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Wave 1 is over, the expansion that takes place in the early 90's which would of been where Carolina and Jacksonville came in yields in 4 teams that were leftovers from the old AFL.

Wave 2 coming up will essentially be the late 90's where the Texans would of come in as well as the Browns relocation to Baltimore to become the Ravens which then would of opened up a expansion slot where the new Cleveland Browns team assumes the identity of the old team there and something I wish the Tennessee Titans would do to give the Oilers back to Houston but they are skinflints.

So expect the following...

CAROLINA
JACKSONVILLE
ST LOUIS

and...

INDIANAPOLIS

The last team of Wave 1 and I've saved the team that essentially carried the old World Football League but here they were reduced to being ball carriers to the AFL's Miami Dolphins who were the dominant team at the time and essentially are 6 time Super Bowl champs because of the 5 year streak.

This however did not deter them from trying to usurp and acquired 3 of their best players in a massive signing boost to try and clinch their own AFL championship.... and yet fell in the final hurdle against the Oakland Raiders.... TWICE. This team was owned by John Basset as he sold his controlling share to another owner before trying again with the Bandits and yeah that went smoothly...

Well until this team tried to register their name to which it was denied so they had to change their name.... twice. Finally at the big unveiling of the new uniforms, everything went smoothly UNTIL the reveal of said uniforms where one simple mistake gave the team the most infamous sports botch in history for the....

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES

The dinguses in charge of the uniforms made a mistripe that literally gave them the reputation monkier of the Memphis Mistripes... originally their uniforms were straight up expys of the Browns and the Browns weren't happy at all forcing the uniforms to change and then the mistripe happened and they were like Oh.

They play in the NFC South against the Chiefs, the Vulcans and the Bucs.

5 hours ago, Bomba Tomba said:

Reminds me of the Battlehawks, who for me have the best look in the current XFL

I see these as the original Battlehawks.

Moving onto the 35th team of the NFL... an expansion deep in the heart of Texas although they had a harder time trying to win over those that aren't affliated with the Cowboys and the Oilers.... that team is.

SAN ANTONIO WINGS

The Wings are amongst a number of teams affected by San Antonio's push for the Alamo in terms of marketing since that city made it law to put it in... the Spurs are also affected as well, as for the wings they are placed in the AFC West alongside a whole colorful selection of rivals including their close rivals Denver.

+1 for the Bret Hart reference @Bomba Tomba

Do the So Cal Sun take advantage of the pink trend? Yes they were one of the first teams to do so when the color became new at the peak of the 2000's... they were previously a white helmet team with purple and orange and felt that they were missing a signature theme and so they decided to take advantage of hot pink.

Rival fans often call them the So Cal Barbies

Colorful was the theme for this wave of expansions as now it's time I went down to California to finally address the most unique color scheme in all of football....

THE SO CAL SUN

The Southern California Sun aka in shortened terms the So Cal Sun are a side that got screwed initially by to the shock of no one the Oakland Raiders whom didn't want their OTHER hated rival to join them and the Chargers in the NFL so for years they got shafted until the gentlemen's agreement was made and they were able to get in.

From the city of Anaheim, the Sun have been incredibly loyal for a number of decades even when they have stadium issues or when they had to deal with that cheap corrupt bastard Arte Moreno... the Sun are always loyal to Anaheim for they also have the most unique scheme in all of the NFL.

With So Cal Magneta and So Cal Orange as their main colors whilst adopting Hot Pink as So Cal Pink as their tertiary color alongside So Cal Silver for a scheme that is unique in the NFC.... even the Vikings couldn't complain.

EXPANSION TIME!

And so we begin with a history lesson... back in the AFL there were 16 teams that existed and when the merger happened with the NFL, only 12 of those teams were able to join... the other 4 were left in the lurch and the NFL then had a gentlemen's agreement to add in the remaining 4 teams in an expansion to bring the league up to 36 teams with equal rates for all.

Well that was the plan at least.

However a lawsuit defeated the NFL's plan when said lawsuit made by Gary Davidson one of the original AFL founders argued successfully that the 12 AFL teams that wanted to merge with the NFL were wrong and that they needed to pay the financial costs that would of occured from such a merger.

All the teams were affected and 2 of them went bankrupt as a result... thankfully this occured in 1992 where the NFL essentially gifted those sides that went bankrupt with free rebrands.... the first was the Vulcans and the second was this team:

PORTLAND THUNDER

The 1992 WLAF World Bowl winning Orlando Thunder relocated to Portland, took over affairs from there and whilst they did play in horrible lime green for a few years... eventually they adopted a forest green and used that from now on... they went with the wrap around helmet from the 2000's at the time with their fierce rivals the Seahawks.

Portland is the only team in the league to have colored numbers in both home and road sets and they have royal blue pants as alt wear.

Alright everybody before we get to wave 1 of the expansions, I want to say thanks for being with me as we got to 32.

The teams coming up will be legacy WFL that never got in with the nfl/afl merger

The last team for now because 32 is a brilliant number to cap off.... and so we head back to Florida to find a team that in need decided to do something quite different... hire a third party to design their next uniform, what they got was something unexpected and exciting.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS

In 2020 Torch Creative made history by becoming the first third party designers to an NFL team... their idea was to re-create the Creamsicles but add touches to the previous uniform set so that is what they did.... found a new orange and red and redesigned Bucco Bruce to be more intimidating.

((I love the logo when it first dropped and I wanted to finally use it in a concept involving the Bucs, I didn't want to merge them with the Bandits again nor did I want to make the Pewters although a Pewter centric Bruce sounds interesting))

3 hours ago, Silver_Star said:

This was their 1987-1989 look

Yes and in this timeline, they won 5 Super Bowls back to back with this look which is why they kept it and reverted back when given the option.

