American Football League - Fictional History

  Round 1 1 - Cleveland - RB Bo Golden - St. Louis State - Kingsfan11 2 - Chicago - OL Mitch Hunt - Armitage - idm 3 - Tri-Cities - WR Sonny Delvecchio - Brooklyn College - Kingsfan11 4 - Buffalo - OL Jerry Colangelo - Vermont - idm 5 - Pittsburgh - DB Rex Leavitt - Deseret - DireBear 6 - Philadelphia - S David Jefferson - Virginia Commonwealth - idm 7 - Boston - DL Hugo Cumberdale - Indiana - Jayhawk 8 - Tri-Cities (from STL) - DL Lou Spanos - University of Cleveland - DireBear 9 - Washington - OL Alan Varnas - Chicago Christian - DireBear 10 - Detroit - DL Herman Escalante - ULA - DireBear 11 - Cleveland (from NY) - QB Cassius Sterling - Wyoming State - Darknes 12 - Cincinnati - S Will Heckel - Ohio - Kingsfan11 In prior year’s drafts, the first overall pick seemed like it was a fairly obvious choice for the team selecting. This year appears to be different. Cleveland had two gaping holes at skill positions that they needed to fill, needing a top halfback with Max Panders retirin...

AACA Top 20: 1) Genesee (NY) - 10-0 [Independent] 2) Louisiana - 9-1 [SoCon] 3) Mississippi Tech - 9-1 [SoCon] 4) Texas - 9-1 [AATU] 5) Georgia - 9-1 [SoCon] 6) Wisconsin State - 7-2 [Big Western] 7) Southwestern Christian - 8-2 [AATU] 8) Washington State - 9-1 [PAC] 9) Arkansas State - 8-2 [Independent] 10) Alabama State - 7-1-2 [SoCon] 11) Pickens Tech - 8-2 [AAC] 12) Pennsylvania - 8-2 [ECC] 13) Illinois - 5-3-1 [Big Western] 14) ULA - 8-2 [PAC] 15) Oklahoma - 7-3 [MRVC/Big 8] 16) Wyoming State - 9-1 [Frontier] 17) Missouri State - 6-4 [MRVC/Big 8] 18) Florida State - 5-4-1 [AAC] 19) Pittsburgh State - 6-4 [Independent] 20) McTyeire (TN) - 7-3 [Magnolia] AACA Bowls: Rose Bowl (Los Angeles, CA) - (12) Penn 44 -6 (8) Washington State Palm Bowl (Miami, FL) - (5) Georgia 14 -0 (11) Pickens Tech Magnolia Bowl (Houston, TX) - (1) Genesee 23 -14 (15) Oklahoma Columbian Bowl (Chicago, IL) -  (6) Wisconsin State 7 -0 (9) Arkansas State Gold Bowl (San Francisco, CA) - (14) ULA 20 -7 Arizo...

Retirements OL Bill Armstrong - Evansville, IN College: Rogers Clark (IN) Teams: Chicago Hogs (1948-1957) AFL Championships: 3 (1951, 1952, 1954) All-AFL: 4 (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954) All-Star: 4 (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954) Armstrong will be looked back upon as part of how offensive linemen changed from the beginnings of the sport to how it is today. A standout player for the Rogers Clark Badgers, he was much larger than many of the players that would have played at the position in the past. His burly stature pretty much stopped any defender in his tracks, and the Hogs thought they could use him to stop defenders from their cross-town rival. The Stars defensive line could seemingly get through any blocker, and the Hogs were willing to throw anything at the wall to see what stuck. Armstrong was fitting to his name, almost single-handedly stopping the lankier Stars defensive linemen, and the rest of the league took notice of how to make an offensive line. Armstrong was a cornerstone of the ...

After utilizing their stadium partner’s identity for the past two years, the New York Lions finally got an identity for themselves. After piggy-backing off of the Dutch Lions and getting a run to the championship, owner Peter Stuyvesant wanted to take the Lions in a different direction. Instead of using a dutch lion, he took inspiration from the New York Public Library’s lions, to be fitting for “a team of regal stature in the country’s largest city”. The new primary logo will be the stoic head of one of the lion statues, replacing the heraldic dutch lion that was used in a similar capacity. The Lions also swapped out the tuscan-inspired interlocking N-Y for one that is more blocky, though it will be relegated to secondary use. Their typeset also changes slightly to fit in line with the new secondary. Their uniforms, however, will remain the same, not wanting to change them with a miracle title run this past year. Tri-Cities owner Bob Hester ran into the same issue that Cincinnati had ...

LEAGUE MOVES EXPANSION TO 1960 & 1961 The AFL’s expansion over the past two years can be considered a rousing success. Out of the 4 teams introduced, all but one have made the playoffs (with the Rattlesnakes only missing out by half a game) and all of them have won at least one game in the playoffs. Boston and St Louis look like they will be up there with the “Big Three” teams of Chicago, Cincinnati, and Washington. New York made a miracle run for the title this past year. Philadelphia has some of the largest attendance numbers the league has seen so far. With the sport of football on the up and up in recent years, the league announced that it will move up the second half of the “Manhattan Plan” by one year. Los Angeles and San Francisco are now slated to join for the 1960 season, with two other teams to join a year later in 1961. The two bids from San Francisco, the group that attempted to buy the Knights (Allen Penoyer & Ernest Barlowe) and the other headed by former Kansas C...

MIRACLE TITLE IN THE PAFC OVERSHADOWED BY CHAOS The PAFC has been trying to distance itself from the game-fixing scandal that had made the league seem less legitimate the year prior. League president Virgil Bradshaw had only given the minimal funds necessary to keep several teams afloat, but seemed more interested in propping up the teams he actually cared about. After he sent in union-busters to stop his league’s players from striking, a mass exodus of players left to the ASPFL and AFL for better pay. Only two teams (Baltimore and New Orleans) willingly increased pay before their players went on strike, while the remainder either refused and brought in scabs or relented after play stopped. Milwaukee and Minneapolis were bleeding money after settlements due to their players’ involvement in the match-fixing scandal, and were only able to make it through the first 3 weeks of the season before both ran out of money to pay for their players and their operating costs. Kansas City fared no b...

Temperatures were reaching near 60° right before Christmas in Cincinnati as River Field hosted its second straight championship game. Rivermen fans once again filled the stadium over its capacity, but fell short of following up on last year’s crowd. Many New York fans made the trek over to watch their miracle team make it to the championship game, and if their last two games were any precedent then they’ll make it rough for the home team. Q1 New York wanted to make a statement on their opening drive, opting to start out their first title game with the ball. Having not played all year, the normally stout Rivermen defense could not stop the Lions’ ground game. RB Felix Philipow tore through the Cincinnati front seven, pretty much single-handedly carrying the Lions downfield and right onto the goal line. After a rush by RB Bernard Parks went nowhere, Philipow went right back out and beat the Rivermen secondary to the outside for the first score of the game. The Cincinnati offense seemed a...