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Gary L. Davidson officially launched the World Football League at Chicago, October 2, 1973. It had been four years since the other two pro grid leagues, the 50-something National Football League melded the 10-year old American Football League into a 26-team superpower. In Davidson's sports memoir, Breaking the Game Wide-Open, his view for ...
The Detroit Wheels were assembled at the bargain basement price of $10,000 per player. A team official suggested, on the eve of training camp, that the team pitch tents in the city park so the Wheels could conduct practice at a reduced price.
Sheldon Joppru? Wimpy Winther? Don't recognize them? Well, they, too, are a part of Detroit's pro football legacy. As members of a team called the Detroit Wheels in 1974, they managed to write their own chapter in the city's professional football history.
The Detroit Wheels were an American football team, a charter member of the defunct World Football League.
In a league uniquely rich in comic misadventures and financial disasters, perhaps no one franchise from the World Football League’s inaugural 1974 season stood out more for its own brand of...
The DFL Museum needs your Detroit Wheels photos, trading cards, newspaper clippings, ticket stubs and personal remembrances for the Permanent Collection.
The Detroit Wheels were an American football team and a charter member of the now defunct World Football League. Soon after Gary Davidson announced the WFL's formation in October 1973, he was approached by a man named Bud Hucul about putting a team in Detroit.
