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Nfl football teams official sites of all 32 nfl teams. But this prerelocation phase is by no means a prologue. The cfl is the highest level of competition in canadian football. But the owner barron hilton shipped the team to san diego after one year. The galaxy have five mls championships, more than any other mls team as of 2019.
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Founded in 1888 as the football league, the league is the oldest such competition in world football. Remember the afl features an unprecedented seasonbyseason, team by team history of the league that lasted from 1960 to 1969. The english football league efl is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from england and wales. Our football history book practically puts you on the 50yard line as it celebrates your team s legacy and lets you relive its most newsworthy events through the perspective of the new york times. Simply choose, from the extensive dropdown menu, the team to suit your lucky football obsessed recipient. Welcome to, a website about football history including competitions, teams and players. Moore 426 gordon wood 394 alltime highest attendance free uil state championship and playoffs past champions by year free. According to historian michael mccambridge in his 2005 book americas. Perhaps no team in history ever had a more spectacular debut than did the minnesota vikings in their first game ever on september 17, 1961. Relegations the three teams placed at the bottom of the table places 1820 will be relegated to efl championship, the second level. This article is a timeline of the national football league nfl. Writing book on states football history a labor of love. In most of the cities of maharashtra cricket is more popular than football but in kolhapur wrestling, football and cricket are equally popular.