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In 1974, the National Football League (NFL) announced plans to launch a professional American football league in Europe, the Intercontinental Football League (IFL). Aiming for a launch in the spring of 1975, the IFL would feature six teams (located in Istanbul, Rome, Munich, West Berlin, Vienna, and Barcelona, respectively) and would be a satellite league of the NFL, with initial funds made by ...
This category contains players from the disbanded World League of American Football, NFL Europe and NFL Europa. Subcategories This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total.
At least nine foreign-born players played in the inaugural 1920 NFL season. [6] These included: German brothers John Nesser and Phil Nesser for the Columbus Panhandles.They were part of the Nesser Brothers, one of American football's most famous families of the early 20th century.
He was named Special Teams Player of the Week twice and selected to the all-NFL Europa team 2006 as special teams player. [6] [7] [8] He returned to the Amsterdam Admirals for his third NFL Europa season. In 2007, Kinoshita led NFL Europa with a 15.9-yard punt return average and ranked third with a 23.2-yard kickoff-return average.
The ELF has said it hopes to bring back the excitement around American football that existed in the era of NFL Europe. Unlike NFL Europe, whose team rosters consisted of mostly American players, there will be restrictions to the number of international players allowed on rosters. There will be a bigger focus given to homegrown players, with the ...
Linebacker Rich Scanlon (2005) was named NFL Europe Defensive MVP. In 2006, the Thunder had three players earn All-NFL Europe honors: guard Chad Beasley and safety Anthony Floyd earned all-league honors at their respective positions and German defensive end Christian Mohr was honored as the national player on the defensive all-league team.
The Admirals were formed in 1995 as part of the NFL's plan to restart the World League of American Football, to be based entirely in Europe. The Admirals were one of three new teams , the others being the Scottish Claymores based in Edinburgh and the Rhein Fire based in Düsseldorf , Germany , to join the old World League's European Division ...
These are American football players who have played for the Barcelona Dragons in either the World League of American Football or NFL Europe from the team's 1991 inception to its closure in 2003 Contents