Every Defunct NFL Franchise 

the ultimate power move

Pro gamer move

Solid Elon Musk move. Burn it down.

That's some Judge Doom shit.

Try doing it in 2022

It’s honestly a great way random Joes can be icons

I mean, Tonawanda is basically buffalo. You can literally cross the street and you'll be in buffalo.

Kardex was the name of the office-supply company that sponsored them. That's like being the Evanston Post-Its or the San Bernardino Bics.

As I recall the history, they were not going to play a game at all, except they had to honor the contract with the Rochester team. So they hastily put a team together and got blown out.

Then Ralph Wilson hired the entire coaching staff for the Bills in the AFL.

We need an ABA and WHA video

The ABA was my favorite league by far. The NBA wasn't what it is today and they changed because of their rivals!

Especially since the Colonels not only survived all nine years of the ABA's existence without moving or rebranding, but in 1975, they WON A CHAMPIONSHIP. I still wonder why they weren't able to join the NBA like the Nuggets, Nets, Spurs and Pacers did.

No, but a professional franchise has. UK Basketball paid more in salaries than some NBA teams.

​@@coldsnap5742 The Chicago Bulls wanted one of the Colonels star players so they colluded to keep the Colonels out of the merger.

I hope they rebrand when they get rid of Synder if they don’t relocate

Ba Dum Tss 🥁

The whole franchise is elite until dan snyder took over..that 90s team that one the superbowl is one of the best teams ever..

Communists? Great

I would've favored the Wildcats, seeing that no major sports franchise has ever used that name.

Agreed. Even the early MLB (AL/NL) and NHL were *incredibly* well-organized and recorded. Pre-Championship Game-era NFL is just a shitshow.

The NFL was basically nothing but a bunch of barnstroming and club teams until the late 20's/early 30's. This is why they really didn't have a legit title game until 1933. This is the reason for so many one off teams. Even the Cardinals, who are still the oldest continuing franchise in the NFL used to be called a club(Morgan Athletic Club for instance).

They use it for high school sports!! Grew up just north of Portsmouth and we played them a few times. It's so cool

And, somehow, Ohio still doesn't have a Superbowl to it's name

@@jollygrapefruit786 they were 🤏 this close

@@simon2722 several times.

@@phoenixantis6994 that's kinda cool. Hopefully they never demolish it, because it's a piece of local history.

Glad to see the name still used

. . . the Goddamn Football League?

@@qfmarsh64 that's a great name

Worse than the Oakland/Los Angeles/Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders

Or the Cleveland/Los Angeles/St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams

Or the Los Angeles/San Diego/Los Angeles/London Chargers.

@@cjvaye99 the Los Angeles/California/Anaheim/Los Angeles of Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels

I think the Portsmouth Spartans / Detroit Lions is more pathetic

Michigan Panthers won 1983 USFL championship.

The damn curse of Bobby Layne seems like he might have been a prophet.

@@commodorezero still an L

@@1VERSEWITNESS , thankfully, the power of YAHWEH EL ELOHIM and His Holy Word can break curses. If I could afford the franchise, or, better yet, that Washington one, I would do things that would blow the minds of the people of the NFL.

I agree.. History is fun..

I feel like that’s something Antonio brown would do

Alongside the current Rams and Chargers.

@@Nutelko8 well they're both top 10 in attendance

@@whosaidthat84 Due to opposing fanbases

@@whosaidthat84 Had the Raiders moved alongside with the Rams, the Raiders would have been the #1 selling team in SoFi... Kroenke & his Rams weren't gonna allow that to happen so he opted for the lesser Chargers franchise to be their roommates. So, no. Neither Rams nor Chargers are capable of selling out independently without their respective division rivals

@@MarloSoBalJr he didn't "block" the Raiders the way you described. Spanos got dibs first with the Chargers. And you really think that only home fans sell out? Cowboys always get invaded as do other markets like Jacksonville. Only places like Kansas City, Green Bay, or Buffalo have a 95% home fanbase.

