So many team names from the NFL Europe era: Cologne Centurians, Frankfurt Galaxy, Rhein Fire, Hamburg Sea Devils, Berlin Thunder, and Barcelona Dragons. Blast from the past playing those old Madden video games.
You know when an American involves naming a team when they have name a team describing their habitat alongside the animal, like “Sea Devils” or “Mountain Cats”
The Paris team changed their name to Musketeers, and Barcelona have moved from Rues to Estadi municipal Olympic de Terrassa, which is larger and closer to Barcelona, also Vienna were planning on moving as they weren't happy with the stadium last season. Apart from that then it's good.
The stadium in Wroclaw really is a sight to behold. It's also unique in that it's main purpose isn't any regular team sport played with a ball but speedway which is still very big in Poland.
I’m not really an American Football fan but I do think this is a good league for Germany and Central Europe. Rugby isn’t really popular in Central Europe so it’s good to have a second (more physical) form of football as an alternative to soccer.
I remember commenting on your video about the second tier of german football, wich featured the Rhein fire stadium. This league is so much fun! This year I bought season tickets for the very first time. Thank you for giving this league some well deserved exposure!
I can heartily recommend watching ELF games, if you're able to do so. The standard is very high, and it looks very much like the standard of the stadiums used are rising as well. My particular favourite is Wroclaw's stadium, I have a feeling that it is also used for the Polish round of Speedway GP. Honourable mentions go to the Milan Seamen (pfffff....) and the team formerly known as the Paris Saints. Vienna's ground looks tidy as well.
It's also worth mentioning that there is a pub integrated into the main stand of Stadion Hoheluft. Plus it's actually the 2nd oldest stadium in the league, the oldest one is the Stadion auf der Waldau in Stuttgart
He just be covering liga mx team stadiums, and college stadiums which are not designed particular for the sport. UACH and ITESM sport center being the only ones, maybe gaspar mass.
The track at Wroclaw isn't an athletics track, it's a Speedway circuit. Speedway is one of the most popular sports in Poland, and no other country has a bigger following of it than Poland. On a similar tangent, the 75000-seater Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, gets converted to a Speedway circuit once a year.
None of them are 'still operating', they all folded when the NFL Europe did. They're all second incarnations using the old teams name. Sorta like the Baltimore Colts using the name of the first Baltimore based NFL franchise that folded, before they moved to Indianapolis
@@narchia161 not true, the Frankfurt Galaxy is still the original team, around the time the NFL Europa folded a local group bought the Galaxy from the NFL and rebranded them as the Frankfurt Universe. Once the Galaxy trademark expired that group bought the name and logo and the Universe started rocking Galaxy throwback uniforms for a while, with the founding of the ELF the Universe rebranded back to the Galaxy.
@@supersasukemaniaconly half true. The Galaxy is a brand new franchise, and while you're right that the Universe is the successor to the old Galaxy, they are completely separate from the new one and relegated to GFL2 because the ELF Galaxy signed all their good players.
Very interesting mix of stadiums. I especially liked that you used my photo of Jahnsportpark. Luved it! And it's always great to see those little outdated stadiums from the GDR (Leipzig and Berlin).
The Vikings don’t play in the Generali Arena anymore. The football club has complained about the state of the pitch and kicked them out, right before a playoff game. Imagine that in any other sport.
@@steph8594 no they dont, karl Wurm said they are never ever going back to have a Cooperation with Austria Wien again After they kicked them out right before the semifinal game
FWIW, several ELF clubs are effectively phoenix clubs of old World League of American Football/NFL Europe/NFL Europa teams, specifically the Frankfurt Galaxy, Rhein Fire, Hamburg Sea Devils, Berlin Thunder, and Barcelona Dragons. When the ELF formed, it sought out and received permission from the NFL to use the names of the clubs mentioned above.
@@BroadwayJoe99 the Galaxy technically isn't a Phoenix club, after the NFL Europa disbanded the Frankfurt Galaxy rebranded to the Frankfurt Universe. Once the Trademark expired on the Galaxy name and logo, the Universe bought it and reverted back to the Galaxy name and branding. Then joined ELF as a founding club from the German league.
I find it interesting that a few of the team names, including the Barcelona Dragons, the Frankfurt Galaxy and the Rhein Fire (I know there are a few others, but I can't recall them offhand) were former NFL Europe clubs which were allowed to use those names following an agreement with the NFL.
