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The Empty Cathedral

THE EMPTY CATHEDRAL

How the Chicago Owls beat the Bears to Soldier Field, played the first U.S. pro football game in Mexico, and became the ghost that Chicago's next great football story will have to answer to.

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The Panthers of the Tangerine Bowl

THE PANTHERS OF THE TANGERINE BOWL

Orlando's first professional football team won two championships in five years, filled a stadium the city didn't know it needed, and left behind a tree that grew into a Big 12 program.

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The First Ones In

THE FIRST ONES IN

The Charleston Rockets won the first Continental Football League championship in 1965 with a perfect season, a community-owned front office, and a stadium a town had built for its high schools.

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The Empty Cathedral

THE QUARTERBACK NOBODY WAS LOOKING FOR

In 1969, a twenty-two-year-old rookie no one drafted and everyone underestimated led the Indianapolis Capitols through sudden-death overtime and made history no scoreboard could capture.

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The Empty Cathedral

Before the Genius: Bill Walsh's Forgotten Season in the Continental Football League

How one season in San Jose, on a club that had to earn every dollar and every fan, sits at the start of the most influential coaching career in modern football.

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The Empty Cathedral

Before Mars: Otis Sistrunk's Road Through the Continental Football League

He never played a down of college football. He went from the Marine Corps to a Milwaukee meat-cutting plant to a Norfolk defensive line, and then to a Super Bowl ring. The Continental Football League was the bridge.

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