the loss of the NFL contract, but in a stunning blow to CBS, Fox outbid them for those rights as well. The replacement programming CBS ended up airing on Sunday afternoons in the fall of 1994 and 1995 involved mostly a package of encore made-for-TV movies under the umbrella title CBS Sunday Afternoon Showcase, which were targeted towards women in an attempt to counterprogram NBC and Fox. However, they made very little headway with some affiliates forgoing the movie package altogether and instead airing either, local and/or religious programs, professional wrestling and syndicated television shows such as Highlander: The Series; by 1996, CBS picked up additional NASCAR Winston Cup, Busch Series and Craftsman Truck races in order to compete in some form. In 1994, CBS had a new series of boxing bouts on Saturday or Sundays under the Eye on Sports banner. CBS continued airing boxing on a somewhat regular basis until 1998, by which time they had the NFL (after acquiring the American Football Conference package from NBC) and college football back on their slate. One of the often cited reasons for the Canadian Football League's failed American experiment, and part of the reason why the CFL fell behind the NFL in terms of quality players, was the state of the league's American television contract. The league, which had held a U.S. network television contract in the 1950s and again briefly in 1982, was then being carried on ESPN2, at the time a nascent channel devoted to extreme sports that was not nearly as widely available as its parent network and only carried a limited number of the league's games (with ESPN itself airing some games to fill in airtime available due to the 1994 Major League Baseball strike, as well as the Grey Cup on tape delay). It was not until after the 1995 season that the CFL, mainly through the action of its American franchises, approached CBS to see if it could get coverage. However, by the time negotiations started, the CFL had decided to fold or relocate all of its American franchises, and the negotiations with CBS accordingly fell through. It would not be until several years later that the CFL reached a television contract in the United States, on a much smaller network (America One). The following year, in 1996, CBS added college football games featuring the Southeastern and Big East conferences on Saturday afternoons.