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The Texans set up offices in the Mercantile National Bank Building, while Jerry Foss headquartered the AFL offices out of Dallas, as well.
The 1961 American Football League All-League Team was selected by AFL players and published by the Sporting News.
He later had a brief stint with the Austin Wranglers of the Arena Football League (AFL) and then tried his hand at rugby league, playing for the Jacksonville Axemen in Jacksonville, Florida and then the Burleigh Bears in Australia.
In addition to the NFL, ten players were signed to AFL teams: Bobby Keyes (Dallas), Terrell Browden (Colorado), James Clark (Georgia), Jerry Turner (Las Vegas), William Mayes (Las Vegas), Herman Bell (Detroit) and Ernest Ross (Detroit).
He made his senior AFL debut for the club in round one of the 2011 season, playing a total of 17 games in his debut season, mainly as a wingman, and also received a nomination for the AFL Rising Star award.
:For the former VFL footballer, see Arthur Fox, Jr..
The AFL has used the Auskick program the introduce Australian rules football into schools and communities around the country to increase the AFL's profile in areas that traditionally support other football codes such as New South Wales and Queensland.
After consulting with a Sheikh, Houli decided to break his Ramadan fast for three days during the physical endurance tests at the AFL Draft Camp; this allowed him to record sufficient times to impress recruiters and be a viable selection in the draft.
Travis Boak, AFL footballer currently contracted to the Port Adelaide Power
After spending the first seven rounds of the 2000 season playing in the WAFL with South Fremantle, Bootsma was selected to make his debut in Round 8 against Collingwood at the Docklands Stadium in a rare (for AFL) Monday night game.
The non-profit also sponsors public addresses by prominent progressive public intellectuals including Barbara Ehrenreich, Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Frances Fox Piven, Lani Guinier, John Conyers, Barney Frank, Rashid Khalidi, former AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, and Michael Parenti.
Some of the Politicians, like Rich Salzer, went on to play for the Chicago Bruisers and the other charter AFL teams, the Denver Dynamite, Pittsburgh Gladiators, and Washington Commandos.
The ground is home to North Albany Football and Sporting Club, Albany Football Club and Collingwood Park Cricket Club and has hosted several large events such as Crusty Demons's West Coast Carnage Tour and in 2008 hosted an AFL NAB Challenge Cup match between West Coast Eagles and Collingwood.
Craig Willis (born 1954) is an Australian announcer who has appeared as the voice of many of Network Ten / One HD & Seven Network's AFL Grand Final, Anzac Day, Dreamtime At The 'G and major Finals Broadcasts/Telecasts. He is known to many as the 'voice of the AFL'
Joining him in presenting a variety of segments are Martin Bowerman, Frank 'Tommo' Thompson, Gary Howard, former Miss Universe contestant Kimberley Busteed radio personality Dean Miller, former AFL player for the Brisbane Lions Richard Champion and winner of the 5th Australian version of the reality series The Mole Liz Cantor.
He shared the starting job with Ed Rutkowski, Kay Stephenson and Tom Flores in 1968 while long-time starter and former AFL MVP Jack Kemp was out with an injury.
Playing mainly as a full-back, Glass is considered one of the best players in his position in the AFL, having been named in the All-Australian team on four occasions, including as captain of the 2012 team.
His school football was for Lockridge Senior High School where he played alongside future AFL player's Garth Taylor, Brett Johnson and Dwayne Simpson.
Gary Moorcroft (born 16 April 1976) is a former Australian rules football player for the Essendon and Melbourne Demons in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Leading AFL player manager Ricky Nixon also started his playing career at Golden Square before playing VFL football with Carlton, St Kilda and Hawthorn.
In one of TISM's many references to Australian Football League football, the liner notes, which chronicle the rise, fall and disbanding of TISM, and the band members individual exploits around the world, were credited to E.J. Whitten, argued by some to be the greatest AFL player of all time; a picture of Whitten appeared on the cover of the EP Gentlemen, Start Your Egos (1991).
Greeves was a premiership player for Geelong and the first winner of the Brownlow Medal for the VFL's Fairest and Best Player.
Gieschen (with the now former Head of Coaching for umpires, Rowan Sawers) has been acknowledged by the AFL (memorandum from Mark Evans, AFL Football Operations Manager, 30th October, 2013) as "...the longest serving umpire coach/manager combination in the history of the AFL. They have overseen a period of great improvement in the professionalism and advancement of umpiring programs and the outstanding performance of umpires and officials in Finals and Grand Finals."
In 2005 he signed with the Georgia Force, on the first day of the AFL's free agency signing period, where he rejoined former teammates and coaches from Dallas, Offensive coordinator Steve Thonn, WR/LB Dialleo Burks and WR/DB Luke Leverson.
Before an AFL game in Perth on May 29, 2009, Richmond footballer Ben Cousins gave the finger in the direction of a camera in the changerooms.
Since winning the National Australia Bank-sponsored AFL Rising Star Award, Selwood has been involved in several promotions for the bank, in an ambassadorial role and in several television advertisement appearances.
Karen Nussbaum (born April 25, 1950) is the executive director of Working America, a community affiliate of the AFL-CIO.
