re: “Other” Pro Leagues in America

Posted by The Boat

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 12:59 pm to Pedro

You apply for the geography position baw?

Posted by I Bleed Garnet

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 1:16 pm to McCaigBro69

quote:
Waco Wizards TYFYS

That some kind of Cult?

Posted by BayouBengal

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 1:27 pm to I Bleed Garnet

The AAFC is usually glossed over, it's where the 49ers and the Browns came from. While there was a team by the name of the Baltimore Colts that joined from the AAFC it's seperate from the current incranation of the Colts.

Posted by McCaigBro69

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 1:43 pm to I Bleed Garnet

Local hockey team baw.

Games were lit.

frick the Austin Ice Bats, Shreveport-Bossier Mudbugs and Monroe Moccasins.

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Posted by tccdc

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 1:45 pm to BayouBengal

Want to go old school...

Pacific League - before MLB went West in the 50s, it was a top tier league that showed baseball would be and could be successful

North American Soccer League - used to be pretty damn big in the 70s...

Posted by AllDayEveryDay

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 1:46 pm to McCaigBro69

I watched the mud bugs play the ice rays in corpus a couple years ago

it was a pretty good match!

Posted by Pedro

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 3:04 pm to The Boat

Nah i had applied for the Track/XC assistant. I don't want nothing to do with filling cheno's shoes.

Posted by I Bleed Garnet

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 3:07 pm to McCaigBro69

quote:
Local hockey team baw.

Games were lit.

WE had the Columbia Inferno in College
But I think that was some minor league shite.

Posted by BRich

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 4:29 pm to McCaigBro69

quote:
Local hockey team baw.

Yeah, for some reason in the 90s there was an absolute EXPLOSION in ice hockey.

First you had the IHL, which covered a lot of the big cities outside of the NHL. Basically it was AAA level hockey. Over time they had the Atlanta Knights, Denver Grizzlies, Salt Lake City Golden Eagles, Houston Aeros, Orlando Solar Bears, Cleveland Lumberjacks, Phoenix Roadrunners, San Diego Gulls, Kansas City Blades, Detrot Vipers, Chicago Wolves, Milwaukee Admirals, Minnesota Moose, Indianapolis Ice, and Cincinnati Cyclones. For various reasons that league went kaput by 2001.

Then you had the explosion of the AA hockey leagues, such as the ECHL. Not sure why; I think it was because you had a lot of arenas/coliseums in medium-sized cities that needed dates to fill, and it was a fun way to spend a winter's evening. At one time you had the ECHL with an I-10 corridor going from the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks in the east to the Louisiana (Lafayette) Ice Gators in the west, with the Pensacola Ice Pilots, Mobile Mysticks, Mississippi (Biloxi) Sea Wolves, New Orleans Brass and Baton Rouge Kingfish in between. They also had the Birmingham Bulls and Jackson (MS) Bandits.

Other AA leagues included the WPHL that McHaig listed a bunch of teams, and the Central Hockey League.

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Posted by Winston Cup

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 4:39 pm to S

RGV Toros gfy

Posted by Winston Cup

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 4:39 pm to McCaigBro69

quote:
frick the Austin Ice Bats

Catch this smoke bitch

Posted by Donkus

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 5:09 pm to McCaigBro69

Mudbugs GOAT Louisiana hockey. WPHL, CHL, and NAHL Championships.

Posted by Zappas Stache

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 6:18 pm to Pedro

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It'd be cool if they did like an NBA all-star game type deal where 4 athletes (1 sprinter, 1 distance runner, 1 thrower, and 1 jumper) drafted teams and held a scored meet for like charity or something.

Track & Field is such an individual sport you would need the big names to compete in order to sell tickets.

Posted by coopsdad

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 7:18 pm to Zappas Stache

Lingerie Football League

Posted by Seldom Seen

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 7:23 pm to KamaCausey_LSU

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Major League Rugby (MLR)

I really hope this succeeds cause Rugby is my favorite sport and I get why they named it that, MLB, MLS. MLR makes sense but League still sounds funny in association with Rugby Union.

Posted by LSUMJ

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 7:51 pm to I Bleed Garnet

The key to having a successful secondary football league appears to be not having a team in Birmingham

Alliance- Birmingham Iron
Usfl- Birmingham stallions
WFL- Birmingham americans
Xfl- Birmingham thunderbolts

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Posted by I Bleed Garnet

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Posted on 2/10/20 at 7:52 pm to LSUMJ

Yea Birmingham sucks