I noticed that too, also the consistency of Detroit football teams being horrible

Entrance fees I guess.

The 1920 entry fee was: $100

Football wasn't as lucrative until the 60s. You could still form a team for seven figures 'til the merger. Just that keeping a franchise running for 12(?) weeks at that time was the challenge

very different league

A lot of them just stole the local colleges nicknames.

Or pro baseball's. But that at least made some sense because they were usually sharing the same stadium.

They’re the continuation of the Dayton Triangles-Brooklyn Dodgers franchise that’s now in Indianapolis as the Colts.

You know people from New England area of America were orginaly called Yankees or Yanks. Boston is in New England.

Washington's ineptness doesn't come close to Detroit or Arizona in total

That could be the case. The Decatur Staleys / Chicago Bears and the Cardinals were probably better financed than the Tigers.

What was your great grandpas name? Whatd he play? Just curious as I think this is pretty cool

Al Capone! A truly great American!

Halas. Not Hallas.

The packers are a team that was founded in 1919 and played a couple of seasons before folding in 1921. They were were a short lived team like many others. 50 years later a new franchise team was founded in Milwaukee but had troubles competing with the market in Chicago. After all I don’t know any NFL team that would play in a town of 100,000

Milwaukee Badgers 4 life!

As a Georgia Bulldogs fan, I'm glad nothing did happen to them. UGA wouldn't look the same without that iconic G the Packers came up with. As well as my highschool.

Packers suck.

In the 1950s, the league told the Packers, you better get a new stadium or we'll revoke the franchise and give a new one to Milwaukee.

They’re the continuation of the Dayton Triangles. The players then moved to Baltimore the next year and became the Colts. The NFL never should have folded them. They’re a founding franchise.

Art Donovan? How much does this guy weigh?

@@ChristianGiaconiBonaguro "how much does dis guy weigh?? He looks like a business man!"

@@TigerWoodsLibido "The players then moved to Baltimore and became the..." Hmmm, that sounds familiar.

@@TigerWoodsLibido Officially, they folded. Unofficially, the remnants of the team were used to start up the current Colts franchise. Really, if you look into the history of the NFL, you'll notice a couple of team "bloodlines" converging in the mid-'40s, and a series of teams folding only for their remnants to be reborn as a "new" franchise, the way the Browns of the early '90s became the "new" franchise of the Baltimore Ravens. The following teams are part of that bloodline: *Old Line:* Dayton Triangles (1920-1929) _(team originally founded in 1913 as part of the Ohio League)_ Brooklyn Dodgers (1930-1943); Brooklyn Tigers (1944) *New Line:* Boston Yanks (1944) For the 1945 season, the Brooklyn Tigers and the Boston Yanks temporarily merged due to a shortage of players (due to WWII), naming themselves "The Yanks" for this season. This was a common practice during WWII; 1943 had combined the Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers for a season (often called the "Steagles"), and 1944 had combined the Steelers with the Chicago Cardinals (as "Card-Pitt"). After the season, the owner of the Brooklyn Tigers wished to have his team move to the rival All-American Football Conference (AAFC); as a result, the Tigers franchise was revoked by the NFL and the players were all assigned to the Boston Yanks, making the former merger permanent. As such, the line continues as follows: *Combined Line:* The Yanks (1945), Boston Yanks (1946-1948) New York Bulldogs (1949), New York Yanks (1950-1951) Dallas Texans (1952) Baltimore Colts (1953-1983), Indianapolis Colts (1984-present)

I find it rather funny that pro leagues were compared to "pimps and prostitutes" back then when you look at colleges today. Colleges today as well as back then make all the money and pay the players nothing more than tuition, essentially making them the pimps.

Americas oldest brewery!

I’ve been having it since I moved to Florida. They have a 2nd brewery in Tampa. My grandpa was from Pennsylvania and always talked about the beer but I couldn’t have it in California

@@Zach-mw5so yes! can confirm I have relatives who moved to Lakeland and Clearwater they also have wawa down there now

Not a success? 1925 Champions!

