Before the WFL, Davidson was the co-founder and president ... Along with their twenty game regular season, a gold football with orange stripes, hip, modern uniforms, and the world’s largest ...

gold-and-orange-striped footballs that flew like kited checks in the World Football League, and red-white-and-blue basketballs whose pigmented leather was hard to grip in the American Basketball ...

Haynes wanted to cry: What have I gotten myself into? It could have been the official slogan for the World Football League. When the WFL launched with 12 teams in July 1974, Gary Davidson ...

The WFL was founded by Gary Davidson ... NFL team to improve its stadium situation by using a football-starved city as leverage. The Orange Bowl, owned by the city of Miami, had nearly doubled ...

then played three years as a defensive end for the University of Florida and as a linebacker for the Express until the original WFL folded. After football Browne focused on the family business ...