London Monarchs

You can't even get in there.

We'd get overrun by fans of the Barcelona Dragons or the London Monarchs or the Frankfurt Galaxy if the World League of American Football was still around.

By the way, Westy, I miss seeing you on, uh, the, the Falcon, uh, broadcast.

Uh, there was a day and time when I would be able to get home from church, turn on the Falcons game- And anytime there was a, an extra point or a goal line play or a field goal, I could look up there behind the goalpost and see Westy sitting in the front row with some hot woman, and it seemed to be a different woman every time.

You then only have the other problem of everyone's got their teams already, and it's more of an American thing to move teams and buy into your city regardless of what team comes.

We're a much smaller country, so that's difficult for people to necessarily shake off that Dallas Cowboys jersey that they've got and suddenly buy into the London Monarchs, let's say for instance, just to use the old name of the, uh, the NFL Europe team.

So that would be something that would take time, as Jacksonville have found out.

That's a home game they had this week.

It wasn't regular season games like they have now.

But the London Monarchs would play there and they'd have kind of these friendlies almost that franchises would come across and take part in.

So it did still happen.

It's just it's done better at Spurs.

I don't know.

We were looking for the London Monarchs.

The London Monarchs.

They do love their monarchs.

So he plays with them in 95, has those two practice squad years with the Jets and Panthers.

the

casing.

We talked about the London Monarchs and their love for that.

giving up a home match to play somewhere else.

But from the point, the original World League, the London Monarchs, Scottish Claymores and the rest was originally set up to be a kind of worldwide league.

There was going to be an American division and a European division

and eventually

Yeah, it was the Barcelona Dragons.

It was the London Monarchs.

The Silly Nannies.

Yeah, the Frankfurt Galaxy.

They learn about these players.

There was a time in 1990 when we were...

when we were doing this NFL Europe stuff, and the quarterback at the London Monarchs was a guy named Stan Gilbaugh.

Stan Gilbaugh became a legend in London in 1990 because he brought the London Monarchs a championship.