pioneers were the champions of the Middle Atlantic League in their debut summer of 1947. The team disbanded due to financial difficulties midway through the 1950 season.
Ramshackle minor league football outfit that existed for all of three games during the fall of 2015. The Fort were members of the Fall Experimental Football League for the second and final season of that doomed venture. The league-owned franchise leased a 4,500-seat minor league baseball stadium in Fiskhill, New York and borrowed the front office staff of the New York-Penn League’s popular Hudson Valley Renegades baseball team for promotion and operations.
Continental Basketball Association (2007-2009) Born: July 2007 Folded: ? First Game: November 16, 2007 (L 123-118 @ Pittsburgh Xplosion) Last Game: CBA Championships: None East Kentucky Expo Center
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