The Blue Devils were looking to repeat in 1991, and they made two key trades to help them do that, acquiring RB Thurman Thomas in a preseason trade and RB Emmitt Smith after week 1. Adding those two Hall of Fame backs to another Hall of Famer, Barry Sanders, gave them an unstoppable three-headed rushing attack, and they ran their way to the championship, winning it by 105 points over the second-place Steelers and becoming the only team to repeat as CFFL champions. There was a head-to-head championsip added in 1991, won by the Steelers.
There was a major shakeup of the league during the offseason. The Blue Devils folded as owner Dan Nahirniak went off to college. The Flyers changed their name for the third time in three years and became the Surge. There were three expansion teams added for the 1992 season: the Flying Squirrels, the Gators, and the Heat.
The 1992 season belonged to the Tigers. They set CFFL records for points in a season (1059), biggest margin of victory (269 points), and most wins in a season (13 regular-season wins, plus 3 more in the playoffs, for an overall record of 16-1, also a CFFL record). They also won the head-to-head championship.
There was another major shakeup of the league after the 1992 season. The Dolphins folded, and were replaced by the Broncos. The Flying Squirrels changed their name to the Invaders, the Wildcats became the Bears, and the Surge changed their name yet again, this time to the Predators.
The Tigers were looking to become the second team to repeat as CFFL Champions (after the 1990-91 Blue Devils), but they failed in their quest as the Predators won the championship in a close three-way battle with the Gators and Tigers. The Predators finished 33 points ahead of the second-place Gators and 49 points ahead of the third-place Tigers. The Steelers won the head-to-head championship for the second time in three years.
The stability of the league continued to be an issue with more franchise movement during the offseason. The Invaders folded during the 1992 season, leaving 7 teams in the league. The league contracted by another team when the Bears merged with the Steelers in January 1994. The CFFL would take 6 teams into the 1994 season, the smallest it had been since 1991.
The Tigers won their second CFFL championship in 1994, breaking the record for points in a season that they set in 1992, putting 1098 points on the board. They made it to the championship game, but fell to the Gators by 3 points.
The stability issue seemed to finally be put to rest as there were no changes in franchises between 1994 and 1995, the first time in the history of the league that that had happened. However, that turned out to be a false hope, as on November 5, 1995, the CFFL ceased operations, bringing an end to what is now called the "Old Skool era".
Then, after a decade-long absence, the CFFL was reborn in 2005, with 8 franchises. The teams are: the Baltimore Palookas, Boston Isotopes, Indianapolis Night Wolves, Kansas City Goatcheese, New York Bo-Aggies, Pittsburgh Hardcores, Las Vegas Crappers (a franchise descended from the Predators), and the Northampton Tigers (the only remaining original franchise from the 1990 season). The scoring of the league was changed, along with the focus. The head-to-head champion is considered the CFFL Champion, and there is a franchise championship, which awards points based on on-and-off-field performance. The Tigers won their third CFFL championship in 2005, defeating Pittsburgh 114-94. Baltimore won the first-ever franchise title. In an extremely positive sign of stability, all eight teams are returning in 2006.
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