Southern Southern California Sun 1974 Program

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Dead Football League: Detroit Wheels Team Kit

The Detroit Wheels were an American football team, a charter member of the World Football League. Soon after Gary Davidson announced the WFL’s formation in October 1973, he was approached by a man named Bud Hucul about putting a team in Detroit. It emerged that Hucul had a long history of legal prob…

Southern Southern California Sun 1974 Program

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http://goodseatsstillavailable.com host Tim Hanlon reminisces about the WFL Detroit Wheels with Mark Speck

In a league uniquely rich in comic misadventures and financial disasters, perhaps no one franchise from the World Football League’s inaugural 1974 season stood out more for its own brand of woeful ineptitude than the Detroit Wheels. Saddled from inception by an unwieldy ownership group of 33 differ

This program was from a September 18th, 1974 game between the Sun and the Detroit Wheels. 22,143 fans at Anaheim Stadium watched as Gary Valbuena came off the bench to rally the Sun to a 29-24 victory. With 1:47 remaining, Valbuena ran three plays, all passes within 47 seconds to win the game.

The Southern Southern California Sun were a World Football League team that played both the 1974 and 1975 seasons. They were 13-7 in 1974 and 7-5 in the shortened 1975 season. They played at Anaheim Stadium and were coached by former Rams great and Hall of Famer Tom Fears. The team drew national attention for their (at the time) outlandish Sambo’s Orange and Pink uniforms (Sam Battistone, owner of the Sambo’s restaurant chain also owned the Sun).

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