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Subject: Re: CONTINENTAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Author:
john meyer

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Date Posted: 08:23:11 08/31/04 Tue
In reply to: BC-OF-THE-CFL.INC 's message, "CONTINENTAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE" on 08:54:30 08/29/04 Sun

>After the 1965 season, the first of the Continental
>Football League, a contract was signed between the
>Continental Football League and the ABC Network to
>begin national televising of the league in 1966, as
>had been done the earlier years with the network with
>the American Football League. Somehow the National
>Football League interceded illegally and that is how
>there is a Monday Night Football with the NFL.
>
>The United Network which evolved into the Overmeyer
>Network was in process of doing the same thing, as a
>"Fox Network" in 1967, this never took place.
>
>How did these two events take place, rather not take
>place without legal intervention?
>
>Hawkeye

Since the NFL-AFL merger had not yet become reality in 1965, was hardly more than in the talking stages, and since the first Monday night football was in either 1970 or 1971 it seems unlikely that the NFL had anything to do with the non-televising of the Continental League in 1966.

IIRC, the Overmeyer network was one of those underfunded tv outfits that simply didn't have the money necessary to create a network. Same thing happened to DuMont in the 1950's, they were the third network but ran out of cash and collapsed.

In the 1970's Paramount planned to launch a fourth network, using the revived Star Trek series as their centerpiece, but again lack of money and lack of enough independent stations in large cities willing to commit to a new network finished that dream.

Anyway, in 1965 the NFL was trying to come to some kind of agreement with the AFL, and the Continental League was hardly a bump in that road.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: CONTINENTAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE	Klaus	13:13:09 08/31/04 Tue
Re: CONTINENTAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE -- john meyer, 15:02:28 08/31/04 Tue