MLF Eastern Conference Teams

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About

Major League Football (MLF) is a Professional American Football League intended to start play in Fall 2022, which would put it in direct competition with the National Football League (NFL) which is the 100-year old established Professional American Football League, which has to date seen off all challenges to its position as the number 1 Professional League, although it had to absorb a successful alternative in the American Football League (AFL) of the 1960s (see https://eirball.ie/national-football-league/ for more details on the NFL and https://eirball.ie/american-football-leagues/ for more details on Alternative Leagues to the NFL).

Some Leagues never even start, and considering the Major League Football of 2022 has not yet announced team names, stadia, ownership groups or any other details such as media partners and player tryouts as of 7 January 2022 and is intending to play in the Fall of 2022 it is most likely to fall into this latter category. It has announced it is starting with 32 teams, just like the Trinity Professional Spring Football League which also named only cities and states where teams were to be based and no other details. (see https://eirball.ie/failed-american-football-leagues/ )

Major League Football is intending to go directly head-to-head with the NFL in 14 Markets as well as in the Fall. These markets are: New Jersey (NFLs Jets and Giants), Philadelphia (NFLs Eagles), Miami (NFLs Dolphins), Atlanta (NFLs Falcons), Cleveland (NFLs Browns), Chicago (NFLs Bears), Cincinnati (NFLs Bengals), New Orleans (NFLs Saints), Maryland (NFLs Baltimore Ravens), North Carolina (NFLs Carolina Panthers), Dallas (NFLs Cowboys), Houston (NFLs Texans), Los Angeles (NFLs Rams and Chargers) and San Jose (NFLs San Francisco 49ers). [References: 27]

In addition to those 14 NFL markets, the MLF is intending to put teams in Oakland, San Diego and St. Louis which were all vacated by NFL teams recently, and 10 markets which previously held Alternative League teams: New York (teams in USFL, XFL), Virginia (UFL), Orlando (USFL, WLAF, UFL, XFL), Alabama (Birmingham: USFL, WLAF, AAF, XFL), Sacramento (WLAF, CFL USA, UFL), Austin (AFA), San Antonio (USFL, WLAF, CFL USA), Nebraska (Omaha, UFL), Memphis (USFL, XFL) and Oklahoma (USFL) [References: 3-26]

The last 5 markets the MLF is intending to put teams in have never had either a Major Alternative Football League team or National Football League team in the modern era. These markets are: South Carolina, West Virginia, Mississippi, Kentucky and Arkansas.

Image References

[1] Major League Football (2022) MLF [Internet] Available from: http://majorleaguefootball.pro/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MLF.png [Accessed 7 January 2022]

References

[2] Major League Football (2022) About [Internet] Available from: http://majorleaguefootball.pro/#about [Accessed 7 January 2022]

USFL References

WEBSITES

[3] USFL.info (2017) 1983 Standings [Internet] Available from: http://www.usfl.info/1983standings.html [Accessed 3 February 2017]

[4] USFL.info (2017) 1983 Playoffs [Internet] Available from: http://www.usfl.info/1983playoffs.html [Accessed 3 February 2017]

[5] USFL.info (2017) 1984 Standings [Internet] Available from: http://www.usfl.info/1984standings.html [Accessed 3 February 2017]

[6] USFL.info (2017) 1984 Playoffs [Internet] Available from: http://www.usfl.info/1984playoffs.html [Accessed 3 February 2017]

[7] USFL.info (2017) 1985 Standings [Internet] Available from: http://www.usfl.info/1985standings.html [Accessed 3 February 2017]

[8] USFL.info (2017) 1985 Playoffs [Internet] Available from: http://www.usfl.info/1985playoffs.html [Accessed 3 February 2017]

AFA REFERENCES

WEBSITES

[9] Birmingham Pro Sports (2019) AFA 1977 [Internet] Available from: http://www.birminghamprosports.com/afatribute/afa1977.html [Accessed 25 November 2019]

[10] Birmingham Pro Sports (2019) AFA 1978 [Internet] Available from: http://www.birminghamprosports.com/afatribute/afa1978.html [Accessed 25 November 2019]

[11] Birmingham Pro Sports (2019) AFA 1979 [Internet] Available from: http://www.birminghamprosports.com/afatribute/afa1979.html [Accessed 25 November 2019]

[12] Birmingham Pro Sports (2019) AFA 1980 [Internet] Available from: http://www.birminghamprosports.com/afatribute/afa1980.html [Accessed 25 November 2019]

[13] Birmingham Pro Sports (2019) AFA 1981 [Internet] Available from: http://www.birminghamprosports.com/afatribute/afa1981.html [Accessed 25 November 2019]

[14] Birmingham Pro Sports (2019) AFA 1982 [Internet] Available from: http://www.birminghamprosports.com/afatribute/afa1982.html [Accessed 25 November 2019]

[15] Birmingham Pro Sports (2019) AFA 1983 [Internet] Available from: http://www.birminghamprosports.com/afatribute/afa1983.html [Accessed 25 November 2019]

XFL References WEBSITES

[16] Remember the XFL (2017) XFL Final Standings [Internet] Available from: http://sites.google.com/site/rememberthexfl/standings [Accessed 3 February 2017]

UFL REFERENCES

INTERNET ARCHIVE

[17] United Football League | Internet Archive (2010) Schedule 2009 [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20100102212241/http://www.ufl-football.com/schedule [Accessed 13 August 2019]

[18] United Football League | Internet Archive (2011) Schedule 2010 [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20110609043730/http://www.ufl-football.com/schedule [Accessed 13 August 2019]

[19] United Football League | Internet Archive (2011) Schedule 2011 [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20111026023511/http://www.ufl-football.com/schedule [Accessed 13 August 2019]

XFL 2.0 REFERENCES

WEBSITES

[20] XFL (2020) XFL Standings [Internet] Available from: https://stats.xfl.com/standings/ [Accessed 31 March 2020]

AAF WEBSITES

[21] Alliance of American Football (2019) Standings [Internet] Available from: https://aaf.com/standings [Accessed 4 April 2019]

WLAF References

[22] World League of American Football (2018) WLAF History: 1991 [Internet] Available from: http://www.worldleagueofamericanfootball.com/id165.html [Accessed 23 April 2018]

WLAF References: NEWSPAPERS

[23] Anon. (1991) “Standings” First Down, June 1, 1991, pg. 5

[24] Anon. (1991) “Jon’s too Hort to handle” First Down, June 8, 1991, pg. 4-5

[25] Anglesey, Steve (1991) “Enter the Dragons!” First Down, June 15, 1992, pg. 6-7

WLAF References: WEBSITES

[26] World League of American Football (2018) WLAF History: 1992 [Internet] Available from: http://www.worldleagueofamericanfootball.com/id166.html [Accessed 23 April 2018]

NFL References

SCHEDULE REFERENCES

[27] NFL (2021) Scores Regular Season Week 1 [Internet] Available from: https://www.nfl.com/scores/2021/REG1 [Accessed 20 September 2021]

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