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Moved North American Sports Franchises

Can you name the places where these teams used to play?
The answer could be a city, state, province, or borough
This is not intended to be an exclusive list
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
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First submittedDecember 30, 2010
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Current Team
Years
Answer
Las Vegas Raiders
1960–1981
1995–2019
Oakland
1981–1995
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Dodgers
1883–1957
Brooklyn
Los Angeles Lakers
1947–1960
Minneapolis
Oklahoma City Thunder
1967–2008
Seattle
(Supersonics)
Memphis Grizzlies
1995–2001
Vancouver
Utah Jazz
1974–1979
New Orleans
Dallas Stars
1967–1993
Minnesota
San Francisco Giants
1886–1957
New York
Indianapolis Colts
1953–1983
Baltimore
Golden State Warriors
1946–1962
Philadelphia
Current Team
Years
Answer
Baltimore Ravens
1950–1995
Cleveland
(Browns)
Atlanta Braves
1953–1965
Milwaukee
1912–1952
Boston
Athletics (baseball)
1968–2024
Oakland
1955–1967
Kansas City
1901–1954
Philadelphia
Tennessee Titans
1960–1996
Houston (Oilers)
Los Angeles Rams
1995–2015
St. Louis
Washington Nationals
1969–2004
Montreal (Expos)
Colorado Avalanche
1972–1995
Quebec
(Nordiques)
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62 Comments
tschutzer
+2
Level 92
Dec 30, 2010
Great quiz! And amazing that you put it together so quickly after I suggested it just last week. :D

Good idea to add the note at the bottom, especially for the A's and the Cardinals. In the case of the Athletics, it makes the quiz much more difficult!

Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Dec 30, 2010
In truth, I made the quiz before you suggested it. I guess great minds think alike!
MuchoMacho
+3
Level 83
Apr 3, 2016
Not sure if this list was suppose to be all inclusive of active franchises but the Atlanta Thrashers also moved to become the Winnipeg Jets.
scott4real
+2
Level 69
May 26, 2020
There are a number of hockey ones missing. The Atlanta Flames moved to Calgary for example. I know there are others missed in football too.
mo918
+5
Level 77
Jan 7, 2011
What about the Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets?
Baltimorean
+4
Level 66
Jan 13, 2013
And if you want to get into the forgotten prehistory of some major American teams, then how about the Decatur Staleys (now the Bears), the Portsmouth Spartans (now the Lions), the Fort Wayne Pistons (now in Detroit), the St. Louis Browns (now the Orioles), the Syracuse Nationals (now the 76ers), or the Philadelphia Warriors (now Golden State)? This leaves out, of course, teams such as the Rochester Royals, who became the Cincinnati Royals, then the Kansas City Kings, then the Sacramento Kings and possibly the Seattle whatevers in the near future. Or the Buffalo Braves, who became the San Diego Clippers, then the LA Clippers. The list goes on . . . good excuse for an expansion.
aliberti68
+1
Level 54
Jun 4, 2013
good quiz 100%
Coyuznik
+1
Level 84
Jun 6, 2014
Wouldn't you know it... the only ones I missed were from the NHL.
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 90
Feb 1, 2019
God help you if you're from Canada. Admit that Tim Horton's tastes worse than the styrofam cup and is weaker than US coffee and you're done for.
MungoJerry
+2
Level 61
Dec 23, 2020
you've commented anti-Canadian stuff on several quizzes now, a Canuck steal your girl or what?
johnlevy023
+2
Level 81
Feb 25, 2016
You might want to update this since the St. Louis Rams just recently moved to Los Angeles
frognbuff
+2
Level 87
Apr 3, 2016
This is certainly outdated, they are the Los Angeles Rams again. Obviously since I'm playing this in 2016.
noodles
+9
Level 69
Jan 31, 2020
Could also add Hartford Whalers -> Carolina Hurricanes and Atlanta Thrashers -> Winnipeg Jets, Atlanta Flames -> Calgary Flames
AdamC0912
+7
Level 83
Jan 31, 2020
Any quiz like this must include Hartford Whalers :(
Chutney
+3
Level 62
Mar 31, 2020
brass bonanza!
mf3
+1
Level 88
Jan 31, 2020
For the Dallas Stars, you really should accept Minneapolis and/or Bloomington (where the NFL Vikings played for years). Those are the actual "places", just as Miami was for the Florida Marlins before they were renamed the Miami Marlins.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jan 31, 2020
Minneapolis will work for that one now.
joeythelemur
+2
Level 82
Feb 3, 2020
I disagree. The stadium was in Bloomington, but that's no different than lots of other teams where the stadium location isn't exactly in line with the team name. The Minnesota North Stars didn't represent Bloomington any more than the NE Patriots represent Foxboro or the SF 49ers represent Santa Clara. Minneapolis is a kinda, sorta acceptable answer, but it's clear that the quiz is looking for the actual nameplace of the team actually in use.
drlancy
+2
Level 57
Feb 4, 2020
Shouldn't New York work for Brooklyn? It's a borough of NYC.
PoetsCorner
+2
Level 87
Aug 2, 2023
Did anyone EVER refer to the team as "the New York Dodgers"? Did they ever have an NY logo on their caps?
RuthlessCosmo
+1
Level 75
Nov 30, 2024
Plus Brooklyn was a separate (and bigger) city than NYC when the Dodgers (then called the Brooklyn Grays) began in 1883.

