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Orange County Ramblers Continental Football League

Orange County Ramblers

The Orange County Ramblers were a superb minor league football team that enjoyed a brief two-year existence in the late 1960’s. Under Head Coach Homer Beatty, the Ramblers assembled a 21-3 record over two regular seasons in the Continental Football League. The CoFL (1965-1969) existed one rung beneath the NFL and AFL and lived up to its ambitious name, with franchises stretched across the United States and Canada. Only one minor league squad in North American could lick the Ramblers – the Orlando Panthers, who defeated the Californians in the Continental League championship game in both 1967 and 1968.

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Steve Moyers of the California Surf on the cover of a 1980-81 Kick Indoor soccer program from the North American Soccer League

California Surf

The Anaheim-based Surf were part of the Southern California soccer boom of the late 1970’s that saw six different NASL and ASL clubs active in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties in 1978. The Surf were the weakest of the region’s three NASL franchises, overshadowed by the glamour of the Los Angeles Aztecs and the on-field success of the San Diego Sockers. The Surf disbanded after four season in late 1981.

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Southern California Sun World Football League

Southern California Sun

The Southern California Sun was an Anaheim-based franchise in the World Football League of the 1970’s. The Sun were known for their psychedelic (by the prevailing standards of pro football) magenta and orange uniforms and for signing top-flight USC stars Anthony Davis and Pat Haden.

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