The Las Vegas Locos were the dominant team in the United Football League, an expensive minor league boondoggle that staggered through parts of four seasons from 2009 to 2012. The Locos were the only team to take part in all four campaigns and won the league championship in 2009 and 2010 with former New York Giants head coach Jim Fassel at the helm.
Canadian Football League (1994) Born: July 26, 1993 – CFL expansion franchise Folded: April 1995 First Game: July 8, 1994 (W 32-26 @ Sacramento Gold Miners) Last
The Las Vegas Seagulls were a 2nd Division pro soccer club that lasted just one season in the American Soccer League in the summer of 1979. The Seagulls lost their final 11 games to finish in last place in the ASL’s Western Conference with a 7-18-3 record.
Sin City’s entry in the often derided XFL of 2001 produced two of the league’s success stories, helping to launch long NFL careers for two of its players: wide receiver Mike Furrey and running back Rod Smart. Smart was also responsible for one of the XFL’s enduring images – his uniform name plate that read “He Hate Me” and received lots of camera attention during the XFL’s debut NBC national television broadcast in February 2001. The Outlaws and the XFL folded after one season of play in May 2001.
Arguably Las Vegas’ first Major League sports team, soccer Quicksilvers lasted only for one season during the summer of 1977. The club’s finest hour came in their home opener at Las Vegas Stadium on April 9th, 1977. The match pitted the Quicksilvers’ aging Portuguese superstar Eusebio against the glamorous New York Cosmos and Brazilian legend Pele. Pele knocked Eusebio out of the match with a hard slide tackle in the 38th minute. But the Quicksilvers shocked the powerful Cosmos 1-0 on a goal by Victor Arbelaez.
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