After the 1995 season, American-based teams, many of whom were running into financial problems, folded.

It was the first general draft held by Women's Professional Soccer to assign the WPS rights of international and domestic players to the American-based teams.

The Metropolitans became the first American-based team to win the Stanley Cup.

The Lewiston Maineiacs became the league's second American-based team in history after the Plattsburgh Pioneers, and first to survive a full season.

Like all of the other the American-based teams, the franchise was dropped in the World League reorganization of 1995.

For the first time in history, the Grey Cup went to an American-based team.

The game was the first-ever game that involved two American-based teams in the CFL.

This was the first time in Stanley Cup history that two American-based teams met in the Final.

That Grey Cup game marked the only time an American-based team won the Grey Cup.

It marked the only time that an American-based team won the Grey Cup.