Although Tasmanian AFL Bid has been ongoing, the AFL's focus has become gaining marketshare in lucrative and broadcasting rights in two populous Australian states, introducing clubs on the Gold Coast, Queensland ( Gold Coast Football Club ) and in Greater Western Sydney ( Greater Western Sydney Football Club ).

Today, the blue star has been extended to not only the Dallas Cowboys, but owner Jerry Jones ' AFL team, the Dallas Desperados that have a similar logo based on the Cowboys.

Essendon has won 16 VFL / AFL premierships which, along with Carlton, is the most of any club in the AFL.

The club has been the VFL / AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era.

The MCG, often referred to by locals as " The G ", has also hosted other major events, including International Rules between the Australian Football League ( AFL ) and Gaelic Athletic Association, international Rugby union, State of Origin series ( rugby league ), FIFA World Cup qualifiers and International Friendly matches, serves as the finish line for the Melbourne Marathon and also major rock concerts.

The NFL's Houston Texans revived the name of the WFL's franchise for that city ; " Texans " has also been used by an NFL Dallas team in 1952 – the remnants of which became the Baltimore / Indianapolis Colts, by an AFL Dallas team in the early 1960s – who became the Kansas City Chiefs, by an arena football team in Dallas in the early 1990s, and by a CFL San Antonio team for one year in the 1990s.

Australian Rules Football-Bundaberg has two current clubs playing in the AFL Wide Bay competition.

Carlton has had a long and successful history, and is one of the most successful clubs in the VFL / AFL.

Historically one of the most successful clubs in the league, Collingwood has won fifteen VFL / AFL premierships, the third-most of any team.

This jumper also has a collar, the only one in the AFL to do so.

After reaching and losing the 1982 Grand Final, it has been a rocky road for the Tigers who have struggled to come to grips with the rules and regulations of a modernized AFL, including the draft and salary cap.

McGuire has hosted the Nine Network's The AFL Footy Show, the Australian version of game shows Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

As a voluntary federation, the AFL – CIO has little authority over the affairs of its member unions except in extremely limited cases ( such as the ability to expel a member union for corruption ( Art.

Since its inception as the American Federation of Labor, the AFL – CIO has supported an image of the federation as the " House of Labor "— an all-inclusive, national federation of " all " labor unions.

8, the AFL – CIO has the authority to place conditions on the issuance of charters, and formally has endorsed the policy of merging small unions into larger ones.

And although the AFL – CIO constitution permits the federation to charter Directly Affiliated Local Unions, the AFL – CIO has largely refused to charter such unions since the 1970s.

In recent years the AFL – CIO has concentrated its political efforts on lobbying in Washington and the state capitals, and on " GOTV " ( get-out-the-vote ) campaigns and in major elections.

The AFL – CIO has three executive officers: president, secretary-treasurer and executive vice president.

It passes resolutions, directly oversees AFL – CIO's legislative program, and has other duties.

The AFL, currently with 18 member clubs, is the sport's elite competition and the most powerful body and continues to seek further opportunities to expand into new markets.

King and the AFL – CIO diverged further in 1967, when King expressed public opposition to the Vietnam War and connected it to the struggle of the working class in America.

The two federations fought it out for membership ; while both supported Roosevelt and the New Deal, the CIO was further to the left, while the AFL had close ties to the big city machines.

would provide further finance for the development of AFL football as a national code in Australia.

One is designed by architects AFL with a capacity of 60, 000, and the second is a more expensive futuristic design by Dallas based architects HKS, which would originally seat 60, 000 with the capacity for further expansion to 73, 000.

New owner of the Bears Reuben Pelerman would lose a further $ 10 million dollars between the 1990-1992 AFL seasons and the Bears would move permanently to The Gabba in 1993.

However, Ablett's performances throughout the year were further recognised when he was awarded the AFLPA Leigh Matthews Trophy and AFL Coaches ' Association ' Champion Player of the Year ' awards for the second consecutive season.

Ablett also won his third consecutive AFL Coaches ' Association ' Champion Player of the Year ' Award and was further acknowledged for his record-breaking season when awarded the 2009 Brownlow Medal.

