Continental Football League

The Continental Football League was a professional football league which existed from 1965 to 1969. It was an attempt to start a third pro football league in the United States alongside the National Football League and the American Football League. The CFL's teams came mostly from a merger of the remains of two early 1960s minor football leagues, the Atlantic Coast Football League and the United Football League. The Continental Football League's teams mainly drew from smaller cities not represented by NFL or AFL teams, such as Richmond, Virginia, Wheeling, West Virginia, Eugene, Oregon, Akron, Ohio, and Las Vegas, Nevada, although there were also teams from big cities like Chicago and Brooklyn. A further merger occurred when the Texas Professional Football League merged into the CFL for the 1969 season, resulting in the CFL adding several teams from Texas and having four divisions - East, Central, Pacific, and Texas, for its 1969 season. The CFL was unable to keep public interest in the league going, many upstart teams folded in mid-season over the league's five years due to financial losses, and the CFL itself called it quits after the 1969 season. 1969 was also the year the American Football League merged into the National Football League, leaving the United States with one major pro football league at the start of the 1970s.

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• CFL teams and logos
• Footballresearch.com