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The Gridiron Developmental Football League (GDFL) is a low-level American football minor league [1] [2] based in Memphis, Tennessee, using the franchise model. [3] [4] The GDFL acts as an umbrella group that encompasses teams from across the Contiguous United States. [5] As of April 2023, the league has 29 teams.
The National Gridiron League (NGL) was a proposed gridiron football league. In 2022, after three years of postponed seasons, the organization rebranded as the United Football League (UFL)., [1] prior to the current UFL (formed from the merger of the 2020s USFL and XFL leagues). In 2024, the NGL resurfaced to claim to be launching in 2025.
National Gridiron League/United Football League, 2019-2023 (never played) Arena Football Association, ... Texas Sixman Football League, 1999–2012; Women's leagues
The first minor leagues period of prosperity or "heyday" [8] started in the 1920s and lasted until the end of World War II.By the 1930s, football was not a fledgling enterprise, but pro football was, as even the National Football League had trouble attracting fans, and was located mostly in the northeastern quarter of the United States.
Teams during the 104th Grey Cup in 2016, the championship game of the Canadian Football League. In the United States and Canada, the term professional football (French: football professionnel) includes the professional forms of American and Canadian gridiron football. In common usage, it refers to former and existing major football leagues in ...
According to 2017 study on brains of deceased gridiron football players, 99% of tested brains of NFL players, 88% of CFL players, 64% of semi-professional players, 91% of college football players, and 21% of high school football players had various stages of CTE. [25] Other common injuries include injuries of legs, arms, and lower back. [26 ...
Jennifer Welter – First woman to play in a non-kicking or skill position in a men's professional football league, as running back for the Texas Revolution of the Indoor Football League in 2014. [7] [24] In 2015, Welter became the first female coach in a men's professional football league, after joining the coaching staff of the Revolution. [7]
The College Gridiron Showcase (CGS) is an independently operated annual post-season college football event hosted each January in Fort Worth, Texas. [1] The event consists of NFL draft prospects who have completed their eligibility in NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, and the NAIA. CGS also hosts the Pro Gridiron Showcase ...