Texas Outlaws (football)

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Texas Outlaws
Founded2014
Based in Austin, Texas, United States
League Fall Experimental Football League
Team HistoryTexas Outlaws (2014–2015)
Team colorsBlack, platinum, White
            
Owner(s) Tommie Harris, Eric Bassey
Fan Website www.fxfl.com

The Texas Outlaws were a proposed professional football team based in Austin, Texas. They were to be members of Fall Experimental Football League. The team was owned by former NFL players Tommie Harris and Eric Bassey. [1] They announced that the team colors were to be platinum and black, but had yet to announce a home stadium. They shared the mascot name with another team in Austin, the Austin Outlaws of the Women's Football Alliance. [2] [3]

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Austin, Texas Capital of Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. It is the 11th-most populous city in the United States and the 4th-most populous city in Texas. It is also the fastest growing large city in the United States, the second most populous state capital after Phoenix, Arizona, and the southernmost state capital in the contiguous United States. As of the U.S. Census Bureau's July 1, 2017 estimate, Austin had a population of 950,715 up from 790,491 at the 2010 census. The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin–Round Rock metropolitan statistical area, which had an estimated population of 2,115,827 as of July 1, 2017. Located in Central Texas within the greater Texas Hill Country, it is home to numerous lakes, rivers, and waterways, including Lady Bird Lake and Lake Travis on the Colorado River, Barton Springs, McKinney Falls, and Lake Walter E. Long.

Fall Experimental Football League

The Fall Experimental Football League (FXFL) was a professional football minor league that played two seasons in 2014 and 2015. This league's stated goal was to become a professional feeder-system for the National Football League (NFL).

The Outlaws did not play in FXFL's inaugural 2014 season. [4] As of the end of the 2014 season, the team was still being considered as a possibility for 2015, [5] however, they were not included in that season's schedule [6] and were assumed to have folded. The FXFL itself also ceased operations during the 2015 season.

Former FXFL CEO Brian Woods brought minor league football to Austin in 2018 when he held that year's edition of The Spring League, another development league he founded, to the city. [7]

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