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Roster Management in the Continental Football League: Building Teams the Right Way
The Continental Football League (CoFL) is redefining roster management with a system rooted in development, community, and regional identity. Each team may invite 50 players to training camp, with 25 between ages 18–25, ensuring youth and opportunity drive competition. Final rosters are set at 36 active players plus 4 practice squad members, emphasizing versatility and depth.
Every franchise must also include five local players, athletes who played high school or small colleg

CoFL Staff
5 hours ago4 min read


The Continental Shift: When the Fourth Quarter Goes North
The Continental Football League redefines the fourth quarter with The Continental Shift—a bold fusion of American and Canadian rules featuring three downs, waggle motion, and the Rouge. Fast, unpredictable, and historic, it’s football’s next evolution: Three quarters of tradition. One quarter of revolution.

CoFL Staff
23 hours ago5 min read


The San Antonio Toros: South Texas’ scrappy contenders of the Continental Football League
If you love the odd corners of American football history, the San Antonio Toros are catnip. In an era when the NFL–AFL merger was...

CoFL Staff
5 days ago8 min read


Texas Syndicate Becomes the 1st Entry into the Southern Division
When the Continental Football League (CoFL) was reintroduced earlier this year, one of its central promises was to bring football back to the communities that live and breathe the game, but often go overlooked by the NFL. Today, that promise takes another step forward with the announcement of the Texas Syndicate, the newest member of the CoFL and the first official franchise in the league’s Southern Division.

CoFL Staff
Sep 185 min read


The Ohio Valley Ironmen Become the Flagship Franchise of the New CoFL
Forged in Tradition, Built for the Future The Ohio Valley has always been a land where steel, sweat, and spirit define the people who...

CoFL Staff
Sep 115 min read


Reviving Tradition: The Reborn Continental Football League and Its Community-Centric Vision
Michael Lathrop of Player 54 Podcast interviews Commissioner Mike Kelly Commisioer Mike Kelly Interview with Michael Lathrop of Player 54...

CoFL Staff
Sep 93 min read


CoFL NAMES COMMISSIONER
Veteran coach, executive, and educator to lead reintroduction of historic league Mike Kelly CoFL Commissioner WHEELING-WV: The...

CoFL Staff
Sep 92 min read


The Continental Football League: Bold Beginnings of a Forgotten Dream
When football fans talk about rival leagues of the past, the AFL and USFL usually dominate the conversation. The AFL forced the NFL into...

CoFL Staff
Sep 55 min read


Before the Genius: Bill Walsh’s Forgotten Start in the CoFL
How a short-lived minor league became the launchpad for football’s greatest innovator. When football historians speak of Bill Walsh, the...

CoFL Staff
Sep 53 min read


Otis Sistrunk: From the CoFL to the “University of Mars”
In the annals of pro football, few names carry the mix of grit, legend, and sheer improbability quite like Otis Sistrunk. Known as the bald-headed defensive lineman who anchored the Oakland Raiders in the 1970s, Sistrunk became a cult hero when ABC’s Monday Night Football jokingly introduced him as a graduate of the “University of Mars.”But before he was a Raider icon, Sistrunk was grinding in the shadows of a forgotten league, the CoFL

CoFL Staff
Sep 54 min read
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