1991
1991 WLAF Opening Day
Poster with photo of Surge QB Mike Elkins (signed) in opening game vs. Skyhawks & Team Photographer Tim Boggs
Photo Pass
1991 Surge Promotional Poster (#44 of 50) signed by nearly the entire team
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| 1991 Game Used Riddell VSR-1 Helmet |
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| 1991 Surge Unused Riddell VSR-1 Helmet (w/ stickers and paperwork) |
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1991 Surge Replica Helmet
in original box
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| Sacramento Surge Flight Case (Ryan Lebeau scratched on it) |
1991 Surge Fan Created #10 Mike Elkins QB figure in Peyton Manning packaging
1991 Surge Signed Card #23
Mel Farr FB/TE
1991 Surge Team Issued Home Jersey #26 Victor Floyd
RB
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| Floyd jersey (back) |
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1991 Surge Game Used Pants #28 Tony Burse FB/TE
1991 Surge Team Issued Home Jersey #29 Art Malone CB
1991 Surge Team Issued Away Jersey #33 Greg Coauette SS
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1991 Surge Team Issued Pants #35 (preseason player?)
1991 Surge Team Issued Away
Jersey #39
1991 Surge Team Issued Home Jersey #45 Tom Gerhart FS
Returned to Tom Gerhart in June 2013!
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| Gerhart jersey (back) |
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1991 Surge Team Issued Home Jerseys #56 Tim Moore LB (teal and golden collars,
one with Wilson tag)
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| Tim Moore Jersey (back) |
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| 1991 Surge Home Jersey #56 Tim Moore (teal collar) |
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| Moore jersey (back) |
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1991 Surge Team Issued Home Jersey #57 Matti Lindholm LB (Operation Discovery Player
- Finland)
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| Lindhom Jersey (back) |
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1991 Surge Team Issued Away Jersey #63
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| #63 (back) |
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1991 Surge Team Issued Home Jersey & signed card #77 Shawn Knight DE (*note:
teal collar)
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| Knight Jersey (back) |
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| Shawn Knight DE signed card |
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1991 Surge Team Issued
Home Jersey #84 Paul Smith WR (teal collar)
1991 Surge Team Issued
Home Jersey #88 Sam Archer WR
1991 Surge Team Issued Home Jersey #95 Kubanai Kalombo
DE
1991 Surge Game Used Home Jersey #96 Nate Hill NT and Home Jersey
Namplate
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| Nate Hill Jersey (back) |
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1991 Surge Schedule
Poster
1991 Surge Tickets
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| Ticket Stub 3-23-91 vs Raleigh-Durham |
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| Ticket Stubs (5-4-91) |
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| Ticket Stub (5-18-91) vs London |
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Gametime Magazine Sacramento Surge vs London Monarchs signed by 4 Monarchs and 4
Surge players (May 18, 1991)
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| SS Greg Coauette, DE Shawn Knight and CB Mike Wallace signatures |
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| LB Pete Najarian signature |
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| 1991 Surge Coach's Sweater |
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| 1991 Surge Sweatshirt (UK) |
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| 1991 Surge Pro Player Jacket |
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| 1991 Pro Player Jacket (back) |
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| 1991 Surge Bleachers Sports Pub Seat Cushions (2) |
1992
1992 Surge Poster signed by 40+ players and staff including #73 Bill Goldberg, Coach
Kay Stephenson and #18 David Archer
(Team photographer Tim Boggs personally acquired
all of the signatures during the 1992 season)
1992 Surge "Sac Attack" Limited Edition Lithograph Signed and Numbered
by the artist Matthew Holmes (A/P 44 of 50)
(Owned by team photographer
Tim Boggs)
World Bowl '92 Poster
signed by World Bowl 92 MVP QB David Archer and QB Scott Mitchell
(with
signed photo of Archer at the Press Conference)
1992 Surge Helmet signed by the Surge Front Office Staff including Jack Youngblood
(NFL HOF 2001)
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| NFL HOF DE Jack Youngblood signature |
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1992 Surge
Game Used Helmet
1992 Surge Home Jersey
Nameplate #2/3 John Nies P
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| 1992 John Nies P Nameplate |
1992 Surge Fan 3-Panel Ball (signed #18), Home and Away Team Issued Jerseys
#8 David Archer QB. Archer wore #8 for the first two games in 1992 but went to #18 in the 3rd game.
