Final Standings
| P | W | L | T | PF | PA | Pts | |
| Grupo Verde | |||||||
| Buhos Colima | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 27 | 6 |
| Guerreros Jaguar | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 74 | 57 | 4 |
| Ravens Colima | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 57 | 82 | 2 |
| Grupo Amarillo | |||||||
| Patriotas Chihuatlan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 57 | 33 | 4 |
| Lobos Colima | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 71 | 2 |
| Guerroros Tecuman | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 64 | 99 | 0 |
Report
Buhos Colima and Patriotas Chihuatlan won their respective groups (Red and Green) in the Zona Occidente (Western Zone) in the LEXFA (Liga Extrema de Football Arena) Mexico League in 2013.
Patriotas may be a reference to those who fought against the invading United Sates Army in the Mexican-US war of 1847, when John Riley, an Irish-American crossed the border to fight for the mainly Catholic Mexico, along with a band of soldiers, who fought under the banner ‘Battalón de San Patricio’.
LEXFA is an Arena (8v8 Indoor) version of American Football that has become quite popular in Mexico. A team called the Irish, who used the Notre Dame Fighting Irish logo played in a lower division in the National League.
References
Images
[1] LEXFA Wayback Machine (2017) titlebar [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20130813211128im_/http://arenafootball.com.mx/images/titlebar.jpg [Accessed 10 August 2020]
Internet Archive
[2] LEXFA Wayback Machine (2013) Estadisticas [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20130813202858/http://arenafootball.com.mx/18.php [Accessed 8 August 2020]
Websites
[3] Smithsonian Magazine (2020) During the Mexican-American War, Irish-Americans Fought for Mexico in the ‘Saint Patrick’s Battalion’ [Internet] Available from: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mexican-american-war-irish-immigrants-deserted-us-army-fight-against-america-180971713/ [Accessed 10 August 2020]
Online References
[5] Google Translate (2020) Google Translate [Internet] available from: https://translate.google.com/ [Accessed 9 August 2020]
[6] Google Maps (2020) Google Maps [Internet] available from: https://www.google.com/maps [Accessed 9 August 2020]
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Francesco
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Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the
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Last Updated: 10 August 2020
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