Facts and information about the Boston Breakers

• The Breakers played all three seasons of the USFL’s existence in three different cities. In 1983 they were the Boston Breakers, for the 1984 season they were the New Orleans Breakers, and for the final USFL season in 1985 they were the Portland (OR) Breakers.

• The Boston Breakers originally intended to play their home games in Foxboro Stadium, used primarily by the NFL’s New England Patriots, when this plan didn’t work out the Breakers ended up playing at Boston University’s Nickerson Field.

• Though the Breakers played in three distinct cities, they never changed their nickname or their logo.

• The move from Boston was instigated by their home field at Boston University only seating 21,000 spectators, this was drastically different the next year as in New Orleans they played in the massive New Orleans Superdome.

• The Boston Breakers share their name with a team in the Womens United Soccer Association.

• Of their three seasons in the USFL, the Breakers only winning record came while playing in Boston.

• Because of the nomadic nature of the Breakers existence in the USFL, Head Coach Dick Coury became the only USFL coach to coach all three years in three different cities.