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| David Archer nameplate |
1992 Sacramento Surge Riddell Pro Line Helmet in its original box signed by
David Archer
1992 Surge Team Issued Home Jersey #15 Cary Blanchard K
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| Home Jersey #15 (back) |
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1992 Surge Game
Used Pants #22 David "Junior" Robinson DB
(who is #99 and #36 on the belt?)
1992 Surge Game Used World Bowl '92 Jersey #23 Mike Pringle RB (signed by Pringle)
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| Pringle Jersey (back) |
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| #23 Pringle signature (on back - close up) |
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| #23 Pringle World Bowl Jersey Patch |
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1992 Surge Signed Card #27
Herb Welch DB
1992 Surge World Bowl Game Used Helmet #55 Mike Jones LB (alternate facemask)
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| Mike Jones Helmet (label inside) |
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1992 Surge 2 8 x 10s & Team Issued Home Jersey #73 Bill Goldberg
DT (signed by Goldberg)
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| Bill Goldberg 8x10 |
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1992 Surge Team Issued Home Jersey #89 Anthony Green WR
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| Green Jersey (back) |
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1992 Surge Team Issued Away Jersey #93 George Bethune DE
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| Bethune Jersey (back) |
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| 1992 Media Guide |
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| 1992 Surge Ticket Information Flyer |
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| 1992 Surge Flyer (inside) |
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| 1992 Surge Eddie Brown WR fan jersey by Topley (UK) |
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| Brown fan jersey (back) |
1992 California Girls Cheerleaders
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| 1992 Cheerleader Picture |
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| Tickets (4-11-92) vs Riders (unused) 2 sets |
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| Surge Ticket Stub (3-14-92) vs Montreal |
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| 1992 Surge Ticket (May 9) vs Frankfurt |
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| Ticket Stub (5-9-92) vs Frankfurt |
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| 1992 Surge Ticket (May 16) vs Ohio |
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1993 - 1994
The Sacramento Gold Miners were originally the Sacramento Surge of the World League of American Football, which was owned by Fred Anderson. When the World League of American Football folded, he took the opportunity to start another Sacramento
team called the "Gold Miners" in the Canadian Football League
when they decided to have American teams in 1993. The two teams
could be seen as one and the same; the two entities had the same colors, owner, head coach (Kay
Stephenson), and they had in common several players and administrators that played for both the
Surge and the Gold Miners. These players included starting quarterback David Archer, Rod Harris (WR), George
Bethune (DT), Mike Oliphant (RB) and
Mike Pringle (RB). Kerwin Bell, the star quarterback of the Orlando
Thunder, was the backup quarterback to Archer. One notable team administrator was Jack Youngblood, who was the Gold Miners' Director of Marketing in 1993 and 1994, which was a similar post he held with the
Surge in 1991 and 1992.
When the 1993 CFL season started, the Gold Miners, with an all-US staff, took some time to learn the intricacies of Canadian football.
But the team was fortunate enough to have leadership from Archer and got great plays from Harris. In their first season, the
Sacramento Gold Miners entered the CFL history books by:
- Becoming the first American
team to play in the CFL.
- Becoming the first American team to host a CFL game, against
the Calgary Stampeders (losing 38-36) on July
17.
