History

The Jersey Jays: Blue-Collar Football in the Shadow of Giants revisits the 1969 season of New Jersey’s forgotten Continental Football League team, a gritty, working-class squad that battled for pride in the shadow of the NFL. The story explores the Jays’ surprising 7–5 record and their enduring legacy within the Garden State’s football heritage. It also highlights the potential rebirth of a modern CoFL franchise at Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson.

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...

When football fans talk about rival leagues of the past, the AFL and USFL usually dominate the conversation. The AFL forced the NFL into...

How a short-lived minor league became the launchpad for football’s greatest innovator. When football historians speak of Bill Walsh, the...

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