Roberts-Thomson is a rarity in AFL as he grew up playing rugby union as a contemporary of Wallaby Phil Waugh at Sydney Church of England Grammar School.
She is a Union Representative, who specializes in contract negotiation and administration, for AFL-CIO unions such as the United Auto Workers, OPEIU (Office and Professional Employees International Union), and currently the Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE, a healthcare affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers).
He also joined radio station Triple M in Melbourne to provide match commentary for its Australian rules football coverage on Friday nights with James Brayshaw and co-hosts Triple M Melbourne's The Hot Breakfast with fellow AFL media personalities Eddie McGuire and Mick Molloy.
He then made his AFL debut for Fremantle in Round 7 of the 2009 AFL season at Carrara Stadium against Carlton, as a replacement for the injured Ryan Crowley.
Increasingly obsessed with international affairs and the Soviet Union, Woll served as an AFL delegate to the International Federation of Trade Unions conference in 1937 and to the International Labor Organization's conference in 1938.
In the 1800s the site was home to Turner Hall, and in 1881 the world's first labor union, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions (later to become the AFL and part of the AFL-CIO) had its founding conference at the site.
Also hailing from Mt. Vernon is 13 year veteran AFL/NFL offensive lineman Bobby Maples.
On November 17 Occupy Texas State, Occupy Austin, the Texas State Employees Union/CWA, The American Federation of Teachers the ISO and the Texas AFL-CIO gathered at the Texas State Capitol to rally against the Texas Legislature's $6.6 billion cut on public education.
He broke a tie with Greg Hopkins for sole possession of 20th place on the AFL's all-time career interception list with his 27th that he returned 42 yards for a touchdown, his fifth career interception return for a touchdown with San Jose (sixth overall) giving him the team's all-time lead, against the Crush.
It is identical to a four-team McIntyre System playoff, first used by the Victorian Football League in Australia in 1931, originally called the Page-McIntyre system, after the VFL delegate, the Richmond Football Club's Secretary, Percy "Pip" Page, who had advocated its use.
In 2010, Hudson became the eleventh player to feature in a Toyota Memorable Moments advertisement with Stephen Curry and Dave Lawson, comically re-enacting his unsuccessful attempt to break Bob Pratt's goal-kicking record in the 1971 VFL Grand Final.
Seven years before its debut season in the AFL as Port Power, the then SANFL club Port Adelaide applied to become the AFL's first South Australian club.
Watts made his VFL debut in the 11th round of the 1937 VFL season against North Melbourne and kicked three goals.
Blease kicked a career high five goals against the Saints in round 20 of the 2012 AFL season, for this he was nominated for the 2012 AFL Rising Star, becoming only the ninth player to be nominated in two different seasons.
He was a member of the Joint AFL-CIO Commission that investigated labor conditions in the Central Zone in January 1949, and was a member of the US delegation to the conventions of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) held in Milan, in 1951; Vienna in (1955) and Tunis in 1957.
He is the brother of former AFL player Patrick Wiggins (with whom he now plays at Sunshine) and is married to Australian diver, Loudy Wiggins.
He supports five AFL teams, something he cops a lot of flack for: Essendon, Brisbane, Collingwood, Sydney and West Coast.
Of Italian descent and named in the VFL/AFL Italian Team of the Century in 2007, Alessio made his debut in 1992, and was renowned as one of Essendon's great ruckmen.
He spent his first eight campaigns in the American Football League (AFL) with the Houston Oilers (1962–1965) and Miami Dolphins (1966–1969).
Also, for special events like concerts or AFL football games extra trains can be originated this way.
The game was between Melbourne and Hawthorn and the game was described as the most epic played at VFL Park, with Hawthorn winning from a goal kicked after the siren, by Gary Buckenara.
Landmarks of Wendouree include the Minerdome, the home of the Ballarat Miners and Ballarat Rush; the Ballarat Showgrounds, where the annual Ballarat Show is held; Eureka Stadium, which is the home ground of the North Ballarat VFL (Australian Football) club, and has hosted pre-season Australian Football League matches, the former St Mary's Redemptorist Monastery, Stockland Wendouree shopping centre, and the Wendouree Centre for the Performing Arts.
He was also the player featured inside the cover of the booklets of stamps featuring the Swans released by Australia Post to commemorate the centenary of the VFL/AFL.
In 1992, post his VFL/AFL career, he joined ACTAFL club Ainslie as captain-coach, and promptly steered them to a flag, a success repeated the following year when he won the Alex Jesaulenko Trophy for best afield in the grand final.
The club has produced many VFL/AFL footballers, including Ross Dillon, Garry Lyon and Brett Deledio.
The ground had a significant VFL/AFL history, having been the host venue for both the VFL Grand Final (1901) and the night premiership series (1952–1971).
Grantley Fielke (b. 1962), former Australian rules footballer who played for West Adelaide in the SANFL and for both Collingwood and the Adelaide Crows in the VFL-AFL between 1979 and 1997.
In 1912, McClelland became president of the Melbourne Football Club, a position he relinquished when elected to the presidency of the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1926, succeeding Baldwin Spencer.