 The CFL held a dispersal draft for the Alouettes players.Some of the players left out of work by the team's demise (both on the Alouettes and players on other CFL teams who were cut to make room for former Alouettes) played in the NFL as replacement players during another players' strike later that year.In the interim period that the Alouettes were inactive, professional gridiron football would come back to Montreal in the form of the World League of American Football's Montreal Machine, who played two seasons in 1991 and 1992 under American rules.