With the merger of the NFL and the AFL into a new league.... 30 teams were formed BUT there was an agreement between the two to add two new expansion teams to turn it into a 32 team league and now that first team was announced.

Team 31 goes to Seattle but it ain't to the storm.... oh no....

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS

The Seahawks have been put into the AFC and have been in the AFC since their first season and they have been a colorful addition... the classic tale of Nikeification where a large logo on the helmet, the wrap around and the bright neon :censored:ing green has now been a staple of the northwest since the 2000's and it's not changing anytime soon.

If anything the new Pac 12 would be a conference 4 grouping instead of a power 5 team.

1 hour ago, SpidersReorg said:

 

I'll wait and let you know.

 

In the meantime, can you post an updated imgur link?

Since you asked very nicely, I shall oblige... but be warned, the next 2 teams are in here so you and pretty much anyone else is going to be spoiled.

https://imgur.com/a/Fh44HF5

Wait for it to load or can you use the imgur link?

And finally the 30th team and in this continunity there is only one dominant force out there.... according to Yinzers.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS

One of the all dominant NFL sides of all.... their 5 Super Bowls ties them with the Patriots, the 49ers and the Dolphins.. their legendary feuds with the Minnesota Vikings in the 70's rose the legend of the Steel Curtain.... apart from having a bus leading them to a title against Arizona, they have been trying for YEARS to get back on top.

The only thing I did was to fix the numbers via Chicago as it was long overdue.

And with that 30 teams have been made.... the next two are going to be the expansion teams for when the National League merged with the Athletic League.

Well I would say things would proceed normally in Super Bowl terms.... and everything was fine and dandy until the :censored:ing Patriots traded a metric :censored:ton of picks to Cleveland for Bill and Brady.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS

What is known today as the New England Tom Brady trade was at the time considered the most controversal trade of that time... Robert Kraft saw $$$$ in his eyes when Bill and Tom won 2 Super Bowls with the Cleveland Browns and at the time the pairing was fresh and new so Kraft sacked his coach and personally organised the trade that saw Bill and Tom take their talents and over the years transformed the New England Patriots into basically the same Navy and Silver bastards that won 5 Super Bowls.

Now that Tom has retired for good and rode his white horse into the Sunset... the Patriots ditch the Navy and returned to the Blue and employ a Unitard look that works and yes they have Silver pants on the side.

Moving on from safety... we has a team that never changes... from the land of cheese.

GREEN BAY PACKERS

Packers still remain as they have ever been except that they have 4 super bowls to their name... the Packers dominated the first two Super Bowls and as an aftermath of that dominance, the NFL and the AFL had a public spat which caused the Super Bowl to be suspended for roughly 10+ years until both leagues merged mooting the spat... the solution to come up for this was to acknowledge both NFL and AFL champion as that year's super bowl winner.

1970: New York Jets and Baltimore Colts

1971: Dallas Cowboys and Baltimore Colts

1972: New York Jets and Baltimore Colts
1973: Miami Dolphins and Washington Commanders

1974: Oakland Raiders and Minnesota Vikings

1975: Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers

1976: Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers

1977: Oakland Raiders and Minnesota Vikings

1978: Denver Broncos and Minnesota Vikings

1979: New York Jets  and Pittsburgh Steelers

1980: San Diego Chargers and Pittsburgh Steelers

Then everything proceeded as normal from 1981.

Next up is the safe option... for all those present.

WASHINGTON COMMANDERS

Washington is here... the all dominant pigskins, took part in the greatest super bowl of all time in 1992 where they took on the Miami Dolphins in one of the greatest showings of the game itself but there had to be a loser and they were the unfortuate chaps to do it.

Miami Dolphins went on to win 5 straight super bowls as I stated before... Don Shula was a beast and it took 20 years before Bill Belichek did it with the Pats.

1 hour ago, the_grateful_ted said:

Maybe he wanted to make an original concept

Maybe

Swing and a miss on an opportunity on making a London Monarchs.

Next up in the series is the team from New York that is a major player in the athletic... and no its not New England yet.

NEW YORK JETS

The Jets were a major athletic conference juggernaut winning a total of 3 championships before the NFL-AFL merger... they still went through the bad years of the uniforms, the mismanagement and the ridicule... yet this uniform I designed for the USFL thread still works here because it's a heck of a lot better than their current uniforms although props for bringing back the sack exchange uniforms which I personally see as a big win for the Rodgers led Jets.

No Panda mascot?

Anyway the next 8 batch of updates are going to be the last ones before the all important 32 league placement... so the last two are predetermined.

However what isn't determined is this next team because without their traditional rivals... they have been able to face off against the likes of the Bills, the Browns, the Steelers and more important their oldest rivals the Chiefs... however like in our reality, they do eventually move westward to become...

ARIZONA CARDINALS

In an ideal world, the Arizona Cardinals would of had Pat Tillman as a part time owner and something the fans would be proud of... a military hero coming back from Afganhistan without being cowardly murdered by someone in his own platoon... no the spinless :censored: would of been executed as a traitor.

Anyway the Pat Tillmans still remain Cardinals best look and right now with a uniform change that is literally mid... that and I don't know how to add flake to helmets, I went with the total embrace of Arizona's flag.... and long may you not see silver and black ever again.

On 8/4/2023 at 9:06 PM, qckgnc said:

*Internal Screaming* 

Seriously, I appreciate a good WFL/Hornets concept when I can find one. Would add that Honey Gold home jersey to my collection.

The Honey Gold is something you don't see in football or pretty much anywhere that isn't Georgia Tech.