Since its opening, the stadium has hosted the University of Memphis Tigers football team.

In 1974 and 1975, the stadium hosted the Memphis Southmen, aka “ Grizzlies ,” of the World Football League.

Both the annual AutoZone Liberty Bowl game and the stadium bearing its name have been integral parts of the Memphis community for over four decades, and it can be argued that, unlike the cases of massive amounts that have been spent on many luxurious sports venues for professional sports teams in other cities in recent years, the citizens of Memphis have received a reasonable return on the capital invested in the stadium in the economic activity resulting from all of the events that the stadium has hosted over the years.

The 2010 Championship was hosted by Rhodes College at courthouses in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, while the 2012 Championship was held in Minneapolis.

He next hosted mornings at WHBQ in Memphis while a college student at Memphis State University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1957.

He was active in Warriors community programs during his rookie season, participated in the team's Thanksgiving Food Serving at Patrick David's Cafe in Danville, hosted a halftime Holiday Party for underprivileged children at the Warriors game vs. Memphis on 12 / 22, attended the Warriors Kids Day celebration, as well as the Run With TMC Fantasy Camp reception, and also visited injured American troops just back from Iraq at the National Naval Medical Center outside of Washington, D. C., when the team was in the area in early March.

< small >< sup > 1 </ sup > One of their reigns with the title began in Memphis, Tennessee, though the records are unclear as to which promotion hosted the card.

In addition, Cajun Field hosted the final preseason game of the New Orleans Breakers of the United States Football League on February 18, 1984, a 20-0 victory over the Memphis Showboats.

The Cooper Young Festival, hosted by the Cooper Young Business Association ( CYBA ), is a popular outdoor celebration in Memphis, Tennessee.

Memphis has been represented by several now-defunct professional sports franchises, including the Memphis Pharaohs of Arena Football, the Memphis Maniax of the XFL, the Memphis Xplorers of the AF2, the Memphis Showboats of the USFL, the Memphis Southmen of the WFL, the Memphis Houn ' Dawgs of the ABA, the Memphis Sounds of the original ABA in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the Memphis Mad Dogs of the CFL.

Future Pro Football Hall of Fame members defensive end Reggie White of the University of Tennessee and quarterbacks Jim Kelly of the University of Miami and Steve Young of Brigham Young University, began their professional careers with the USFL's Memphis Showboats, Houston Gamblers, and Los Angeles Express, respectively.

* Jay Hayes, former USFL player with the Memphis Showboats and current assistant football coach with the Cincinnati Bengals.

The Mad Dogs hired Pepper Rodgers as their head coach, who was familiar to Memphis pro football fans as he was the head coach of one of the city's previous pro football teams, the Memphis Showboats of the USFL ( the Mad Dogs had also hired Steve Erhart, the Showboats ' general manager, in the same capacity ).

In 1984, Luger finished his football career playing in the United States Football League for the Memphis Showboats.

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Flutie struggled at times but played well overall until he suffered a broken collarbone against the Memphis Showboats in the season's 15th game and did not play again.

Thornton also served as the chief executive director for the Memphis Showboats of the USFL.

After initially playing two professional seasons for the Memphis Showboats of the United States Football League ( USFL ), he was selected in the first round of the 1985 Supplemental Draft, and then played for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers and Carolina Panthers, becoming one of the most decorated players in NFL history.

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The Memphis Showboats were a franchise in the United States Football League.

It forced Harry Usher to give Memphis home-field advantage in the first round, since the Showboats had been among the league's attendance leaders once again.

Indeed, like the World Football League's Memphis Southmen before them, the Showboats appeared to be on more solid footing than the league as a whole.

| 1985 || 13 || 4 || 1 || 1st WC || Won Quarterfinal ( Tampa Bay ) Won Semifinal ( Memphis ) Lost USFL Championship ( Baltimore )

In 1995, Anderson came out of retirement to play in the CFL for the expansion Memphis Mad Dogs where he joined a man who coached against him in the USFL, Pepper Rodgers.

I leave it to the statisticians to say what they were, but I noticed several a few years ago, during an automobile ride from Memphis to Hattiesburg.

Similarly, further desegregation may come from suits pending in three Tennessee cities, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Memphis.

Category: People from Memphis, Tennessee

The area around present-day Cairo, especially Memphis, had long been a focal point of Ancient Egypt due to its strategic location just upstream from the Nile Delta.

According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8: 42 p. m., workers in the Bojangles ' restaurant about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed " mentally disoriented " inside the ladies ' room of the restaurant.

Vicki Hutcheson, a new resident of West Memphis, would play an important role in the investigation, though she would later recant her testimony, stating her statements were fabricated due in part to coercion from police.

On May 6, 1993 ( the day the murder victims were found ), Hutcheson took a polygraph exam by Detective Don Bray at the Marion Police Department to determine if she had stolen money from her West Memphis employer.

* Archive of West Memphis Three reports from Memphis Commercial Appeal

There is reference on a Greek papyrus from 163 BCE to the procedure being conducted on girls in Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital, and Strabo ( c. 64 BCE – c. 23 CE ), the Greek geographer, reported it when he visited Egypt in 25 BCE.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Memphis – Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.

In the late 19th century, they moved from Memphis, Tennessee to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The classic Kansas City-style barbecue was an inner-city phenomenon that evolved from the pit of Henry Perry from the Memphis, Tennessee, area in the early 20th century and blossomed in the 18th and Vine neighborhood.

Other sites from the defunct Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts chain in Chattanooga, Memphis and Dallas have simply been demolished.

* The 32-story Pyramid Arena in Memphis, Tennessee ( a city named after the ancient Egyptian capital whose name itself was derived from the name of one of its pyramids ).

* Memphis, the state's largest city, with 42 % of the voters, but located far from the other cities

* A lodge called Mystica Aeterna within the Masonic Order of Memphis and Mizraim, which Steiner led from 1906 until around 1914.

His parents were both from Jewish families in Leipzig ( the myth of his American birth in Memphis, Tennessee was necessary for him to obtain a visa in Paris ).

A & M Records released Crow's seventh studio album, 100 Miles from Memphis, on July 20, 2010.

" 100 Miles from Memphis ( released July 20 on A & M Records ), the distance from her hometown to the music mecca, is an ode to her formative memories of music-and one that the label hopes can inspire young music fans to investigate the landscape beyond processed pop and Auto-Tune.

* 100 Miles from Memphis ( 2010 )

Major General John A. McClernand was authorized to raise an army in his home state of Illinois for the purpose of taking Vicksburg ; Grant was very frustrated at the lack of direction he was receiving to move forward from his station in Memphis, and more aggravated to learn of this apparent effort to brush him aside.