Amsterdam Admirals
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| Year founded | 1995 | ||
| Year retired | 2007 | ||
| Home field | Amsterdam Arena | ||
| City | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
| Team colors | Admirals Blue, Orange, Green, White, Light Blue | ||
| Mascot | Albert the Albatross | ||
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World Bowls (1)
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World Bowls (1)
The Amsterdam Admirals were a professional American football team in NFL Europe who played in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The Admirals were formed in 1995 as part of the NFL's plan to restart the World League of American Football, to be based entirely in Europe. The Admirals were one of three new teams, the others being the Scottish Claymores based in Edinburgh and the Rhein Fire based in Düsseldorf, Germany, to join the old World League's European Division teams: the Barcelona Dragons, the Frankfurt Galaxy, and the London Monarchs.
The Admirals began playing their home games at the old Olympisch Stadion, built in 1928 for the Summer Games. They played there for two years until the Amsterdam ArenA was completed in 1996. When the Admirals were forced to schedule their last home game of the 2000 season against the Claymores away from the ArenA as Euro 2000 preparations were finalized, they made a return to the Olympisch Stadion in what turned out to be one of the most unusual games in American football history. The end zone at the north end of the stadium was ruled unsafe by the officials as the surface was in poor condition, so it was decided that the teams would change ends at every change of possession and play towards the other end zone.
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