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Topic: 1986 CFL season

	CFL
		According to the CFL, the original Alouettes, the Concordes and the "new" Alouettes are considered the same franchise, despite the name change and a nine-year absence of a team in Montreal from 1987 until 1995.
		According to contributor Richard Salzer, the CFL began in 1909 when its, "Ninth governour-general, Albert George Earl Grey, first donated his trophy for the winner of the Dominion Rugby-Football Champion of Canada." In 1909 their were two governing bodies of Pro, University and Amateur football in Canada.
		The CFL was even rumored to have courted Vince McMahon to purchase the ailing Toronto franchise to help give the league a shot in the arm.
	www.misterhabs.com /CFL.htm (2166 words)

	CFL.ca :: Official site of the Canadian Football League
		The CFL moved to adopt overtime in the Regular Season which consisted of two five-minute halves (no-sudden death) and would be implemented in 1986.
		The CFL experimented with the TV flout policy as four games (two in Hamilton and two in Toronto) are televised in the Hamilton-Toronto market.
		The Montreal Alouettes folded on June 24; the schedule was revised and the Divisions realigned with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers moving to the Eastern Division.
	www.cfl.ca /view.php?module=page&id=33&type=print (778 words)

	Player - Michael Strahan - Giants.com
		Increased his season sack total to 11.5, the sixth time in his career has been in double digits and increased his career sack total against Philadelphia to 20.5, his highest total against any opponent.
		Earned his 11th sack of the season when he knocked the ball out of Steve McNair’s hand to force a fumble that was recovered by Dhani Jones early in the 1st quarterHad 8 tackles (6 solo), 2 sacks and a forced fumble at Houston (11/24).
		The 2 sacks of David Carr were his 9th and 10th in the season, marking the 4th time in his career he reached double digitsStarted at right defensive end but moved to his normal position at left defensive end after the 1st series vs. Washington (11/17).
	www.giants.com /team/player.asp?player_id=54 (2151 words)

	CFL.ca Network :: Official site of the Canadian Football League
		But early and abruptly in the 1986 season, Watts was released by the Rough Riders and picked up by the Toronto Argonauts.
		Watts was called upon to salvage the Argonauts' season and he responded with his most accurate passing campaign, throwing 182 passes for a 59.3% completion rate.
		In this, his final season, Watts' toughness was underscored as he endured 44 of a still-standing record 103 Toronto sacks given up in 1986.
	www.cfl.ca /index.php?module=page&id=64 (2142 words)

	Player Bio: Doug Sams :: Football
		Doug Sams, a veteran coach of 30 seasons on the college and professional levels, spent the 2006 campaign as the offensive line coach for tackles and tight ends at Stanford.
		He was the head coach for one season (1988) at Urbana, an NAIA school in Ohio.
		Sams spent two years in the CFL (1986-87) as the defensive line and special teams coach in 1987 for the Edmonton Eskimos, and the offensive line coach for the Montreal Alouettes in 1986.
	gostanford.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/mtt/sams_doug00.html (316 words)

	1987 CFL season at AllExperts
		The 1987 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 34th season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 30th Canadian Football League season.
		The CFL experimented with their flout policy by fling out four televised games in both, Hamilton and Toronto (two in Hamilton and two in Toronto).
		With the team's demise the CFL revised the season schedule and moved the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to the East Division.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1987_cfl_season.htm (401 words)

	Lionbackers.com - The BC Lions Fan Den
		During the 1975 season Ackles took over as General Manager of the team over the next eleven years with the help of a strong Board of Directors, he turned the team around on the field and off.
		He moved to the B.C. Lions in the 1984 season and became the League sack leader with an average of 26.5 sacks in a single season which is still an all-time CFL record today.
		James Parker finished his CFL career as a member of the Toronto Argonauts where he played the 1990 season and one game in the 1991 season.
	www.lionbackers.com /history/cfl-hall.html (902 words)

	Canadian Football League information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In 1986 the Concordes were renamed the Alouettes to attract more fan support, but the team folded the next year.
		The 1995 season saw the loss of the Posse and the move of the Gold Miners to San Antonio, while the Birmingham Barracudas and Memphis Mad Dogs were added.
		In Southern Ontario, the CFL is now recovering from the bankruptcy that plagued the Toronto and Hamilton teams in the 2003 season.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Canadian_Football_League (2028 words)

	Patriots Sign Doug Flutie
		Flutie, 42, is entering his 12th NFL season and his 21st season in professional football.
		He spent the 1985 season on the Rams’ developmental squad and played in 15 games in the USFL before his NFL rights were traded from Los Angeles to Chicago midway through the 1986 season.
		In the two seasons in which he was Buffalo’s primary starter (1998-99), he led the Bills to the playoffs twice.
	www.patriots.com /news/index.cfm?ac=latestnewsdetail&pid=11542&pcid=47 (764 words)

