Someday we will get to all eight defunct clubs of the Alliance of American Football here on FWiL, but we’ll start today with the Arizona Hotshots. Either because we are going alphabetically, or because it’s the only AAF team we’ve been able to track down a game program for the anchor the article. (R.I.P. game programs, by the way).
The 1979-1981 Houston Apollos were a doomed minor league hockey entry in the Central Hockey League (CHL). The name was a tribute a previous CHL club named the Apollos that played from 1965 to 1969 as a Montreal Canadiens farm team. Both the versions of the Apollos played in the old Sam Houston Coliseum. The “new” Apollos folded in the middle of their second season in January 1981.
The American Defenders of New Hampshire were an ill-conceived independent pro baseball team that set up shop at Nashua’s Holman Stadium in 2009. Ownership’s heavy-handed military fetish extended to a plush soldier mascot named “Ground Zero” who sported the uniform number 9-11. Nashua fans wisely saved their money and the team was evicted from the stadium late in the season for unpaid bills that included stiffing the first responders who provided police and fire details at Defenders home games. Incredibly, former Boston Red Sox General Manager and future Baltimore Orioles GM Dan Duquette was mixed up in this mess.
Piedmont League (1934-1955) Born: 1934 Folded: July 14, 1955 First Game: Last Game: Piedmont League Champions: 1934, 1936, 1937, 1943, 1951, 1953 1934-1940: Bain Field 1940-1955: High
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).
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