Alabama Hawks
Professional Football League of America (1967) Continental Football League (1968-1969) Born: 1967 Folded: Postseason 1969 First Game: Last Game: PFLA Championships: CoFL Championships: None Milton Frank Stadium Team
Professional Football League of America (1967) Continental Football League (1968-1969) Born: 1967 Folded: Postseason 1969 First Game: Last Game: PFLA Championships: CoFL Championships: None Milton Frank Stadium Team
The Joliet Explorers were a low-level minor league football team formed in 1964 as an expansion club in the United Football League. The franchise would play for three seasons, jumping to the Professional Football League of America in 1965 and 1966 after the demise of the UFL. The Chargers were champions of the PFLA in 1965. Future television and movie star John Amos (Good Times, Die Hard 2) played running back for the Explorers in 1964. The team changed its name to the Joliet Chargers in 1967 and folded at the end of that season.
The Omaha Mustangs were a minor league football outfit that played at Rosenblatt Stadium from 1964 thru the mid-1970’s. At their peak, the Mustangs competed in the Continental Football League in 1968 and 1969, a loop that had a nationwide footprint and could claim to be the third-best pro football league in the United States, behind the NFL and its rival, the American Football League.
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