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Shreveport Steamer

Houston Texans
Team helmet
Team logo
Established 1974
Folded September 1974
Based in Houston, Texas
Home field Astrodome
Head coach Marshall Taylor
League World Football League
Division Western
Colours Green and gold          
Shreveport Steamer
Team helmet
Team logo
Established September 1974
Folded October 1975
Based in Shreveport, Louisiana
Home field State Fair Stadium
Head coach Jim Garrett
League World Football League
Division Western
Colours Green and gold          
Nickname(s) The Boats

The Shreveport Steamer were a professional American football team in the World Football League. The franchise began the 1974 season in Houston, Texas, as the Houston Texans, who are in no way related to the current NFL team of the same name, playing their home games at the Houston Astrodome. Toward the end of the season the team relocated to Shreveport, Louisiana, and became the Shreveport Steamer. They played at the 30,000-seat State Fair Stadium, now named Independence Stadium.

Larry King, of CNN fame, was one of their broadcasters.

The Steamer showcased a number of veterans and a few rookies. Among them were ambidextrous quarterback and former University of Houston star D.C. Nobles and several American Football League veterans: quarterbacks Mike Taliaferro and Don Trull, fullback Jim Nance, wide receivers Don Maynard and Rick Eber, tight end Willie Frazier, former Houston Oiler and All-AFL tackle Glen Ray Hines, linebacker Garland Boyette, defensive end Al Dotson, defensive backs Daryl Johnson, Richmond Flowers, Jr., John Mallory and Art McMahon, and rookie linebacker John Villapiano, brother of Oakland Raiders defender Phil Villapiano.


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