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	Super Bowl XXXI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their quarterback Brett Favre won the NFL Most Valuable Player Award for the second straight season after throwing for an NFC record 39 touchdown passes during the regular season.
		To honor the recent death of former NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle who passed away on December 6, 1996, each player wore a special helmet decal with Rozelle's signature, "Pete," printed across the NFL logo.
		During the past Super Bowl games since the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger (Super Bowl V), the NFL logo was painted on the 50-yard line, except for Super Bowls XXV and XXIX.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXI (1782 words)

	NFL Franchise Origins
		Years given for league titles indicate seasons championships were won.
		Here is what the current 32 teams in the National Football League have to show for the years they have put in as members of the American Professional Football Association (APFA), the NFL, the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and the American Football League (AFL).
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0104402.html (82 words)

	Find Free Essays on stuff
		The formation of the AFL in 1987 eventually led to the Victorian Football Association renaming its competition the VFL in 1996, and in 1999 the Victorian Football Association changed its name to Football Victoria Ltd. Today Football Victoria Ltd operates the Victorian Football League (VFL).
		Over the years the composition of the league has continually changed with the most dramatic occurring in 1897 when a break away group of clubs formed the forerunner of today's AFL, the Victorian Football League (VFL).
		The Great War also affected how many teams played in the League, for the 1916 season only four teams competed, and in 1917 six teams.
	www.findfreeessays.com /show_essay/28530.html (82 words)

	Nickname - Australian Football League
		The merge of Fitzroy with Brisbane at the end of the 1996 season saw the 'Lions' nickname retained.
		Port Adelaide's first concerted push to enter the AFL spurred the rest of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) into action and the Adelaide 'Crows' became the first SA team to join the AFL.
		The choice of the name 'West Coast', rather than the more obvious and logical 'Perth', was due to a 'Perth' team already playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).
	home.vicnet.net.au /~nickname/afl.html (82 words)

	AFL Queensland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Queensland Football League (QFL), later Queensland Australian National Football League (QANFL) and Queensland Australian Football League (QAFL) (1903 - 1996)
		On 16 June 2003, the Queensland Team of the Century was announced at a gala function staged by AFLQ at the Brisbane Convention Centre.
		AFL Queensland (AFLQ) is the governing body of Australian rules football in the state of Queensland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/AFL_Queensland (300 words)

	Port Adelaide Football Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Port made the finals in its third AFL season (1999), won three consecutive minor premierships from 2002 to 2004, and its first AFL Premiership on 25 September 2004, defeating the Brisbane Lions.
		Port Adelaide's attempt to join the AFL forced the SANFL's hand and the Adelaide Crows were formed to represent a South Australian presence in the AFL, two years ahead of plan.
		It played in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) from 1870 until 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Adelaide_Football_Club (749 words)

	GoVooDoo.com
		AFL 2002: Kelly became the league's all-time passing leader after his season with the Dallas Desperados and led the expansion team to the second round of the playoffs.
		AFL 1996: After throwing for 1,333 yards and nine scores for the Rhein Fire of NFL Europe, he stepped indoors and completed 58-of-94 passes fro 671 yards, eight touchdown passes and an interception in three games.
		AFL 1997: Kelly was chosen by the Nashville Kats with their first selection in the Arena Football League Expansion Draft, and then led the league with a 113.8 quarterback rating on 309-pf-497 passing for a career-high 3,821 yards, 14 interceptions and a league and career-high 83 touchdown passes.
	www.govoodoo.com /playerbio.cfm?playerid=81 (749 words)

	NFL Preview '97
		But there is some precedent for success (though not much): Since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, 13 of the 114 rookie coaches who began the season took their teams to the playoffs, including Gilbride's predecessor, Bobby Ross.
		In a profession with ever decreasing margin for error, the grace period for Gilbride, the Giants' Jim Fassel and the 49ers' Steve Mariucci will be shorter than ever.
		Rookie Coaches Who Have Led Their Teams to the Playoffs since 1970
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /events/1997/nflpreview/AFCWEST/chargersnum.html (749 words)

