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The World Football League was born with swagger, ambition, and the kind of bold vision that made football fans sit up and pay attention. When the league launched with 12 teams in July 1974, its founder, Gary Davidson, confidently predicted a globe‑spanning operation, imagining franchises not only in American cities but also as far away…

In the mid-1970s, Cincinnati was humming with baseball glory from the Big Red Machine, football fans were cheering on the Bengals, and chili was being ladled over spaghetti like it was a food group. Ice hockey? That was about as familiar as surfing on the Ohio River. And yet, in 1974, the World Hockey Association…

Picture this: It’s the early 1970s. Bell-bottoms are flapping, disco is warming up in the wings, and hockey is a tidy little monopoly run by the NHL. Players earn modest salaries, owners call the shots, and the idea of a million-dollar contract sounds about as likely as a goalie scoring a hat trick. Click Here…