As the Quebec Rifles, the team was the first professional American football team to be based in Canada. It played the 1964 season in Montreal, Quebec in the original United Football League. When that league dissolved and the Continental Football League formed in its place, the Quebec Rifles moved to Toronto and played three years in the ContFL before folding after 4 games into the regular season in 1967. The team finished second in the league in 1965, losing to the Charleston Rockets in the league championship. In 1967, however, the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts signed away the Rifles' head coach, Leo Cahill, quarterback Tom Wilkinson and running back Joe Williams. Meanwhile, Alan Eagleson took over the franchise. The team decalred bankruptcy 4 games into the 1967 season and