Richmond Rebels
The Richmond Rebels were a financially distressed minor league football operation that wobbled through three seasons of play during the mid-1960’s. The Rebels formed in 1964 as an expansion team in the semi-pro Atlantic Coast Football League. The ACFL was a 14-team loop in 1964 with teams stretched the length of the Eastern seaboard from Atlanta to Portland, Maine. In 1965, the Rebels joined with three other ACFL clubs to split off from that league and join the new and more ambitious Continental Football League for the 1965 season.