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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles During this time, the NFLPA promoted two "all-star games." One was held at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. on October 17, 1982 between two teams billed as "National East" and "American East." On the following day, October 18, another game was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum between players from the "American West" and the "National West." Both teams wore generic uniforms, with the home teams wearing red and the visiting teams wearing white. The NFLPA had hoped that the league's biggest stars would show up for the game, but few of them did. Perhaps the biggest reason for this was that the players on strike had no health insurance and therefore were totally responsible for any injuries suffered on the field. Neither game drew more than 20,000 spectators and the TV ratings (the games were syndicated by Turner Network Television) were abysmal in both cases. Although more all-star games had been scheduled by the NFLPA, none of them were ever played.