	2003 AFL
		Featuring the most promising young guns who made a dramastic impact on the game during the Season 2002 from Round 1 to Round 22—The AFL RISING STAR NOMINEES.
		An additional series to the "1996 AFL Inaugural Hall Of Fame" series.
		To many of them, these cards are their FIRST AFL Trading cards.
	www.cardzone.com.au /AflVfl/2003.html (749 words)

	CNNSI.com - NFL Football - Houston expansion team will be called Texans - Thursday September 07, 2000 11:05 AM
		The team labeled the day "The Big Return," with the Texans replacing the Houston Oilers, who left for Tennessee after the 1996 season.
		Before moving to Kansas City and becoming the Chiefs, the AFL's Dallas Texans played in the Cotton Bowl for three years.
		University of Texas fans, noting the similarity of the Texans' bull logo and their own Longhorns mascot, immediately started waving their "Hook 'em horns" hand signal, including Lockeridge.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/nfl/news/2000/09/06/houston_logo_ap (925 words)

	The AFL
		In 1996, the League celebrated its centenary under the name, the Australian Football League.
		Initially he advocated the winter game of football as a way of keeping cricketers fit during their off-season.
		Until 1982 the League, then known as the Victorian Football League, had 12 clubs, all based in Victoria, 11 of them in Melbourne and the 12th, 75 kilometres away in the provincial city of Geelong.
	www.southernfootball.com.au /afl.htm (925 words)

	Arena Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The practice of playing one or two preseason exhibition games by each team prior to the start of the regular season was also discontinued at this time, and the regular season was extended from fourteen games, the length that it had been since 1996, to sixteen.
		Eventual Arena Football League (AFL) founder Jim Foster, a former National Football League and United States Football League executive, originally had a contract in hand in 1983 to play an exhibition game on the NBC television network, two decades before the first regular season games appeared on that network.
		Beginning with the 2003 season, the AFL made a deal with NBC to televise league games, which was renewed for another two years in 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arena_Football_League (678 words)

	Adelaide
		The Crows 1996 AFL Centenary stamp is shown above on the left and the front cover of the Peel and stick booklet on the right.
		The Football Park postmark (PMP 565) was used on the AFL Centenary Cover with the Adelaide Crows stamp on the first day of issue, 23rd April 1996.
		The Adelaide Crows Football Club was established in 1990 after a failed attempt by Port Adelaide to join the AFL.
	www.footystamps.com /adelaide_crows.htm (597 words)

	nov2-68369.html
		The will also be classic games from the defunct Sports AFL channel from 1996 & 1997 as well as games from Channel Seven’s extensive archive of the past 45 years.
		The channel Optus Vision will broadcast AFL on its service will be channel 13, which currently is C7 Sport Blue (which was the designated AFL channel by the channel’s provider, Channel Seven), which Optus have already removed from their web site & advertising promotions.
		This is also the first time a home-and-away season is launched before the pre-season, as a replacement for Ansett Airlines as the sponsor of the pre-season competition is yet to be found.
	www.afana.com /netpaper/nov2-68369.html (5570 words)

	bomberland :: Champions of Essendon
		Player honors: Brownlow Medal 1996; best and fairest 1994, 1995, 1996; 2nd best and fairest 2000; Norm Smith Medal 2000; All-Australian 1995, 1996, 2000; Norwich Union AFL Rising Star nominee 1993; leading goalkicker 1995, 1996; premiership sides 1993, 2000; pre-season premiership sides 1993, 1994, 2000; captain since 1998.
		A stunning year in 2000 - saw Hird win the Norm Smith medal, All-Australian selection, Ansett Cup premiership, Captaincy of the Australian team to compete in the post-season series against Ireland and captain of the premiership side.
		Hird took out the Best and Fairest for the third consecutive year in 1996, a truly remarkable feat.
	www.essendonfc.com.au /champions/profile.asp?ID=25 (401 words)

	Philadelphia Soul - Arena Football
		In 1996, Trigg¿s second year with the Milwaukee Mustangs, he set the then-AFL record for single-season turnaround, guiding the Mustangs from 4-8 in 1995 to a 10-4 mark in 1996.
		From 1991-93, Trigg was the offensive coordinator and director of pro scouting for the AFL¿s Dallas Texans, and served at his alma mater, East Texas State University, as quarterbacks coach in 1990.
		Trigg guided the Rampage to five straight playoff appearances and became just the fifth Arena Football League Coach to reach the 70-win plateau, making him the fourth winningest coach in AFL history (78 wins).
	www.philadelphiasoul.com /team/coaches/michael_trigg (396 words)

