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As requested by @BengalErnst, this is going to be a thread covering the USFL, the XFL, the AAF and the AFL so there will be no NFL teams of the like.... probably for the best too if I have to be honest. Figuring out how to do this was something I've been meaning to do since I'm technically coming full circle with the NCAA Arena Football league, that is professionally run, well at least run in my specifics per say. To begin with as I did with the UAXF thread that might come back one day as that HAS 2 teams left so for those that remember that thread, then you know what team comes first. ORLANDO APOLLOS Now then figuring out new colors is something I didn't expect to discover when it comes to the Apollos but Navy wasn't something I considered part of the identity although it does work as a canvas for the bright orange and the white.... however as @Bomba Tomba commented recently creating an indigo that mixes purple AND navy together works just as well and since we are in Arena Football terms, I have decided to give the Apollos an alternate set of orange pants that they can use because as much Indigo I would like to see on the field, orange works well. The Helmet now has the pant striping as well which is one of the changes I made alongside the new indigo. PLUS with this scheme they look like the Frankfurt Galaxy and everyone knows how much of a :censored: yeah look the Galaxy had.

Recently, I've read through UniWatch's "What if the AFL Never Existed" series and I was inspired to do a concept based on that series. Without further ado, let's begin the concept thread BACKGROUND The year is 1959, Dallas native Lamar Hunt desires a professional football team in his home city, his request to move the Chicago Cardinals to Dallas in 1959 is rejected, but the NFL instead grants him an expansion franchise which he would name the Dallas Texans (which I've done a concept on over here) and they would begin play for the 1962 season, the Cardinals would end up moving to St. Louis just like in our universe, but in this alternate reality the Cardinals stay in St. Louis which means that the Cardinals don't ever move to Phoenix and the Rams never have a stint in St. Louis and are forever LA's team, as for Phoenix they eventually get an "expansion team" in the Phoenix Firebirds who's franchise gets started in the World Football League that merges with the NFL before the 1980 season, and because the Texans stay in Dallas and never move to Kansas City, that means there's no Dallas Cowboys around. So that how does Kansas City get a team? Well, the NFL decides to expand into the Kansas City and Denver markets in 1975, and Kansas City's expansion franchise would be owned by the Kauffman family who already owned the Royals baseball franchise at the time, so the Kauffman's decide to synchronize the Royals between their baseball and football franchises, and thus the Kansas City Football Royals were founded. BRANDING And here are the primary and a couple of the main wordmarks/insignias for the football Royals, the logo and insignia were part of a modified Fiverr commission, I assembled the wordmarks and the font used was Valerius Expanded I created so many extra wordmarks and insignias that they had to be on separate slides FIELD AND UNIFORMS The Royals would play their home games at GEHA Field which is most the recent sponsor to own the naming rights to the football Royals stadium which in this universe, looks like Arrowhead but with blue seats and never once having the name "Arrowhead". ROYALS FOOTBALL STADIUM NAMING RIGHTS HISTORY Royals Field (1975-1977) IBM Field (1978-1987) Pizza Hut Field (1988-1996) Nextel Field (1997-2004) Sprint Field (2005-2008) Verizon Field (2009-2019) GEHA Field (2020-Present) The uniform set has 7 total uniforms, with the Powder Blue, Gold, and Black being a tribute to the baseball Royals' powder blue alternates, the Royals turn ahead the clock uniforms in the 90s, and the black alternates in the 2000s. UPDATE: As per request of @MJWalker45 I have changed the jersey numbers from Valerius Expanded to a more legible font in Superstar M54. And here are a couple of extra fields, that were designed these include home fields with gold, powder blue, and black endzones, plus a Super Bowl field. I had a lot of fun designing this and with all these new alternate history concepts being on the front page, I thought it would be a good idea to strike while the iron was hot and drop this one. Comments and critique are welcome as always!

Normally I hate having to follow trends but considering the recent thread conclusion of @XrysD's USFL merger thread, I figured I try to do his what if the AFL didn't exist thread.... now I will tend to do things different, in my eyes the AFL team managed to find their way into the NFL but they went through the WFL to do so which makes things interesting per say and certain teams are going to exist in the place of the actual teams that did take place... for example there won't be any New York Stars but other teams do find a way. In establishing this version of a AFL-less NFL... certain teams and certain dynamics are iron-clad which means no Cowboys facing off against their enemies of the Eagles, Washington and the NY Giants, however did you know there was one team those three had a preference to play against because it fit into their schedules and travel costs were easy. And so to begin another dynamic topic, instead of taking a bold move, we begin with something safe. BALTIMORE COLTS To describe the Colts as safe.... we have to address the elephant in the room, Jim Irsay never took the team out of Baltimore during that faithful night... the authorities got wind of what he was doing and prevented the moving trucks from leaving the training facilities thus the law that prevented teams from leaving the city would of included the Colts and without the Colts leaving Baltimore, the CFL never did expand there and never established the Stallions that would of gone on to become the Allouettes. With the Colts, the Eagles, Washington and the Giants established in their own grouping, the Cowboys never did force the Colts into the AFL.