While the initial complaint was dismissed, further investigation by the CBC and the Alberta Federation of Labour ( AFL ) claimed to have found contradictions between the grounds for the complaint's dismissal, and the laws regarding private interests influencing government.

The Cincinnati Bengals played the last two AFL seasons in the AFL West despite being further east than Houston, where the Houston Oilers played at the time and were members of the AFC East.

At the age of sixteen, he joined the AFL in order to further his life ; after finishing high school in 1978 through a programme at the Barclay Training Center, he received an assignment to the AFL's records department.

The Falcons joined the NFL in 1965 as an expansion team, after the NFL offered then-owner Rankin Smith a franchise to keep him from joining the rival American Football League ( AFL ).

In 1968, Walsh moved to the AFL expansion Cincinnati Bengals, joining the staff of legendary coach Paul Brown.

Oilman Clint Murchison Jr had been trying to get an NFL expansion team in Dallas ( also Lamar Hunt – who ended up with an AFL franchise ), but George Preston Marshall owner of the Washington Redskins had a monopoly in the south.

This includes the original eight AFL teams and the two AFL expansion teams, the Miami Dolphins and Cincinnati Bengals.

Iowa, Milwaukee, Tennessee Valley ( which changed its name to Alabama to reflect the state, rather than the region ), Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Bossier-Shreveport, and Spokane all seamlessly moved to the new AFL to join " old " AFL teams Arizona, Orlando, Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Cleveland, along with expansion teams in Dallas and Jacksonville, and the AIFA team in Utah which had originally been in the old AFL.

Albany will not play in 2010 while seeking an expansion into the " new " AFL in 2011, along with planned addition, Toledo.

By the 1890s Gompers was planning an international federation of labor, starting with the expansion of AFL affiliates in Canada, especially Ontario.

On Saturday, February 11, 2006, the Dragons won against the expansion team Utah Blaze 84-81 on the road and they made AFL history for the second-most points scored in one game with 165.

Negotiations with a Denver ownership group ( known not to be the Elway group ) are underway for a 2012 AFL expansion franchise in Denver, but it is unclear whether or not it will use the Crush branding or that of the Denver Dynamite, an earlier AFL team.

During a halftime interview at a Cowboys preseason game on August 12, 2000, Jerry Jones revealed to Babe Laufenberg that the AFL had granted him an expansion franchise to begin play in 2002.

Jones appointed Cowboys special teams coach Joe Avezzano as head coach, and on November 21, 2001 in the AFL expansion draft, they acquired their first player, lineman Aaron Hamilton.

For their first six years, the league had teams in markets not covered by either the Arena Football League or its developmental league, af2, however, that changed briefly with their expansion into AFL markets such as Atlanta, Denver, and Los Angeles, and af2 markets such as Fort Myers and Houston.

An AFL expansion team, the VooDoo played its inaugural game on the road against the Philadelphia Soul on February 8, 2004.

The AFL's leadership believed the expansion of the capitalist system was seen as the path to betterment of labor, an orientation making it possible for the AFL to present itself as what one historian has called " the conservative alternative to working class radicalism.

By the 1890s, Gompers was planning an international federation of labor, starting with the expansion of AFL affiliates in Canada, especially Ontario.

The friendly merger of the AFL and CIO marked an end not only to the acrimony and jurisdictional conflicts between the coalitions, it also signaled the end of the era of experimentation and expansion that began in the mid 1930s.

In 1966, the AFL expansion Miami Dolphins played their first ever regular season game in the stadium on September 2.

The league has subsequently re-entered former AFL markets and taken up the names of their markets ' former teams ; the Bossier City Battle Wings became the revived New Orleans VooDoo, the Alabama Vipers assumed the identity and history of the Georgia Force, the expansion Milwaukee Iron assumed the name and history of the Milwaukee Mustangs and the Philadelphia Soul franchise was revived for the 2011 Arena Football League season as well.

When the AFL reportedly set the expansion fee in the seven-figure range ( allegedly to purposefully discourage the WIFL teams from joining ), the three teams could not meet those demands and folded.

The AFL did add the Buffalo Destroyers as an expansion team in 1999.