	Arena Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The practice of playing one or two preseason exhibition games by each team prior to the start of the regular season was also discontinued at this time, and the regular season was extended from fourteen games, the length that it had been since 1996, to sixteen.
		Eventual Arena Football League (AFL) founder Jim Foster, a former National Football League and United States Football League executive, originally had a contract in hand in 1983 to play an exhibition game on the NBC television network, two decades before the first regular season games appeared on that network.
		In conjunction with this, the league moved the beginning of the season from May to February (the week after the NFL's Super Bowl) and scheduled most of its games on Sunday instead of Friday or Saturday as it had in the past.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arena_Football_League (523 words)

	Philadelphia Soul - Arena Football
		In 1996, Trigg¿s second year with the Milwaukee Mustangs, he set the then-AFL record for single-season turnaround, guiding the Mustangs from 4-8 in 1995 to a 10-4 mark in 1996.
		Trigg guided the Rampage to five straight playoff appearances and became just the fifth Arena Football League Coach to reach the 70-win plateau, making him the fourth winningest coach in AFL history (78 wins).
		Despite a 5-11 Inaugural Season, key offseason acquisitions and a budding young nucleus of players have the Soul poised for sophomore success.
	www.philadelphiasoul.com /team/coaches/michael_trigg (396 words)

	AZSPORTSFAN.COM: Members: Sports Page
		Teams competing in the 2002 AFL season are: Arizona Rattlers, Buffalo Destroyers, Carolina Cobras, Chicago Rush, Dallas Desperados, Detroit Fury, Georgia Force, Grand Rapids Rampage, Indiana Firebirds, Los Angeles Avengers, New Jersey Gladiators, New York Dragons, Orlando Predators, San Jose SaberCats, Tampa Bay Storm and Toronto Phantoms.
		Sixteen teams will kickoff the AFL's 16th season on April 19, 2002 including new teams in Atlanta (Georgia Force) and Dallas (Desperados).
		VITO "BABE" PARILLI, Head coach, New England Steamrollers 1988, Denver Dynamite 1989-91, Charlotte Rage 1992, Las Vegas Sting 1994-95, Anaheim Piranhas 1996, Florida Bobcats 1997.
	azsportsfan.com /members/sports/04172002.4.html (396 words)

	Fremantle
		The AFL Centenary Cover below shows the Fremantle Sheetlet Stamp with the Fremantle Football Club Permanent Pictorial Postmark (PMP 643) introduced on 23rd April 1996.
		The Dockers, were formed in 1994 from the Fremantle sides based in the WAFL.
		Due to popular demand the postmark was changed on the 8th August 1996 to a more pictorial postmark (PMP 650) and the circular postmark was withdrawn.
	www.footystamps.com /fremantle_dockers.htm (346 words)

	Los Angeles Avengers
		In 1996, Hopkins had his rookie season in the AFL limited to just two games due to a broken left hand.
		Hopkins, who ranks at No. 7 on four of the league's major all-time lists -- receptions, receiving yards, receiving touchdowns and scoring, is also the AFL's second-leading receiver since the 2000 season with 466 catches for 5,733 yards.
		Hopkins had a career-year in his first season with the Avengers in 2002, finishing with 102 receptions for 1,285 yards and 29 touchdowns.
	www.laavengers.com /2005roster_GHopkins.php (648 words)

	Brisbane and Fitzroy records.
		In late 1996 the club operations of the Fitzroy Lions and the Brisbane Bears merged to form a NEW club called the Brisbane Lions, a fact that The Age newspapers have consistently refused to acknowledge throughout the 1999 football season.
		We are writing on behalf of the Victorian Lions Supporters Group (VLSG) to seek clarification from the AFL on the status of recording the history of the Brisbane Lions and the AFL’s stance on the Fitzroy and Brisbane Bears merger.
		The publication AFL 2001 states that the Brisbane Lions have played Adelaide 16 times and yet the AFL Official website statistics state that the two clubs have only played 7 times.
	www.viclions.com /royrecords.htm (2382 words)

