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Then, at a press conference in San Diego during Super Bowl XXXII weekend, the league announced it too would be changing: the league would be rebranded as NFL Europe. Also, the Scottish Claymores would divide their schedule between Edinburgh and Glasgow. The London Monarchs would become the England Monarchs, and play their home games in London, Birmingham and Bristol. Radical changes were made to the two British teams. The league consisted of the three existing European teams from the original format as well as three new teams in Amsterdam, Düsseldorf (who would compete as Rhein) and Edinburgh (who would compete as Scotland).īy the end of the 1997 season, there were growing concerns that their markets, except Germany, were not living up to their potential. San Antonio folded prior to the season but the Sacramento Gold Miners did play in the CFL for three years, starting the CFL USA initiative created in the wake of the WLAF's suspension.Īfter revamping itself into an exclusively European circuit, the WLAF re-launched in 1995. The Sacramento and San Antonio franchises left the WLAF and were set to join the Canadian Football League in 1993.
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However, the National Football League still liked the idea of a spring developmental league-and they needed another pro Football league to help their cause in the antitrust and free agency lawsuit with the National Football League Players' Association. Despite this, the European fans remained loyal, but operations of the WLAF were suspended after the 1992 season as the league lost money and the involved NFL owners were not willing to invest more. In 1992, fortunes changed and the European teams all had losing seasons. The Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks even lost all 10 games as well as their franchise, which was moved to Ohio for 1992. This might also have been caused by the surprising domination of the three Europe-based teams in 1991, which had a combined 24-6 record, while no North American team managed to be better than 5-5. The original WLAF was less than popular in the United States. The first two World Bowl games were held at predetermined locations much like the modern Super Bowl. The two teams emerging from the World League of American Football semifinal playoffs met at the end of the season in the World Bowl.
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The playoff format consisted of four teams: the three divisional champions, plus a wild card with the best overall non-division winning record.
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New ideas were successfully tested, like using the two-point conversion rule also on the professional field before adopting it in the NFL in 1994.
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Rules unique to WLAF included assigning increasing point value to field goals based on distance, and a requirement that at least one player of non-US nationality participate in at least every other series of downs. The WLAF played two seasons with 10 teams in the spring of 19, with the World Bowl as championship games. This came after the NFL had played popular American Bowls in London's Wembley Stadium and elsewhere since 1986. The World League of American Football (WLAF) was founded in 1990 with support from the National Football League to play professional American football in North America, Europe and later possibly Asia.