	Head Coach Doug Martin - Kent State University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Last season, Martin’s spread passing attack posted the third-highest yardage total in school history while the team’s 15 touchdown passes were the sixth most in a single year at Kent State.
		In its first season under Martin’s system, Kent State averaged 26.8 points per game, the second-highest in the last 30 years, and scored 30-or-more points in each of the final six games and did so in a school-record eight games overall.
		He was at ECU for all of Steve Logan’s tenure there, serving as the tight ends coach and special teams coordinator for two seasons (1992-93), then another two years as wide receivers coach (1994-95) before being promoted to offensive coordinator in 1996.
	www.kentstatesports.com /ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=57780&SPID=4445&DB_OEM_ID=11400&ATCLID=576099&Q_SEASON=2006 (1108 words)

	Quarterback Doug Flutie to Return to Pats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		He returned to the NFL for three seasons with the Buffalo Bills and then went to San Diego, where he started 16 games in his first year and six in his next three.
		Last season, he was 20-of-38 for 276 yards and a touchdown with the Chargers.
		In the CFL, he threw for 41,355 yards and 270 touchdowns and ran for another 4,660 yards and 67 touchdowns.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/04/29/sports/s143606D06.DTL&type=printable (552 words)

	1985 CFL season at AllExperts
		The 1985 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 32nd season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 28th Canadian Football League season.
		The CFL adopted a regular season overtime format that will consist of two-minute halves (no sudden death), which will be implemented for the 1986 season.
		In addition, the CFL changed the playoff overtime format from two ten-minute halves (with no sudden death) to two five-minute halves (no sudden death).
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/1985_cfl_season.htm (341 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The 1986 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 33rd season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 29th Canadian Football League season.
		The playoff structure was revised to allow a fourth place team from one of the divisions to be qualified for the playoffs, as long as that fourth place team has earned more points in the regular season standings than the third place team from the other division.
		The CFL also amended the quota to the teams 35-man roster to include 13 imports, 19 non-imports and 3 quarterbacks.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=1986_CFL_season (386 words)

	Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
		In 1986, when Marv Levy was chosen to direct the fortunes of the Buffalo Bills, he brought with him more than 30 years of coaching experience.
		Midway through the 1986 season, following a two-year hiatus from coaching and one season as the head coach of the Chicago Blitz of the United States Football League, Levy returned to the NFL as head coach of the Bills.
		In 1987, his first full season with the Bills, the team returned to respectability with a 7-8 record and were in the playoff hunt throughout most of the season.
	www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=128 (449 words)

	USFL - United States Football League
		This is a "preview" of the 1986 United States Football League season that would have happened had the league noted folded in late summer of 1986.
		Offense: QB Ed Luther would have been in his first season in the "Run ‘N’ Shoot," and, with the exception of Leonard Harris, he wouldn’t have had many weapons to work with.
		Special teams: K Brian Franco returned for a third season, and might have had to play a dual role and be the Bulls’ punter, something he did part-time in 1984.
	www.oursportscentral.com /usfl/1986prev2.php (2604 words)

	The official site of the Toronto Argonauts as powered by SLAM! Sports
		Parker joined the CFL with the Edmonton Eskimos in 1980 as a defensive end and went straight to the Grey Cup his first season.
		He remained with the Eskimos until the 1984 season when he moved to the B.C. Lions and in that same year became the League leader with an average of 26.5 sacks in a single season which is still an all-time record in the CFL today.
		Parker finished his CFL career as a member of the Toronto Argonauts where he played the 1990 season and one game in the 1991 season.
	www.canoe.ca /Argos/History/HallOfFame/James_Parker.html (232 words)

	Doug Flutie Capitol City Speakers Bureau
		He remains the all-time BC leader in career yards, yards in one season, touchdowns in one season, yards in one game and touchdowns in one game - and ranks in the top three in virtually every statistically important passing category in BC history.
		After the 1989 season came to a close, Flutie went north of the border to the Canadian Football League.
		Flutie's CFL success, coupled with the revoking of the "marquee player" exemption in the Canadian Football League, resulted in him leaving the CFL to return to the National Football League in 1998.
	www.capcityspeakers.com /speakers/Flutie.htm (748 words)

	Remember the USFL - 1986 Season and Beyond
		July 29, 1986: The jury concludes that the NFL is in violation of the Sherman Anti-trust Laws by conspiring to monopolize professional football, and that they did illegally damage the USFL.
		August 1st, 1986: The USFL owners meet and vote to suspend the 1986 season.
		In his three USFL seasons he had given the league much of whatever credibility it had earned, rushing for 5,562 yards and 54 touchdowns.
	www.remembertheusfl.8m.com /1986.html (3002 words)