	Florida Bobcats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sacramento Attack was an Arena Football League team that competed under that name in the 1992 AFL season only.
		When the Miami Hooters team discontinued its connection with the Hooters Restaurant chain after the 1995 season was completed, it developed both a new identity (the Bobcats) and a new color scheme involving teal and black as opposed to the former orange and brown associated with the restaurants.
		The Miami Hooters were a relocation of the Sacramento Attack Arena Football League team which had competed in the 1992 season.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sacramento_Attack (495 words)

	BomberBlitz.com - Story
		It will be the 1993 Brownlow Medallist's 73rd game over four and a half seasons with Port Adelaide and after 127 games with Essendon from 1991 to 1996.
		Gavin Wanganeen, who turns 28 this Saturday 16th June, will celebrate his 200th AFL match against Carlton on Sunday 24th June at Football Park.
		At the end of last season Wanganeen gave up the captaincy that he held for four years to concentrate on getting his football career back on track after a couple of injury riddled seasons.
	essendon.rivals.net /default.asp?sid=1451&p=2&stid=8132709 (381 words)

	Articles - Roger Merrett
		The Brisbane Lions' award for their best-and-fairest player over a season, the Merrett-Murray Medal, is part-named after him, and he is regarded as a potential future inclusion for the AFL Hall of Fame.
		He held coaching ambitions for much of his career, and on his retirement at the end of the 1996 season he was immediately recruited by his coach John Northey to fill an assistant coaching role at the Brisbane Lions (formed in 1996 from a merger between the Bears and the Fitzroy Football Club).
		Roger Merrett was an Australian rules footballer who played in two Victorian Football League premiership sides with the Essendon Football Club in the mid- 1980s before moving to the fledging Brisbane Bears, later captaining the new club for seven seasons.
	www.piagam.com /articles/Roger_Merrett (381 words)

	St Kilda Saints 2004 Wizard Cup
		Jones, one of the survivors of the Saints' 1996 summer premiership and one of his side's best in tonight's grand final win over Geelong, rated this year's pre-season win much higher.
		St Kilda's Wizard Cup win proves little, with coach Grant Thomas acknowledging his side can not be considered an AFL premiership threat this year.
		"Back then the Wizard Cup wasn't such a strong competition but this year a lot of sides have taken in full strengths sides so our 1996 win was probably a bit of a fake.
	members.iinet.net.au /~skewes/saints/wizardcup_04_3.html (381 words)

	Dallas Desperados - Roster
		AFL 1996: In his indoor debut, Allen played in 14 games for the Florida Bobcats and recorded 16.5 tackles, three sacks, two tackles for losses, two blocked kicks, a pass defensed and a fumble recovery.
		Allen was named to the AFL's second-team All-Arena team and was selected by his teammates and coaches as the Predators Ironman of the Year following the season.
		Allen began his career with the Florida Bobcats in 1996 before being traded to Albany in 1997.
	www.dallasdesperados.com /team_allen_ernest.cfm (1615 words)

	Search Results for FC - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Australian Football League (AFL) celebrated its 100th season in 1996, and North Melbourne FC emerged as the league's premier club, defeating Sydney before a crowd of 93,102 at the Melbourne...
		Adelaide FC won its first premiership in the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1997--in its seventh season in the competition.
		Football first came to South America in the 19th century through the port of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where European sailors played the game.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=FC&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (419 words)

	TBSN / Tampa Bay Sports Net - TAMPA BAY STORM NEWS - STORM SIGN KICKER IAN HOWFIELD
		The Las Vegas franchise moved to Anaheim the following season, and Howfield kicked for the Piranhas from 1996-97.
		Howfield's best year came with the Anaheim Piranhas in 1996, when he scored a career-high 128 points.
		Additionally, Howfield has booted the second longest made field goal in AFL history, a 61-yarder against the Miami Hooters on July 8, 1995, while playing with the Las Vegas Sting.
	www.tbsports.net /team_news/storm/2003/1103_howfield_signed.htm (543 words)

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