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| Founded | 1969 |
|---|---|
| Based in | Toronto, Ontario |
| League | NFL |
| Conference | Eastern |
| Division | Atlantic |
| Team history | Toronto Natives 1969-present |
| Team colors | Orange, Magenta, Brown |
| Nickname(s) | Natives |
| Head coaches | Parker Knox |
| General managers | Gina Imlach |
| Owner(s) | Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment |
| NFL Championship wins | N/A |
| Mascot(s) | Wendat |
| Home field(s) | Sears Coliseum |
The Toronto Sphas are an professional football team based within Toronto. The Sphas compete inside the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The club's home games are held in downtown Toronto, specifically at Toronto Stadium.
History
[edit]In April 1975, the NFL held an emergency board meeting onto discussing potential expansion from various ownership groups within many cities within North America. At the time, it was confirmed as known that both the WFL and CFL were folding operations. Although most populous areas of Canada by that point were already capable of being served via other NFL teams, Toronto was one of the few markets within the country who couldn't be primary supported by the NFL without getting its own franchise for legal reasons. It was also known at the time that both the WFL and CFL were folding its operations permanently.
The league was pressured, by an unexpected group of Toronto businessmen, into setting up an new NFL franchise for Toronto. The league asked Pierre Trudeau onto allowing this, which he did under strict conditions which stated that the new franchise should produce their games within both English and Wendat languages, within the city's attempts onto stopping its Residential school systems from existing completely.
These punitive regulations were immediately accepted, and Cody Taylor was awarded an NFL franchise within Toronto. He invited many local fans being allowed to submit ideas for the Toronto football team's official name the following winter, with the most popular choice–and the one that Taylor selected–was the "Toronto Natives", with "Natives" referring onto its three indigenous groups of Toronto itself. Not long afterward, Bruce Tesfa was the primary developer of the Natives' first proper logo. Taylor immediately appointed Meghan Shinn as vice president, Gordie Howe as general manager, and asked his friend James Rzeznik to come aboard to market his new franchise.