TEXAS MAVERICKS FOOTBALL CLUB: Welcome

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The Texas Mavericks will be announcing open workouts & play concept training for anyone who might be interested in making their way back to the gridiron in preparation for the spring 2010 season.  Interested players should send in all available contact information to info@TXMAVERICKS.com to be added to the Mavericks prospect contact list.

Signed up players will receive information, updates and annoucement of the off season training program to include times, dates and locations for all events & programs.  These announcements will only be delivered to members of the prospect list.

The Texas Mavericks aren’t the first program ever to try and provide San Antonio with a minor league football team you could cheer for.  The San Antonio Chargers constantly went undefeated in Texas league play through the mid ‘90’s.  The San Antonio Stampede were a perennial Texas league championship contender from 1998 – 2002.  The San Antonio Thunder reached 5,000 in attendance on more than one occasion in 2001.  But the most successful non-NFL program to call the Alamo City home was the San Antonio Toros.

Competing with teams from Odessa, El Paso, Beaumont and Texarkana, the Toros started out in a semipro, Texas Professional Football League.  By 1967 the when they joined the “Pro Caliber” Continental Football League, where the Toros were a dominating power house of a football team!  They even drew good TV rating when games were broadcast locally, while Alamo Stadium boasted a packed out crowds.  Toros team owner Henry Hight maintained the program for almost a decade, through folding leagues and a carousel of opponents. 

Passionately innovative and opportunistic, Hight resembled NFL team owners of the 1920’s creating interest and revenues year in and year out.  The Toros still hold the third place spot for largest single game attendance with 22,468 at Alamo Stadium.  This measure of success is the bar that the Texas Mavericks Organization reach for every day.  With today’s technologies in media and breakthrough in sports training and facilities, and the help of a market starved for professional football, the Mavericks are primed and poised for the opportunity. 

Have Toros fans from the ’60’s and ‘70’s finally found a successor?  Is there finally a program for the next generation of football fans in San Antonio? 

Email all questions or comments to Maverickschalktalk@yahoo.com