ETA: I see Quizmaster has made the same point. The Quizmaster is always right!

Nightcap
+2
Level 81
Feb 6, 2020
Arizona Cardinals used to be the Chicago Cardinals for years.
ander217
+2
Level 75
May 23, 2020
Via St. Louis 1960-1987 (that's Cardinal football, not baseball)
MungoJerry
+3
Level 61
Mar 11, 2020
Bring back le Nordique PLEASE
Chutney
+1
Level 62
May 23, 2020
how bout no
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
May 23, 2020
I did horrible on this. Predictably. Even missed the Nationals and my dad has season tickets. I knew they came from somewhere in Canada but I was stuck on Ottawa Senators.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
May 23, 2020
Did the Browns move to Baltimore in 1995 and become the Ravens? So who are the Browns now? Aren't they still a team?

nevermind I looked it up.

ander217
+2
Level 75
May 23, 2020
Interesting that the St. Louis Browns (1901-1953) began as the Milwaukee Brewers, a name chosen for several ball clubs through the years in that city before appearing once again as today's National League Brewers, named for the early team which later became the Orioles. I can't imagine why you find that confusing. ;)
jf15
+4
Level 63
May 23, 2020
The Rams played in Cleveland before they went to L.A. the first time.
DaveH
+3
Level 48
May 23, 2020
You forgot the Cleveland Rams, prior to them moving to Los Angeles, 1936-45.
DonTheLamplighter
+3
Level 86
May 23, 2020
Way to nail the Colts' history, not including the original Colts team from 1950 that folded after 1 season after being absorbed from the old AAFC along with the Browns & 49ers.

While the Colts' NFL history officially began in 1953, their lineage, albeit threadbare at points, can be traced back to the Dayton Triangles of the inaugural 1920 season.

* 1920-29 Dayton Triangles

* 1930-43 Brooklyn Dodgers

* 1944 Brooklyn Tigers

* 1945 Brooklyn Tigers & Boston Yanks merge.

* 1946 Brooklyn's franchise revoked and Tigers' players assigned to the Boston Yanks.

* 1947-48 Boston Yanks

* 1949 New York Bulldogs - Owner wants to move to NY, so for tax reasons, Yanks fold and NFL gives him the new New York franchise, using the same players.

* 1950-51 New York Yanks

* 1952 Dallas Texans - with 5 games remaining in season, franchise turned over to NFL.

* 1953 Baltimore Colts added using Dallas Texans' assets & many of their players.

DonTheLamplighter
+4
Level 86
May 23, 2020
After WWII, my dad played semi-pro baseball in New Jersey and had an offer from the Boston Braves, but he didn't want to go that far away and turned it down. He was a switch-hitting center-fielder who hit for power & average and had tremendous speed. One season he hit over .400 and stole home on straight steals 7 times. By comparison, Lou Brock, who made the Hall of Fame as a base-stealer for the Cardinals, stole home twice in his entire career, both on the front end of double-steals. Different competition, of course, but you still have to be a very alert & fast player to beat the pitch home.

He taught me and my 2 older brothers to play. I was a switch-hitting center-fielder just like my dad, and was almost as fast as him. Almost.

Needless to say, watching "Field of Dreams" absolutely ruins me. :-)

ander217
+2
Level 75
May 23, 2020
Cool story. Thanks for sharing. Baseball is in my husband's family, too.
sumguy
+1
Level 86
Nov 18, 2024
Field of Dreams makes men whose dads are still alive cry.
CapDundas
+4
Level 62
May 23, 2020
The Rams, of course, are on their second stint in Los Angeles, but the franchise actually started in 1936 in Cleveland. They played there for nine years, won a championship in 1945, and promptly moved to LA, the only franchise in any sport, I believe, to leave town after winning a championship.
Chutney
+1
Level 62
May 23, 2020
add the damned thrashers
summerv68
+3
Level 69
Dec 17, 2020
1932 was the year the Brooklyn offically became the Dodgers. The franchise was founded in Brooklyn in 1884.
JesseFromThe6
+2
Level 69
Sep 2, 2023
Yeah, I don't know if any of their previous nicknames were official, but they were definitely called the Robins at one one point, and also the "Superbas", whatever that is.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Nov 15, 2024
Changed the year to 1883 when they were founded.
ap2571
+1
Level 20
Mar 1, 2021
i put nordiques with 2 seconds to spare
DeadpoolDX
+1
Level 72
Oct 2, 2021
Missed the LA Clippers were once the Buffalo Braves
Koopa
+1
Level 82
Dec 19, 2022
A couple of things:

Thank you for referring to the Ravens' past as the Browns (even though the NFL refuses to accept it).

