1974 World Football League season
The 1974 World Football League season was the first season of the World Football League. Twelve teams began the inaugural 1974 season, which launched July 10 and lasted 19 weeks with no bye week. The league doubled up the week of Labor Day by playing four games over the course of three weeks on a Wednesday, Monday (Labor Day), Friday, Wednesday schedule, giving the WFL teams 20 games each. Two teams, the Detroit Wheels and Jacksonville Sharks dropped out and folded after fourteen weeks, with the New York Stars and Houston Texans relocating to other markets (Charlotte and Shreveport respectively) during the season. Portland and Detroit played a week 9 regular season game in London, Ontario at Little Stadium. The season culminated in World Bowl 1 on December 5, 1974, won by the Birmingham Americans. 1974 season Final standings W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PCT= Winning Percentage, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against Notes: (a) Jacksonville and Detroit folded after 14 games; each week thereafter, the teams that had games scheduled against those teams played each other. (b) Shreveport Steamer began the season as Houston Texans. (c) Charlotte Hornets began season as New York