But we play with three downs, the field is 110 yards long, the end zone is 20 yards deep, [and] we have to line up a yard off the ball. I said I could run pretty good. We had no name! It’s taken me almost 20 years to reminisce and really reflect back. I still remember the guy, what he looked like and the T-shirt he was holding up, that was a brown t-shirt with an orange helmet on it that said “Baltimore Browns” and I just felt like someone kicked me in the stomach. It was the first football championship game between Canadian and American teams. The Stallions push the ball down field in a muddy contest against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Curtin College Courses, So when the free agency came around, the Stallions did pretty much nothing except add Las Vegas Posse kicker Carlos Huerta. Garrick Theatre Capacity, Don Matthews and the rest of the coaching staff talk to quarterback Tracy Ham (8) on the Stallions sideline. It was basketball on a football field... Everybody in the CFL had, particularly on defense, had to be able to run. It heavily wooed the St. Louis Cardinals football team owned by the Bidwill family, but they ultimately moved to Phoenix, Arizona as the Phoenix (later Arizona) Cardinals. They cleaned it up. The pipes were so bad in there. The Las Vegas Posse chose a simpler logo and colour choice. You get it in the air and it just sails. In contrast, the other American CFL teams stocked their rosters with former NFL players, former college football players, and locally-known players. Ch 7  |  Football Returns to East 33rd Street, Canadian Football Hall of Fame and Museum. The NFL was watching and said “Look at this, we made a mistake. “You’re an American fan? For some 30 years, Baltimore had been home to the Baltimore Colts, a popular NFL team that suddenly moved literally overnight to Indianapolis in 1984. We didn’t drive the ball much. Baltimore led the CFL in attendance in 1994, averaging 37,000 fans per game, roughly 7,500 more than the next team, Edmonton. But staying on the road creates [bonds]… It’s a little like going camping. At least what the coaches were looking for at the time, they were looking for more of a speed stretch guy. It was just a terrible situation for these people and this city that really thought they were gonna get a team back. A lot of fans, they were starved for football, so that’s why they came back out. 1993 Season 1995 Season. Even the defensive lineman had to be somewhat agile because they had to be on the run. Winning was the bottom line for Don, and he was diligent in seeking the bottom line. Again, we were more or less used by [St. Louis Cardinals owner Bill] Bidwell. However many fans were motivated to support the CFL out of antipathy towards the NFL, which had not only backed the re-location of the NFL Colts to Indianapolis, but had subsequently spurned several attempts to return an NFL franchise to the city. Bottom line was I had to cooperate, which was a smart business decision. We renovated the stadium, we put a new field in. He knew Canadian football was very different from the American game, so he made a point of hiring personnel and players with CFL experience. He also invited the old Baltimore Colts Marching Band, which had stayed together along with the old team's uniformed cheerleaders for over a decade, to play at his games. CFL teams played each team in their own division twice, two teams in the other division twice, and the four remaining teams in the other division only once.