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Re: A11FL (2015 version) ?
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 8:12 pm
by rockhawk
The quality of the video isn't great, but Steve Effler saved a small news clip from the '83 IFL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ44D6A0fEM
Re: A11FL (2015 version) ?
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:19 am
by Mark L. Ford
That's an interesting video on a tape that has somehow survived more than 30 years-- of course, all the formula is right there, get a well-known name (Coach Malavasi had been that back in the 80s), announce the cities and an opening date, and the gimmick that sets it apart. I love how Malavasi talks as if spring-summer football is a bold new idea. I remember now the league that single wing was talking about-- the UNGL. What an awful abbreviation, managing to convey the idea of ugly, unglued, bungle, etc. in a few letters. And when did "football" become the new "F-word"? That other one, the NBC/Ted Turner league had an interesting idea of major corporations owning the teams, and Federal Express had expressed an interest in having a Memphis franchise in this fly-by-night business. I think the New York Times wrote that the players' uniforms would be "festooned with logos" like NASCAR.