If San Antonio, as expected, gets named Sunday as the 2023 home of an XFL franchise, that rebooted spring endeavor will have quite a legacy to uphold, columnist mikefinger writes.
Express-News file photoIf San Antonio, as expected, gets named Sunday as the 2023 home of an XFL franchise, that rebooted spring endeavor will have quite a legacy to uphold. Since the Toros of the Continental Football League kicked off at Northeast Stadium in 1967, no fewer than a baker’s dozen of upstarts haveIf the yet-to-be-named new team is lucky, it will still be around next summer.
The Riders fought with San Antonio Independent School District over rent and beer sales at Alamo Stadium, and threatened to move games to Southwest Texas’ Bobcat Stadium. Gordon played both offense and defense, like many Arena linemen. And after he sacked a Dallas quarterback for a safety during a July 1992 game, he got up with two fewer teeth in his mouth.
Per Jeff Pearlman’s book, “Football For a Buck,” Fields followed Manges home after practice, and demanded payment with a baseball bat in hand.Manges went into the house, retrieved thousands of dollars in cash, and paid the man his back pay. Fields’ teammates, meanwhile, still are waiting for theirs.Warwick, who’d played 10 seasons in the NFL, came to San Antonio and hit Jacksonville running back Tommy Reamon so hard at the goal line that both players were knocked out cold.
Video of the play was viewed more than 3 million times on the AAF’s Twitter account. But when, less than two months later, the league shut down before the season ended.Tony Bryant, Saints .
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