Before the NFL routinely played regular-season games in Europe in 2007, there was NFL Europe. And before there was NFL Europe, there was the World League of American Football (WLAF), which would ...

The WLAF was a spring league backed by the NFL with the aim of developing talent and growing the game overseas. It opened play on March 23, 1991, with six teams in the United States, three in Europe ...

Only eight National Football League players, including Kansas City quarterback Mike Elkins, will play this spring in the initial World League of American Football season. Only four NFL teams assigned ...

In the beginning came Genesis, which, unfortunately for the Ohio Glory, was an early sign of the fallen World League of American Football to come. A footnote in sports history was written 21 years ago ...

NFL Europe is one of those “Oh, right!” things in sports history. Without prompting, you probably wouldn’t easily remember it existed. The league lasted a surprisingly long time for something that ...

Dedrick Dodge has two Super Bowl rings — not bad for a guy who was working at an Anheuser-Busch plant after his Florida State career. So how did Dodge go from being passed over by every NFL team on ...

Before the NFL routinely played regular-season games in Europe in 2007, there was NFL Europe. And before there was NFL Europe, there was the World League of American Football (WLAF), which would ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Dedrick Dodge has two Super Bowl rings – not ...