Any reason why you didn't include the Rams' other city, like you did with other teams? They started in Cleveland before moving to LA (then St. Louis, and then LA).

Andrew169
+1
Level 76
Jan 24, 2023
Nice quiz, I got them all in 2:10. Since I am in Connecticut, a shout out to the Hartford Whalers!
CambodianQuizzer
+1
Level 70
Nov 12, 2024
RIP Oakland. Also, the Coyotes should be changed.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Nov 15, 2024
Removed the Coyotes as, according to the NHL, that team no longer exists and the unfortunately named "Utah Hockey Club" is an expansion team.
Koopa
+2
Level 82
Nov 15, 2024
Please do to Utah what you did with the Ravens. The league allowed the team to move, but made the decision to consider them an "expansion" team (fans know it's in name only). We all know the Ravens were the Cleveland Browns the year before, and that the Utah HC were the Arizona Coyotes the year before, despite what the leagues try to tell us.
sumguy
+2
Level 86
Nov 15, 2024
There was no expansion draft. Utah acquired all of the assets of the Arizona Coyotes, including the players. Calling them an expansion team is absurd. The NHL can call it what it wants, but everyone else knows that if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Nov 15, 2024
I agree with you.

But we're still not adding them to the quiz as this is not meant to be an exhaustive list.

RuthlessCosmo
+2
Level 75
Nov 30, 2024
Not to get all Bud Abbott on you but the Ducks are in Anaheim.
sumguy
+1
Level 86
Nov 15, 2024
All these teams and none departing Atlanta. The only city to lose two NHL teams.
Alexquiz17
+4
Level 92
Nov 16, 2024
In the UK, the fact that teams can up sticks and move to a different city / state is somewhat puzzling. The one example that I am aware of in this country was Wimbledon moving to Milton Keynes, but that caused an outcry and was heavily criticised.

English football clubs have longstanding and tangible links to fans and the local community, and this smacks of soulless commercial interest winning out over loyal sports fans.

sumguy
+2
Level 86
Nov 17, 2024
Yes, soulless commercial interest wins out over loyal sports fans, but it's also a consequence of another difference in North American sports.

As I understand it, Europe has different divisions and teams can move up or down. So, if a city isn't big enough to support a Premier League team, they eventually drop to Division I and continue on, and another city that is big enough to support a Premier League team moves up. In the NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB, etc, there's ~32 teams, and there's no lower division to get relegated to. If Atlanta can't support an NHL team, it can't just be relegated and then Calgary's Division I team gets promoted; the Atlanta team has to move to Calgary.

sumguy
+2
Level 86
Nov 17, 2024
Doing it this way has been a disaster for Canada. Southern Ontario is the largest hockey market in the world, with over 10 million people in a country where hockey is the most popular sport, and they have only one NHL team (the Toronto Maple Leafs). Demand for tickets so far exceeds supply that the Leafs can have the most expensive tickets in the league and sell out every game even if they're the worst team in the league.

Quebec City desperately wants it NHL team back, and southern Ontario could easily support another team in Hamilton or London, but the NHL has made its position clear that adding another team in Canada will do nothing to "grow the game", so they prefer to add teams to new markets like the Arizona desert, even if the teams are going to play in front of empty seats.

sumguy
+2
Level 86
Nov 17, 2024
The NHL is also steadfast that it doesn't want to be the first league to have 34 teams, despite wanting to have a team in every American major league city, and also having to have teams in the major Canadian cities. Most leagues have 31 American teams, and there could easily be 9 Canadian teams in the NHL, so it would take 40 teams to meet demand. That will never happen.

If, on the other hand, there were two 20-team leagues, with relegation and promotion between them, then every city that deserves a team could have one, and there would be incentive to actually put a good team on the ice to maintain their position in the top division.

Tomah135
+1
Level 60
Nov 16, 2024
If the Dodgers are from Brooklyn then the Giants should be from Manhattan. They're both from NYC
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Nov 16, 2024
Go back and time and tell the Dodgers that. Or, actually, don't because when they were founded Brooklyn was not yet part of NYC.
JohnLease
+1
Level 51
Nov 30, 2024
The Braves were in Boston from 1876, not 1912.
gzx5
+1
Level 73
Nov 30, 2024
How come you have you have every major sports league in North America except for the NHL?
sumguy
+1
Level 86
Dec 2, 2024
Colorado Avalanche = NHL
Braunie19
+1
Level 29
Dec 2, 2024
forgot the washington senators, now the minnesota twins
bigred34
+1
Level 50
Dec 3, 2024
I completely forgot about Vancouver being the original Grizzly. I am guessing the tax breaks weren't enough for an NBA team.
maispod
+1
Level 27
Feb 3, 2025
nets should be here
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