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Coming out of North Carolina State, where he had been a two-sport star and could well have lettered in a third, Gabriel was as hot a prospect as ever came down the pike. The Oakland Raiders of the fledgling American Football League, still trying to make a name for itself, had first choice in the AFL draft and chose Gabriel. The Rams, with the second pick in the far more established NFL, chose him, too. It's never a bad thing to add an experienced receiver -- especially when coming from arguably the best conference in all of college football.
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Upon the band's 2016 reunion album, the group returned to the home, receiving permission to access the interior for a cover shot. In the late 90s, there used to be a gangway connecting the garage and the house that's no longer there. There was also a decrepit half pipe in the backyard that Sleater Kinney had supposedly once played in. Illinois bands like Smoking Popes, Oblivion, and Apocalypse Hoboken played on the same halfpipe, although most punk shows happened on the back porch when Strong lived there. The house doesn't just invoke memories of the Champaign-based label, though. It's become a defining mark of a specific era in Urbana and in emo music.
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Well, it turns out that American Football just recently purchased it. An avid fan of the band since she was a kid, Knoles had originally signed the lease without knowing it was "the" house. When Knoles found out, the lifetime fan was so excited that she broke in a few days before the lease began on a mission to explore what she knew as "The American Football House" before she called it her own. In 2014, American Football released the music video for “Never Meant,” filmed inside the house.
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Strong of arm — he could throw the football 70 yards — he staked his claim to fame by passing in an era when many coaches relied on a grind-it-out running game and saw the downfield pass as an option of last resort. The stairs and hallway in the American Football House were used for American Football’s second album cover. I just kept saying no and wasn’t really in communication with the other guys. It seemed fun enough and cool enough that the first proposal was to play in Champaign at the Pygmalion fest.
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Back then, Strong was just a college kid and Lunsford was figuring out how to run a record label. Roman Gabriel had big size and a big arm when he was the No. 2 draft pick of the Los Angeles Rams in 1962. Even while playing in an era of grinding it out on the ground, he still holds the Rams’ team record with 154 touchdown passes. As Sean McVay prepares to make a first-round pick in the NFL draft for the first time as a head coach, the Los Angeles Rams are setting up shop in a luxurious draft house for this weekend's event. What American Football intends to do with the American Football House, apart from likely using it as cover art on their next album, we just don’t know. An emo tourist attraction seems most likely since most previous tenants have complained about the house’s size and construction.
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Across the country, Michael Thies felt that same thing while he watched American Football play at Webster Hall in New York City during American Football's original run of reunion shows. Thies grew up in Champaign-Urbana and started working at Polyvinyl in 2010 before moving to New York City to work for the label out there. "It is weird having something so intricate to my junior high and high school days continue to affect me in my college years," Knoles says. "The house was really shitty—good shitty, maybe, but still bad," Knoles says. Often with band reformations, there's a hope that some things haven't changed. For those involved with putting together American Football's comeback album, there was slight relief—and shock—when they discovered the home was more or less the place it was in 1999.
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After that, we broke up, I went to Illinois, joined American Football sort of. And then I got out of school and I had been touring just in summer and spring breaks. So I just started playing myself and as Owen, that band by myself, and then American Football got back together in 2014.
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But over the past 20 years, a decrepit little house just off campus at 704 W. Though it’s been nearly 50 years since he last played, Gabriel still holds the Rams’ records for touchdown passes, 154; passes thrown, 3,313, and victories by a starting quarterback, 74. He also ranks high among signal callers for the Philadelphia Eagles, with whom he spent the last five seasons of his NFL career, after 11 with the Rams. The cover of American Football's self-titled 1999 album is an iconic image within the occasionally intersecting communities of emo-rock and suburbia fetishists. Today, the Illinois band announced that the house had been put up for sale last fall, and that they'd recently completed a purchase of the property. Today, with sincere joy, we are excited to share that we have collectively purchased The American Football House in an effort to preserve its place and legacy within the community that built it.
His father, also Roman Gabriel, was a Filipino who emigrated to Alaska, then made his way to Wilmington, N.C., where he became a waiter, then a cook for the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. His mother, Edna Mae Wyatt, was an Irish American with no athletic history. Gabriel had asthma as a child but was all-state, not only in football but basketball and baseball as well, at New Hanover High in Wilmington. The New York Yankees wanted to sign him out of high school but he opted for N.C. Meanwhile, off the field, the battle between the two leagues had raged on, with the AFL trying to force a merger, and Gabriel again a focal point.
“His role and who he takes votes from is likely to be quite dynamic” as the campaign develops, said Lis Smith, the veteran Democratic strategist who leads the party’s efforts against Kennedy. But surveys have given mixed results on whether he would siphon more support from Biden or Trump. It’s impossible to know how many of Stein’s voters might have voted for Hillary Clinton, but the claim that she cost Clinton the election is at least plausible. So it’s not surprising that over the past year, the race has fluctuated only within a very narrow band. Within the closely divided states, the sliver of the electorate who remain uncertain about which candidate they will vote for — or whether they’ll vote at all — will be critical to the outcome.
The members of Illinois emo greats American Football never actually lived in the house that graced the cover of their first self-titled album in 1999. In a news release, Polyvinyl said the house, in nearby Urbana, was put up for sale in fall 2022, and they worried it could’ve been demolished — so the buyers “made a pact” to protect it. “A few days ago, we held true to this promise and formally signed the closing papers, preserving both the space and its unique legacy within the community that shaped its existence,” the label said. American Football are now the proud co-owners of the house at 704 West High Street in Urbana, Illinois, according to a statement from Polyvinyl Records. American Football's 1999 self-titled debut album has become a cult classic, a well-reviewed album that is often mentioned among the most respected releases from the early days of emo. Yet, one of the most memorable things about the record is the plain, white facade of the house that graces the album cover.
"It's super dark and kind of rundown, but in a great way. There's dirty corners. There's a nice 'Urbana' thing about Urbana that I can't put my finger on." "One time I was sitting on the porch and some guy came by and asked if he could have his friend take his picture in front of the house," he says. "Presumably, there's a picture out there somewhere of a person pointing at the house and smiling with me in the background drinking beer and scowling." It's a reminder of their home, whether that's the town they're from or the house they used to live in.
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