Would-be NFL Lockout Alternatives in Detroit

Zac Snyder — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:00:29 +0000

In my effort to bring you something fresh and interesting to read during the dog-days of the lockout, I took a look at some football alternatives that could have been a useful distraction from the NFL’s labor troubles. Here are some handy links in case you missed one installment or the entire series:

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Would-be NFL Lockout Alternatives: Detroit Wheels

Zac Snyder — Sat, 28 May 2011 14:00:01 +0000

With the NFL lockout still in full-force, we continue our look at some alternatives of the past that could have been a useful distraction while the NFL owners and players settle their dispute. We continue today with the Detroit Wheels of the World Football League.

The World Football League was created to bring American football to markets across the world. Given that stated goal, it isn’t hard to label the league an utter failure considering they never reached beyond Honolulu, Hawaii.

Some of the would-be NFL lockout alternatives we have and will have reviewed had some level of viability, however the Detroit Wheels were seemingly a failure from the beginning of the WFL’s inaugural season in 1974. The team had name-recognition in their ownership group, Marvin Gaye and Mike Ilitch to name two, but lacked the financial backing that one would expect from such prominent men. Financial restrictions put in place by ownership prevented the team from signing 30 of the team’s 33 draft picks. An inability to find players was just their first problem.

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Would-be NFL Lockout Alternatives in Detroit

Would-be NFL Lockout Alternatives: Detroit Wheels