Washington knows nothing about democracy

The only Senators DC residents used to vote for were baseball players for the annual All-Star Game

Apparently the one lesson we can glean is DON'T FUCKING CALL YOUR TEAM THE "MAROONS."

@@qfmarsh64 but that Montreal Maroons team did win a Stanley Cup or two

What a buncha maroons

then college proceeds to lose to a school that's in their 2nd year being Division 1

I never get why their ABA team never got to going the NBA

I believe Kentucky is now the biggest populated state without a big 4 team. That or Connecticut.

​@Mr. Pete Channel has reached the big time! I'm pretty sure it's Virginia.

And the Triangles won the first ever NFL game. And they won the Greatest Game Ever Played in 1958. And had the first black head coach to win a Super Bowl. The Colts history can be traced back to 1913.

Fun fact: Card-Pitt were called "Carpets" by some people since they were REALLY bad

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the CFL are a child of this as well. Hamilton used to have teams called the Tigers and Wildcats. They merged and became the Tiger-Cats.

I prefer “Providence Steamroller”, it really captures the image of that singular mighty force that you mentioned. That would be an amazing name, shame no one else picked it up,

Holy shit. I live about an hour's drive from there. That town is a pinprick.

Right on 👍👊🏻✊

I was thinking the same thing when he said APFL!!

If the federal courts decides to cease the Washington team because it's connected to Snyder.

Agreed. The Colts go back to before the NFL existed.

Okay can someone explain this to me bc I’m intrigued…. Fun fact in the NHL the Oakland seals moved to Cleveland and did so bad there they merged with the north stars in Minnesota. When the San Jose Sharks came into the league, Gund, the old owner of the Seals and minority owner of the north stars became The owner of the sharks. He gave Minnesota a couple late draft picks to signify the change. So technically the Sharks are a continuation of the Oakland Seals / Cleveland Barons franchise…. Okay I explained that complicated thing in short time … is it something like that? I’m very interested….

Awesome! Thank you!

That would be cool for preseason games

Not exactly. There was a team named the Renegades before the RedBlacks, that lasted for a few years. And if you want to be very precise the Roughriders are based in Regina, Saskatchewan while the Rough Riders were Ottawa's team from 1876 until 1996

@@griselame I never said that this was a definitive list. I said it a list of stupid names and having a small league like the CFL and two teams with the same name not talking about semantics. Also, I didn't do a full rundown of Ottawa teams, the rough riders folded and a while later the red blacks come in The red blacks and two roughrider teams are stupid

@@hommie789 as I said, in the early 2000s, before the RedBlacks there was another team in Ottawa, called the Renegades

@@griselame And the Renegades NEVER had a winning season and the CFL equivalent of Dan Snyder (the Glieberman's) ruined both the Rough Riders (almost moved to Shreveport) and the Renegades. The original Ottawa Rough Riders name is still held by a Chicago restauranteur hence the stupid names appearing in Ottawa.

Different CFL, the one Orange was in was the Continental Football League or CoFL. The Canadian Football League is completely different

Or how the Baltimore Stallions still exist, after the failed CFL expansion into the US, the Grey Cup winning Baltimore Stallions moved to Montreal and became the Alouettes.

With two, soon to be three, defunct teams from OTTAWA!!

Basically all the CFL USA teams, Montreal Concordes, original Montreal Alouttes, Ottawa Rough Riders, Ottawa RedBlacks, some service teams, and some teams that existed before the consolidation of the western and eastern leagues into the CFL.

@@bokkebokke7 i think you mean the ottawa renegades instead of the redblacks, the redblacks still exist (for now)

@@calzoneyyy Got the 2 confused-kinda easy to do that, mea culpa. Thanks for the correction.

An amazingly underrated movie

Using your own image to make money is a different thing than some rich white guys stealing your image and giving you nothing in return, I'm glad you noticed!