Paris Saints got renamed in Paris Musketeers, Barcelona Dragons left Reus. I'm not sure but Hamburg Sea Devils have a 2nd Venue (Volksparkstadion) for bigger matches.
@@TheWideWorldofStadiums no worries mate, its a young competition where a lot of things change each season. Good to see someone make a video about it 😁 such a weird variety of stadiums
You should do the stadiums of the GFL (German Football League) next. That's the league I play for and I think we have some of the greatest fans on earth!
Since 1979 a German Championship is held. For European Football a European Wide Championship is held since 1986 in different variations. The ELF is an independent Organisation and not incorporated to other European or National Organisations.
We have three different sized branches of Lidl near us. Naturally we call them little Lidl, middle Lidl and big Lidl. Confusingly, any unsold stuff from the middle of little Lidl and middle Lidl ends up in the much bigger middle of big Lidl.
Hey, I really like your work, especially that Aussie humor. and IPL is just around the corner and their venues are also announced. When can we expect video on it?
@@TheWideWorldofStadiums Yeah sure mate! You made one abt SA20 league so i thought you will surely make of IPL but It's just less than a week away so i was just getting curious. PS:- it's just a short story, how i find your channel? As a regular viewer of Cricket, i found Australian cricket stadium quite different from other countries. They are huge in all ways, whether it's seating capacity, shear size or just their presence with relatively small population. England surely have most iconic grounds but they are not that grand, India have good big stadium but they are not that iconic but down under they have both, they are grand and iconic. So, later i found out that most of their ground are multiple purpose, they are not just for cricket. And found this brilliant idea, it's saves money, space and time. Then i found your channel and your content help me a lot to understand abt different sport cultures around the world, their government, audience and their impact. I always found rebuild/repurposed stadiums more fascinating, it shows power of time. It's my saying that a lot can be said by a sport/league/country/culture just by looking at their stadiums.
I only remember Rhine fire and Barcelona Dragons as still going from the old European league, the Scottish Claymores and the London Lions are no longer around, I might be wrong and some of the other teams might be originals, I just can't remember them.
Tottenham would be the obvious choice based purely on the stadium set up but it would have to fit around Spurs . That makes scheduling tricky Interestingly Rugby was on show at Tottenham when Saracens played Harlequins at the weekend to a full house and I think they used the normal field not the gridiron one !! I still struggle with them setting up an NFL team or teams in Europe. Most NFL fans have their team already and once the novelty wears off these teams would struggle if they don’t win many games and or don’t get some local boys playing . Now I know a few Rugby lads who I think could play but transitioning is tough to do If they don’t win immediately watch the stadiums they play in shrink every season
That's because the field was repurposed as an American Football field in 2016, the stadium itself is older, it was used by the MÁV Előre SC (railway worker's football club) in the past.
In ELAF, are there fields 100 meters goal-line to goal-line or 100 yards? Is the line to gain 10 meters, or 10 yards? BTW the Dragons nd Galaxy were founding members of the World League of Americam Football (what? No Tokyo Tech? No Sydney Kangaroos? No Peking Ducks? No Cairo Pharohs? No Tehran Touchdowns? No Jeruselum Jihaddis? (Using the Jewish name for the city combined with Arabic word for "Warriors") No Johanasberg Unity? No Rio Rush? No Mexico City Aztecs? No Montreal Machine? (another original WLAF team) If the World League was truly a world league, it could have teams such as above? At least it's now called European so those teams seem unlikely.
Summer league nba and ELF get me through the summer until football returns and baseball starts the postseason. It has more parody this year but the german and Austrian teams are way better. Still cool to see Europeans getting into the shit. They gobbled up basketball but for some reason the gridiron is a slower process
But why an european league? I mean, we still have our own american football league in germany, the GFL. I think a european league will downgrade the attractivity of the national leagues :/
ELF is mostly a Central European league. Yes, no doubt it will downgrade the national leagues if it sits above the national leagues. But it is probably only detrimental to GFL.
@@justinress2782 the founding teams where (Colonge Centurians, Frankfurt Galaxy, and Hamburg Devils) then Rhien Fire was the first expansion franchise. So the first 4 German ELF teams where a continuation of the original NFL Europa squads.
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