- Becoming the first American team to record a win in the CFL, against the
Saskatchewan Roughriders (winning 37-26) on July 24. (However, they were not the first
American team to win against a CFL team.) (wikipedia.org)
1993 Gold Miners Game Used Helmet
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| 1993 Gold Miners Game Used Helmet |
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| 1993 Kay Stephenson Signed Business Card |
1993 Goldminers Autograph Ball
signed by Dave Archer, Carl Parker, Mike Pringle + 5 more
1993 Gold Miners Fan Club T-Shirt signed by 28 players and staff including
owners Fred and Jim Anderson, David Archer, Kerwin Bell, Carl Parker and Coach Kay Stephenson
1993 Goldminers Game Used Pants #18 David Archer QB
1993 Gold Miners Game Used Away Jersey #79 Vance Hammond DT
1993 Gold Miners Game Used Away Jersey #82 Myron Wise WR
1993 Gold Miners Game Used Pants #86 Carl Parker WR
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| 1993 CFL Flyer signed by Archer, Parker & Couette |
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| 1993 Gold Miners Media Guide |
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| 1993 Goldminers Packet |
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| 1993 Gold Miners Souvenir Magazine |
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| 1993 Gold Miners Souvenir Magazine (signed by David Archer, Doug Flutie +14) |
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| Doug Flutie signature +4 |
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| 1993 Gold Miners T Shirt |
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| 1993 Gold Miners Hat with CFL tag |
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| 1993 Gold Miners Fuddruckers Pennant |
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| 1993 Gold Miners Team Photo (signed by 10) |
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| 2 signatures on the back |
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| 1993 Gold Miners Dance Team Photo (signed by 2 dancers) |
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| 1993 Gold Miners Cards |
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1994
1994 Gold Miners Game Used Away Jersey #7 Tony Hargain WR
1994 Sacramento Gold Miners Game Used Jersey #39 Bobby Humphrey DB
1994 Gold Miners Game Used Home Jersey #90 Leonard Nelson LB
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| 1994 Sacramento Gold Miners Media Guide |
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| 1994 Gold Miners Cards (26 cards) |
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| July 8, 1994 vs Posse |
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| August 18. 1994 vs Eskimos |
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| September 2, 1994 vs Eskimos |
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| September 24, 1994 vs Stampeders |
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| October 8, 1994 vs Argonauts |
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| 1994 Goldminers Preseason Ticket (June 18 vs Calgary) |
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1995
The San Antonio Texans were a Canadian Football League (CFL) team
that played in the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, in the 1995 CFL season. They had relocated from Sacramento, California,
where the team had been called the Sacramento Gold Miners. After relocating, the team still had the same ownership in Fred
Anderson and the same staff, including General Manager Dan Bass and Head Coach Kay Stephenson.
In the 1993 season there were supposed to be two U.S. teams in the CFL, the Sacramento Gold Miners and the
San Antonio Riders; however, the original San Antonio Riders franchise folded without ever playing when its owner, Larry Benson,
ran out of money and was forced to withdraw. After two seasons (1993 and 1994) in Sacramento, it was the Gold Miners who then
became San Antonio's team as the Texans. The Gold Miners/Texans franchise thus played three seasons (five if the Texans' WLAF
incarnation, the Sacramento Surge, is also counted), one of them as the Texans, before folding in 1995.
The team moved to San Antonio and became the Texans for the 1995 CFL season. Anderson decided to
fold the team at the end of the season after Memphis Mad Dogs, Shreveport Pirates and Birmingham Stallions all folded
and the Stallions relocated to Montreal to become the new Alouettes. Anderson did not want to be the only remaining American
CFL owner. (wikipedia.org)
Notable Players and Staff
Mike Kiselak (San Antonio Riders and Sacramento Gold Miners) Joe Ferguson (Yes, that Joe Ferguson from the Buffalo Bills, hired to QB at 45 years old!) Mike Riley (Named head coach of initial CFL team in 1993 before the team folded. Original San Antonio Riders Coach)
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| 1995 Texans Hat |
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| 1995 San Antonio Texans Media Guide |
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| 1995 Texans Card Set |
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| 1995 San Antonio Texans 8x10 |
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| 1995 Texans Roster from the CFL |
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