Does anybody here remember the World Football League of the 1970s? I believe that that was started by the same people (Gary Davidson, et al) who helped to create the American Basketball Association and the World Hockey Association.
I read a few stories about that league, like the wide receiver who apparently got away for a while with taping his hands and putting the edges of thumb tacks in the tape so he’d be able to make all sorts of crazy, otherwise impossible catches. And also that the league tried to put a team in Canada (the Toronto Northmen), but Marc Lalonde, minister of whatever in the then Pierre Trudeau government, put a stop to that as having an American football team in Toronto was seen as a threat to the CFL (team became the Memphis Southmen).
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I do remember the NFL world football league. Barcelona Dragons?