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Classic Team Logo of The Day

14 Oct

Here is another logo of a team from the old World Football League, the Birmingham Americans. They were the league’s most successful franchise, winning all 13 of their home games in the league’s two year existence, and winning the 1974 “World Bowl”, the WFL’s championship game. It turned out to be the only title game for the league, as it folded before the ’75 season was completed. The Americans drew well at the box office, but ran into money troubles by signing NFL players to “future” contracts that included huge bonuses. Some of the players paid bonuses who, of course, never played for the team were Ken Stabler, Jethro Pugh, Rayfield Wright, Ron Jessie and L.C. Greenwood. After the team’s World Bowl victory, Jefferson County Deputy Sheriffs came into the locker room and seized the players’ uniforms and equipment due to the massive debts owed by the team’s ownership.

 

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