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The UFL is marching into its second season of existence, and the public focus surrounding the league is fixated on topics such as possible expansion and collaboration with the NFL, rather than whether ...
Jim Gaines, the fabled Memphis record producer and studio engineer who died in November, was described Sunday in generally down-to-earth terms. Gaines, it was said, was a fan of football and catfish.
None of them signed, but the new league would earn credibility a few weeks later when Larry Csonka, Paul Warfield and Jim Kiick ... relocated to Memphis and was renamed the Southmen.) ...
Merely 12,396 came to the next home game, a 46-15 victory over the Memphis Southmen, whose lineup included three former Miami Dolphins: Larry Csonka, Paul Warfield, and Jim Kiick. The Bell won nine of ...
The WFL’s biggest splash was made by the Memphis Southmen, owned by Canadian television ... Bassett signed away Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Paul Warfield from the two-time Super Bowl champion ...
With splashy signings such as the Miami Dolphins’ Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Paul Warfield ... When the WFL died, the Vulcans and Memphis Southmen sought to be absorbed into the NFL, but ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped ...
Growing up in Memphis ... (After one season, the Southmen were renamed the Grizzlies, and signed fading Dolphins stars Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Paul Warfield. After two seasons, the league ...
was the Memphis Southmen. With big checks, that organization acquired NFL Miami Dolphins stars Larry Csonka, a bruising fullback; Paul Warfield, a fleet receiver; and Jim Kiick, a versatile halfback.
running back Jim Kiick and receiver Paul Warfield -- would play for the Memphis Southmen of the World Football League starting in 1975. Before departing, the trio would try to help the Dolphins ...
Their last names were all you ever needed to know: Csonka and Kiick. They were a team within ... $3 million to play for a team called the Memphis Southmen. It was hard for Dolphin fans to take.