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American Football League, 1926, 1936–1937, and 1940–1941 (all unrelated, three separate leagues) California Winter League, [26] 1927–1928; Western Interprovincial Football Union, 1936–1960 [27] United States Football League, 1945 (Never played) Trans-America Football League , 1945 (Never played) World Football League, 1974–1975
The 1983 VFL Grand Final was the first time in history that the Grand Final was broadcast live into the U.S. [162] The VFL wasn't the only Australian rules on American screens. The South Australian National Football League also had a broadcast rights deal with American cable television and by 1984 was attracting around 40 million viewers to its ...
The American Football League (AFL) was a major professional American football league that operated for ten seasons from 1960 until 1970, when it merged with the older National Football League (NFL), and became the American Football Conference. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence.
At the end of the 1924 season, the VFL took over the MDFA and replaced it with the VFL Sub-Districts, officially called the Victorian Football League Sub-Districts Association. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] W.H. Smith was elected as the new league's inaugural president, and the first game was played on 2 May 1925 between Oakleigh and Dandenong .
As a result, virtually all major league teams were concentrated in the northeastern quarter of the United States, within roughly the radius of a day-long train ride. No MLB teams existed south or west of St. Louis, the NFL was confined to the Great Lakes and the Northeast, and the NBA's 1946 launch spanned only from St. Louis to Boston.
Under the administration's new name Football Victoria (later AFL Victoria), those two competitions were merged into a single competition still known as the Victorian Football League. Since this time, the VFL has been contested by a mixture of three types of clubs: VFL clubs, operating on a stand-alone basis and maintaining a complete list of ...
The Victorian Football League, known until 1996 as the Victorian Football Association, began in 1877 and was Victoria's premier football league until 1897, and has been the second-tier league in the state since. Perfect seasons have been completed on five occasions in VFA/VFL history, but only twice in full-length seasons:
The American Hockey League (AHL) is a 32-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL). [38] Since the 2010–11 season, every team in the league has an affiliation agreement with an NHL team. Twenty-six AHL teams are located in the ...