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[> [> [> Re: Shreveport Steamer WFL -- charles arey, 16:07:42 07/03/20 Fri (75.88.196.48)


>>What did the Shreveport Steamer's helmets look like on
>>September 19?
>
>Short answer first -- The probably wore the Texans
>helmets for they game because that's what they were
>still being billed as.
>
>The WFL took over the franchise and sold it to a
>Shreveport backer on September 18 and then things got
>complicated.
>
>Shortly after the announcement, a temporary injunction
>was granted forcing the team to play one more home
>game in Houston on Sept. 25 before being allowed to
>move. The injunction was sought not by the city of
>Houston, which couldn't have cared less, or by the
>Astrodome, who had a profitable tenant who paid their
>bills in the Oilers, but by at Houston meat business
>that was running a promotion at the next Texans home
>game.
>
>On September 19, the Texans, who weren't really the
>Texans at this point, showed up in Birmingham for the
>WFL's nationally televised game of the week knowing
>they were headed to Shreveport. They were without
>their head coach, who had been suspended for urging
>his players to boycott the move, and their
>quarterback, who decided to quit the team.
>Predictably, they lost 42-14.
>
>Three days later, a judge lifted the injunction,
>reasoning that a game featuring a bad, lame duck
>franchise with attendance issues wasn't likely to draw
>fans anyway. And off to Shreveport they went.
>
>So now you know more about the Houston Texans move to
>Shreveport than you ever wanted to.

Thank you, that's very helpful.

With your permission, I'd like to quote what you've written at the website, either anonymously or with whatever name or pseudoname you'd prefer.

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[> [> [> [> Re: Shreveport Steamer WFL -- Ian Winton, 22:06:13 07/03/20 Fri (98.240.106.40)


>
>Thank you, that's very helpful.
>
>With your permission, I'd like to quote what you've
>written at the website, either anonymously or with
>whatever name or pseudoname you'd prefer.

Glad to have contributed something useful.

You should feel free to use whatever you like and attribute it with our without my name.

You should also feel free to correct the typos.

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[> [> [> Re: Shreveport Steamer WFL -- No name, 13:47:37 07/22/21 Thu (70.59.85.94)

>>Charles - Just wondering if you are going to post what
>>looks to be that last helmet to complete the World
>>Football League page . Ian Winton pretty much
>>explained what the Sept 19th helmet was. We know they
>>played their first game in Shreveport without a logo
>>and then added the "S" at some point to finish the
>>season. Just curious :)
>
>Sorry, that one must have slipped my mind (along with
>a thousand other things, lol).
>
>I believe I had been trying to find a clear photograph
>of the Steamer helmet with the "S" logo and
>unfortunately there don't seem to be any in existence.
>The best photographs I've found seem to imply (or at
>least not rule out) the possibility that the "S" was
>slightly angled or 'italic':
>
>http://www.helmethut.com/WFL/WFLsteamersS.html
>
>Which is not the case with the alleged logo:
>
>https://www.sportslogos.net/logos/view/5818/Shreveport_
>Steamer/1974/Primary_Logo
>
>If anyone knows of a better photograph of one of the
>actual helmets obviously that would be very helpful to
>me.

https://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/GUD/WFL/controller/controller.php?action=teams-season&team_id=HS&year=1974

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[> [> [> Re: Shreveport Steamer WFL -- charles arey, 14:05:44 07/30/21 Fri (40.134.85.25)

Finally I found a decent photograph of the 1974 helmet which I think will enable me to add that one to the website:

https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/163540970_4083117131732774_8727842473372632610_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=973b4a&_nc_ohc=cPFDmWZg_LAAX_R2x5s&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&oh=5293e5554cd1f2d54c309bb12765e607&oe=61294DFD

The "S" is clearly italic and a bit different in shape from the one shown at sportlogos.net and other places.

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[> [> [> [> Charlotte WFL 74 not 75 -- No name, 14:51:44 07/31/21 Sat (70.59.90.18)

your recent addition for Charlotte Hornets (black helmet white C) should be 1974 not 1975
thanks

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