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Shreveport Pirates Canadian Football League

Shreveport Pirates

September 27, 2019

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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Shreveport Steamer American Football Association

Shreveport Steamer (1978-1981)

May 6, 2018

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.

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1975 Shreveport Steamer program from the World Football League

Shreveport Steamer (1974-1975)

February 25, 2013

The Shreveport Steamer brought pro football to the unlikely confines of Western Louisiana when the World Football League’s Houston Texans moved halfway through the 1974 season. They stayed on until halfway through the 1975, whereupon they went out of business with the rest of the league.

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