[1] The driving force behind the formation of the club was Alexander Sperber, son of a U.S. Army soldier and a German mother.
[6] While the club was able to repeat its championship the following year, with the league now split into a northern and a southern division, Ansbach finally managed to triumph in 1981.
Frankfurt won its division, the northern, which it played in despite being a rather central German club, but was stopped by the Grizzlies in the final.
[6] The team moved to the southern division for 1982 but came only third that year and was knocked out in the quarter-finals by the Düsseldorf Panther, who would go on to win the final.
The Frankfurter Löwen only just scraped into the play-offs, finishing fourth, and again had to face the Panthers, where a 55–0 defeat would be the last competitive game ever played by the side.
With Frankfurt being the banking center of Germany and maybe of continental Europe, and apparently some surplus money to spend, the players and managers gambled again.
[7] Soon, fans founded Frankfurt Universe to continue as an amateur Football club, hoping to take over name, brand etc.