The Dallas Cowboys also took roster hits when WFL teams in Hawaii and Houston signed running back Calvin Hill and quarterback Craig Morton respectively.

There is also a Major League Soccer team called the Chicago Fire, and there are / were also NBA teams called the Memphis Grizzlies ( 2001 – present ) and Charlotte Hornets ( 1988 – 2002 ) ( although the nickname " Hornets " for minor league baseball teams in Charlotte long precedes the WFL entry, and the " Grizzlies " name for the Memphis NBA team was selected when the franchise was still in Vancouver ).

He was also the general manager of the WFL Portland Storm in 1974.

It also hosted the Florida – Georgia game, an annual college football rivalry game between the University of Florida and the University of Georgia, and was home to several professional sports teams, including the Jacksonville Sharks of the World Football League ( WFL ), the Jacksonville Tea Men soccer team, and the Jacksonville Bulls of the United States Football League.

WFL also has an instruction block command which is used to give operators instructions needed to run the current job.

Over the years, Sheppard also served as announcer for multiple other teams and venues, among them Adelphi College ( predecessor of Adelphi University ); the AFL New York Titans ( later the Jets ) and the International Soccer League, both at the Polo Grounds ; the WFL New York Stars at Downing Stadium on Randall's Island ; the All-America Football Conference's New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium ; the NASL New York Cosmos at Yankee Stadium, Downing Stadium, and Giants Stadium ; Army Black Knights football games at Michie Stadium and Giants Stadium ; and multiple Army-Navy games at the Polo Grounds, Giants Stadium, and Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.

With the uncertain labor situation, the WFL had the opportunity to provide players with a better deal than the NFL would give them, along with the promise of employment.

By early June 1974, the WFL claimed they had some 60 NFL players under contract.

The ACFL had survived a suspension of operations in 1972 to return to play in 1973, only to have the WFL lure away most of the ACFL's and SFL's players with the prospect of playing in a " major " league.

Perhaps one of the most bizarre incidents for the WFL in 1974 involved former Raiders defensive end John Matuszak, who had left the NFL's Houston Oilers to play for the WFL's Houston Texans.

* Baltimore had an NFL team ( the Colts ) at the time of the WFL, but after their departure the Stars of the USFL and the Stallions of the CFL played in the city.

" Many of the AFA teams revived, with slight alterations, the names of WFL teams that had resided in respective cities, and several of the AFA's key personnel had previously served in similar capacities with WFL teams.

The WFL had several important rules differences from the National Football League of that era, and many were eventually adopted by the older league:

The Barracudas hired an experienced head coach in Jack Pardee, who had coached at the college level with the University of Houston and at the professional level with the WFL, USFL, and NFL.

This was one of two home games relocated out of Orlando as part of a legal settlement between the WFL and Blazers ownership to sell the financially troubled team, pay off debts, and get checks to players who had not been paid since mid-September.

The Vulcans replaced the Birmingham Americans who had held the WFL franchise for Birmingham in 1974, winning World Bowl I in December 1974 before suffering financial collapse.

Over its 50 year history it has had many firsts in a commercial implementation, including virtual memory, symmetric multiprocessing, and a high-level job control language ( WFL ).

Reports had him retiring, being traded to another NFL team — or jumping to the WFL, perhaps as a player / coach / co-owner.

A team folding in mid-season was not unusual for the WFL ( the Jacksonville Sharks and Detroit Wheels had died 14 games into a 20-game regular season in 1974 ), so the league was prepared.

In order to keep the NFL out of Hawaii, the WFL had the Hawaiians play their games on Sundays, while the rest of the league played on Wednesday night.

Even with these missteps, the Hawaiians represented a serious attempt to form a viable professional football organization, one that at least had the potential for success had the WFL been better run.

The Storm was the last WFL team to be organized, and as a result had mostly rookies on their roster.

The WFL had an array of measuring instruments, a telemetry system and a 150 Watt, Lorenz 150 FK-type transmitter.

The inaugural meeting of the Women's Franchise League ( WFL ) was held on 25 July 1889, at the Pankhurst home in Russell Square.

The WFL reacted by ridiculing the " Spinster Suffrage party " and insisting that a wider assault on social inequity was required.

Several more NFL free agents, including Calvin Hill and Ted Kwalick, signed on with the struggling WFL.

The Southmen drew fairly well, at least by WFL standards, in part due to the presence on their roster of some well-known players recruited away from the NFL at considerable expense.

The Stars and Bell performed in front of the largest WFL crowd, with 64, 179 on hand.

San Antonio won the WFL Summer Title and finished with a 7-6 record ( winning all seven home games and losing all six road games ) before the league folded on October 22, 1975

However, after it emerged that Pease was under indictment regarding a Connecticut land deal, the WFL took over the franchise on September 22.

The franchise, according to the WFL, was operated on a " play now, pay later " basis.

After a mediocre 5-7 record and with the franchise almost out of money, the Steamer and the WFL sank permanently on October 22, 1975.

In World Bowl I, the only WFL World Bowl contested, the Birmingham Americans defeated the Florida Blazers 22-21 on December 5, 1974 at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama.

When Eddie Einhorn, head of the WFL's television partner, TVS Television Network, got word that the upstart league was going after Namath, he bluntly told league president Chris Hemmeter that the WFL was literally betting its existence on getting Namath.

( In a Sports Illustrated story on the death of the WFL, a Winds official referred to the investors as " Bob and Rich from California.

Developed soon after the B5000 in 1961, WFL is the ClearPath equivalent of the Job Control Language ( JCL ) on IBM mainframes and the shell scripts of Unix-like operating systems.

He played in the final game of the WFL for the Hawaiians, throwing the last pass in the league's history as the WFL folded three days later on October 22, 1975.

The WFL would broadcast weather readings every three hours during a two minute transmission on 3940 kHz.

Unlike most other WFL owners, he didn't have to pay a franchise fee because of his close ties to WFL founder and Commissioner Gary Davidson.

WFL programs are compiled to binary executables like any other MCP subject.

In other games, Shreveport defeating visiting San Antonio 41-31, Portland won at home against Jacksonville 30-13, and, in the last WFL game ever played, the Southern California Sun beat The Hawaiians, 26-7, in Honolulu.