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Because the cost of running a fully professional American football team is prohibitive, semi-pro football is common at the adult levels, in the outdoor or indoor variety, providing an outlet for players who have used up their NCAA eligibility and have no further use for maintaining amateur status. As a sport that normally plays only one game ...
The birth of semi-professional football can be traced back to the 1880s, when most sports clubs in America had a team playing football, and ostensibly played without paid players. In reality, most teams often found ways around that, and acquired the best players with the promise of jobs and trophies or watches to play against top regional clubs ...
Adult amateur football, also known as semi-pro football, is a level of American football. It is commonly known as "working man's" football, meaning the players have regular jobs and play football on the weekends. Though the players do not get paid, the leagues and the games are run in a somewhat professional manner.
Age played Year retired American football: Manfred Burgsmüller [1] 52 years, 182 days 2002 Association football: Ezzeldin Bahader (one-off) [2] 74 years, 348 days 2020 Kazuyoshi Miura (continuous) 57 years, 308 days Active Australian rules football: Sampson Hosking : 48 years, 159 days (interchange only) 1936 Wally Watts : 44 years, 49 days 1916
While there are various semi-professional football leagues, none have any affiliation with the National Football League (NFL). The NFL and its teams have had working relationships with several independent leagues in the past, including the Association of Professional Football Leagues, the Atlantic Coast Football League, and most recently, the league owned-and-operated NFL Europe.
They own a total of ten national titles, the second most of any semi-pro team in the United States. The Raiders have 667 wins, more wins than any other semi-pro team in the United States. The Raiders were the first minor league football team to gain 501(c)(3) Not-For-Profit status from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 1990. [2]
He was a two-time All-state selection and was named to the 2015 USA Today All-USA high school football second-team. [2] He set the state record for career receiving yards (3,571) and career receiving touchdowns (41). He was a four star recruit coming out of high school and committed to Stanford University to play college football. [3] [4]
Otis Sistrunk (born September 18, 1946) is an American former professional football player who played his entire seven-year career as a defensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL), from 1972 to 1978. Sistrunk later became a professional wrestler in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in 1981.