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.

The WFL also arguably had an impact on locations of other professional football teams: from the NFL, Hawaii hosted the Pro Bowl from 1980 through 2009, Jacksonville got the Jacksonville Jaguars in 1995, Charlotte received the Carolina Panthers in the same year, and Houston's expansion franchise, the Texans, revived the name of the WFL team in 2002.

* 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 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.

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.

All but Phoenix and Mexico City would eventually get a new NFL or WFL franchise by the end of the decade ; Phoenix would have to wait for a USFL team to arrive in 1983, while Mexico City still has no professional American football team ( though it has hosted several neutral-site NFL games ).

However, several former Blazers, including Pardee, wanted nothing more to do with the WFL, forcing the league to restock the team with an expansion draft.

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.

The stadium has been home to several professional football teams, including the San Antonio Wings of the WFL in 1975, the San Antonio Gunslingers of the USFL from 1984 – 1985, the San Antonio Riders of the WLAF in 1991, and the San Antonio Matadors of the Spring Football League in 2000.

The group's radicalism caused some members to leave ; when the Pankhursts disrupted a public meeting organised by Lydia Becker in 1892, both Blatch and Elmy resigned from the 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 " Papergate " scandal, as it was dubbed by the press, made the Bell and the WFL look foolish, and proved to be a humiliation from which neither recovered.

Another team, the Chicago Winds, replaced the Fire in 1975 WFL play, though the new team was evicted from the second WFL after just five games.

" The Winds played at Soldier Field and was assigned to the WFL's Western Division for 1975 ( the WFL having shrunk from 12 teams to 11, and from three divisions to two ).

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

The WFL owners instead voted 10-1 to expel Chicago from the league, with only the Winds themselves voting to continue.

You can open and close files to check their attributes for example ; however, you cannot read or change their contents in WFL – that you do in a general purpose language, and invoke it as a task from WFL.

He played briefly with The Hawaiians of the WFL in 1974, and became an assistant coach during the 1974 WFL season when the team brought New York Giants quarterback Randy Johnson in from the NFL.

Two distinctive tracks from this era were the Orb's " Little Fluffy Clouds " ( with a distinctive vocal sample from Ricky Lee Jones ) and the Happy Mondays ' " Wrote for Luck " (" WFL ") which was transformed into a dance hit by Paul Oakenfold.

Early members of the WFL included Josephine Butler, leader of the Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts ; the Pankhursts ' friend Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy ; and Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch, daughter of US suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Two WFL alumni made it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Larry Csonka and Paul Warfield ( although both were already established stars in the NFL before joining the WFL.

The American Football Association was conceived as a successor to the WFL, and in some newspapers was even referred to as the " New WFL.

* Philadelphia Bell WFL Football Page

* Women's Football League ( WFL ) ( Southern U. S., moribund )

* Charlotte Hornets ( WFL ), a defunct World Football League team ( 1974 – 1975 )

* the World Football League ( WFL, 1974-1975 );

Other leagues such as the XFL, WFL and the United States Football League ( USFL ) have never been a serious challenge to the NFL, folding after one, two and three seasons, respectively.

They were members of the four-team Central Division of the World Football League ( WFL ).

They were members of the five-team Eastern Division of the World Football League ( WFL ).

* The Philadelphia Bell WFL Football Page

*" Head coach WFL ", Football Digest, August 1974 issue

* Charlotte Hornets ( WFL ), a team in World Football League that started the 1974 season as the " New York Stars " before relocating mid-season

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.

In 1975, Hill signed with the Hawaiians in the World Football League ( WFL ).