There also was the World Football League, an ill-fated, one-hit wonder that played in the fall of 1974, and the World League of American Football, which morphed into NFL Europe before fading away completely when the sport’s behemoth decided to stage its own regular-season games across the pond on a recurring basis.
But the leagues and the jobs and the supposed existential threat to the CFL never amounts to much and rarely lasts for more than a season or two. Each league had eight teams in 2023, offering about 800 jobs to Americans between February, when the XFL held camp, to July 1, when the USFL played its championship game. A merged entity is more likely to launch with perhaps a dozen teams, so whatever threat to CFL sovereignty was posed by a combined 16 teams will likely be reduced by a significant percentage.Article content
“The CFL is such a unique game and because it does not rely totally on imports, there is a pool of players that totally belong to the CFL,” he said then. “And there are quarterbacks, for example, that are unique to the CFL, of which there are many coming out of school. There aren’t enough spots in our league for that kind of quarterback.
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