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In addition to being the most successful of the U.S. CFL teams on the field, Baltimore was far and away the most successful of the CFL's American teams at the box office. It had significant fan support and strong attendance – averaging 37,347 in 1994 (best in the CFL), and 30,112 in 1995 (second best).
The 1994 Baltimore Football Club season was the first in the history of the Baltimore CFL franchise. Initially intended to be named the Baltimore CFL Colts, the team was forced to adopt a generic name after Robert Irsay successfully enjoined the team from using any name that might associate with the former Baltimore Colts, which he had controversially moved to Indiana 11 years prior.
Baltimore was far and away the most successful of any American CFL team both on the field and off, averaging crowds of over 37,000 their first year. [48] Knowing that Canadian football was considerably different from the American game, Speros stocked the Baltimore club mostly with CFL veterans.
The CFL admitted three more United States-based teams, to add to the Sacramento Gold Miners, who were introduced in 1993.. The Las Vegas Posse, the Shreveport Pirates and the Baltimore CFLers made the league 12 teams in total, six in each division.
After the 1994 season, a name-the-team fan poll was held to decide a new team name. After the team's first week of the season being known as the Baltimore Football Club, the fan poll ended and Jim Speros announced to the Baltimore faithful that their team would be known as the Baltimore Stallions. Mike Pringle's rushing totals were 1,791 yards ...
For the sake of simplicity, this list will only focus on national (non-regional, non-National Football League) outdoor (i.e., not arena football or leagues with similar rules) North American football teams not covered in other lists; i.e., the All-America Football Conference, the first three universally recognized as major incarnations of the American Football League, Continental Football ...
The 82nd Grey Cup was the 1994 Canadian Football League championship game played between the Baltimore Football Club and the BC Lions at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was the first championship in professional football history to feature a United States -vs- Canada matchup.
In its final season in Baltimore, the Stallions became the only U.S.-based CFL team to win the Grey Cup, upsetting the heavily favored Calgary Stampeders. The Baltimore Mariners , a franchise of the American Indoor Football Association , played at the 1st Mariner Arena from 2008 to 2010.