	News \| TimesDaily.com \| TimesDaily \| Florence, AL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		He is a former professional football coach, in the CFL as head coach of the Montreal Alouettes (1973–1977), and in the NFL as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs (1978–1982) and the Buffalo Bills (1986–1997).
		Midway through the 1986 season, following a two-year hiatus from coaching and one season as the head coach of the Chicago Blitz of the United States Football League, Levy returned to the NFL as head coach of the Buffalo Bills.
		In 1987, his first full season with the Bills, the team returned to respectability with a 7–8 record and were in the playoff hunt throughout most of the season.
	www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Marv_Levy (1123 words)

	My Unofficial Paul Osbaldiston Tribute
		This year he was named the CFL All-Canadian kicker for the 2nd time, and the East Division All Star kicker for the 6th time.
		He was 3rd in the CFL with a 43.8 yard average on 123 punts.
		Had 3 field goals for 3 attempts, 4 converts, a single on a season long of 81 yards kickoff, 5 punts for a 44.4-yard average and 6 kickoffs for a 70-yard average September 16th against the Calgary Stampeders.
	www.angelfire.com /pa2/osbaldiston/index.html (1635 words)

	BALTIMORE STALLIONS WIN GREY CUP ! ! !
		The team was nicknamed "Stallions" before this season and rolled to the title, going 15-3 in the regular season and closing it out with playoff wins over Winnipeg and San Antonio.
		Huerta, who kicked a CFL playoff record seven field goals last week in Baltimore's 21-11 win over San Antonio in the Southern Division final, kicked field goals of 45 and 53 yards before the half as Baltimore held a 23-13 lead at the intermission.
		The Stallions were 15-3 in the regular season and defeated Winnipeg and San Antonio in the playoffs.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /jstass/Stallions/greycup.html (4573 words)

	Millsaps College :: Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		McNair had a career season in 2001, setting career highs with 3,271 yards, 63 touchdowns, 434 attempts, 282 completions, 65.0 completion percentage and a 118.16 quarterback rating.
		McNair is a seasoned AFL veteran (nine seasons in the league; Albany 1993-95; Florida 1996-00 and Carolina 2000-01).
		He holds almost all of Florida's passing records, including passing yards in a season (3,269 in 1999), passing TDs in a season (60, in 1998), passing TDs in a game (8, done four times) and passing yards in a game (362, in 2000).
	www.millsaps.edu /athletic/football/FredMcNairBio.shtml (324 words)

	Warren Moon profile, statistics and more
		Led the Oilers to their first winning season and playoff berth since 1980 and their first playoff win since 1979.
		Finished the season with 5,000 yards and 36 TDs for the Grey Cup Champion Eskimos.
		Signed by the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL as a free agent in March...
	espn.go.com /nfl/profiles/notes/0054.html (637 words)

	CFL.ca Network :: Official site of the Canadian Football League
		For the 2006 CFL season, RDS returns as the exclusive French language broadcaster for the Montreal Alouettes 18-game regular season schedule and will continue into the post-season with coverage of all CFL playoff games and the 94th Grey Cup.
		An average of 200,000 viewers* tuned in RDS for the 2005 CFL season with 796,000 watching the live broadcast of the Edmonton and Montreal Grey Cup match-up in Vancouver.
		CFL fans across North America will be able to listen to live CFL game action on SIRIUS Satellite Radio, the country’s leading satellite radio provider with the best and most exclusive sports programming available.
	www.cfl.ca /index.php?module=page&id=16 (668 words)

	Canadian Football League
		As best I can tell from the CFL's web site, it appears that the original Alouettes, the Concordes, and the "new" Alouettes are considered to be one franchise for historical purposes, despite the name changes and the nine-year absence of a team in Montreal from 1987 through 1995.
		The team name was changed back to Alouettes for the 1986 season, but the team folded again just before the 1987 season was to begin.
		One other design not yet shown here was used apparently during the 1974 season only; it featured a logo very similar to, or perhaps identical to, that shown on the "1975 - 1981" helmet shown above, but with the logo worn at the front of the helmet rather than on the sides.
	www.nationalchamps.net /Helmet_Project/cfl.htm (1245 words)

	USATODAY.com - Flutie's family unable to sway retirement decision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		And as last season progressed as a seldom-seen backup to Tom Brady on the New England Patriots, when aching knees gave him "good weeks and bad weeks," Flutie realized it probably was time to end a 21-year professional career.
		The 5-10 playmaker had his most productive NFL seasons after returning in 1998, when he signed with the Buffalo Bills and wound up in the Pro Bowl — a slap at critics who believed he was too small for the NFL.
		His final NFL play, in last season's regular-season finale against the Miami Dolphins, was the first successful drop kick since 1941.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/patriots/2006-05-15-flutie-retirement_x.htm (860 words)

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