Everything about San Antonio Texans totally explained
The
San Antonio Texans were a
Canadian football team that played in the
Alamodome for the
1995 CFL season. They had relocated from
Sacramento, California, where the team had been called the
Sacramento Gold Miners. The team still had the same ownership in
Fred Anderson and the same staff like GM Dan Bass and Head Coach
Kay Stephenson.
Ironically, in the
1993 season there were supposed to be two U.S. teams in the
CFL with Sacramento and
San Antonio; however, the original San Antonio franchise would fold when their owner, Larry Benson, ran out of money and was forced to withdraw before playing a down.
Franchise history
On the field
In their third season in the
CFL and their first as the Texans, the team had the second-highest scoring offence in the league, which was led by veteran quarterback
David Archer. The franchise finished the
1995 CFL season with a 12-6 record, finishing in second place of the South Division, which sent them to their first playoff berth.
In the playoffs, the San Antonio Texans soundly defeated the
Birmingham Barracudas, 52-9, in the Southern Semi-Final at the
Alamodome. However, their playoff run and the franchise's last season would end after falling to the eventual
champion Baltimore Stallions in the Southern Final by a score of 21-11.
San Antonio's two backup quarterbacks had connections to the
Buffalo Bills. The first was 45-year-old former Bills quarterback
Joe Ferguson, who had retired five years earlier. The second was
Jimmy Kemp, son of Bills quarterback (and politician)
Jack Kemp. Head coach Kay Stephenson was Jack Kemp's backup on the Bills squad in 1968 and served as head coach of the Bills in 1985; both stints were widely unsuccessful.
Off the field
The San Antonio Texans had respectable attendance with the average being 15,855. In one of their games at the
Alamodome, attendance reached 22,043, in a 38-32 loss to the
Stampeders.
However, at the end of the '95 season, the CFL decided to fold the
Birmingham Barracudas, the
Memphis Mad Dogs and the
Shreveport Pirates. In addition, when it was announced that
Art Modell would move the
Cleveland Browns to
Baltimore, Stallions owner Jim Speros knew his franchise wouldn't survive the
NFL and moved the team to
Montreal.
The end
With all this going on, it looked like Fred Anderson's franchise would be the only U.S.-based team in the CFL, again. However, Anderson didn't want to go that path and decided to fold the San Antonio Texans after the '95 season, which ended the
CFL's attempt to expand to the United States.
Malcolm Frank was the only remaining player from the team playing in the
Canadian Football League with the
Edmonton Eskimos in 2006. He retired after that season.
Players and builders of note
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