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Pipers was the original nickname of Pittsburgh's American Basketball Association team. They began play in 1967, the league's inaugural season. After winning the championship, they moved to Minnesota, then moved back to Pittsburgh the following year. A year later they were the Pittsburgh Condors....

The Columbus Thunderbolts of the Arena Football League (AFL) were established in 1991 and played their home games in the Expo Center. Their coach was Earl Bruce. In 1992, they moved to Cleveland, folding after the 1994 season. The AFL returned to Columbus in...

Established in 1942 as W83C, this legendary Chicago radio station changed its call letters several times before becoming WLUP "The Loop 97.9" in 1977. For the next 41 years it was one of the most popular and influential radio station's in America. It is...

Before the Buccaneers, before the Lightning, Tampa Bay’s first pro sports champions weren’t on the gridiron or the ice—they were on the soccer pitch. In their inaugural season, the Tampa Bay Rowdies shocked the sports world by winning the 1975 NASL title, introducing Florida...

Before major league hockey arrived in Columbus, the city had many minor league teams. None were more popular than the Columbus Chill. In 1991, the team debuted as an expansion franchise in the East Coast Hockey League (now just the ECHL, thank you). Their...

Ballantine Ale was established in 1840 and was once the most popular ale in America. In popular culture it is known as the favorite beer of Marty Crane on the TV series??Fraser.

The Blues were Kansas City's AAA minor league baseball team from 1902 to 1954. They played in the American Association and were charter members of that circuit. In 1954, when the A's moved to town from Philadelphia, the Blues moved to Denver and became...

Looney T Birds opened in Oxford, Ohio, home of Miami Univeristy, in 1984 and was the premier record shop in Oxford for nearly 20 years. It's convenient downtown location and relationship with WOXY helped cement its place in Tristate music history.??

It's been called one of the worst-kept secrets in sports. Who was Mr. America...?

WYDD first signed on in 1967 as a jazz station. In the '70s it switched to a more progressive, free-form AOR format, before flipping to top 40 in the '80s. As top 40 stations go, though, it was pretty adventurous, playing songs that were...

Sivils Drive-In opened in Houston in 1938. After an article in?????Life?????magazine, a Dallas location was opened in 1940. A Birmingham location was later added to the chain.

The New Jersey Meadowlands, also known as the Hackensack Meadowlands after the primary river flowing through it, is the general name for the large ecosystem of wetlands in northeastern New Jersey,?? a few miles west of New York City. Sports fans are familiar with...

Jungle Habitat was a wildlife theme park located in West Milford, New Jersey. It opened in July 1972 and closed at the end of October 1976.??The park hosted over 1,500 animals. It featured both drive-through and walk-through sections. The drive-through section was an animal...

The Pilots joined baseball's junior circuit in 1969, playing their home games at Sick's Stadium. Poor play and mounting financial challenges forced the team to be sold to used car dealer Bed Selig, who moved the team to Milwaukee where they became the Brewers. READ...

The??Omaha Nighthawks were established in 2010 as an expansion team in the United Football League. Their homefield in 2010 was old??Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium. In 2011 they moved into??TD Ameritrade Park.??They played three seasons before folding along with the rest of the league after the...

The Norfolk Neptunes played in the Continental Football League (CoFL) from 1966 to 1969 and the Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL) in 1970 and 1971. Their home was??Foreman Field??on the campus of??Old Dominion University??in Norfolk. The Neptunes were one of the most successful minor...

Former neighborhood troublemaker, and some time loan shark, Kelly Leak became a star outfielder for the Bears.

Red Barn was founded in 1961 in Dayton. The chain, which served hamburgers and fish in addition to fried chicken, grew to over 400 locations in 19 states before shutting down in 1986.

The Birmingham Fire??were charter members of the NFL-run World League of American Football (WLAF) in 1991. In their first season the Fire finished with a 5 and 5 record but qualified for the playoffs. They lost to the Barcelona Dragons in the semi-final. The...

Boston's third pro football team, after the Braves/Redskins (1933-1936) and Yanks (1944-1948), were founded in 1959 as charter members of the new AFL. In 1970, the team changed it's geographical name to Bay State, before switching to New England a few months later, the...

Charter members of the American Professional Football Association (APFA) in 1920, the Akron Pros were also that circuits first champions. Two years later the APFA became the National Football League. The Pros changed their name to the Indians in 1926 and folded at the...

The Portland Eagles played in the Pacific Coast Hockey League from 1944 until 1951.

Cotton Club Bottling began in 1902 as Miller and Becker Bottlers. In addition to bottling its own flavors under the Cotton Club name, the company was also the Northeast Ohio bottler for Royal Crown (RC) Cola, Diet Rite, Vernors, Squirt, Hires, Schwepps, Evian, and...

The Indianapolis Olympians were formed in 1949, the same year the combined Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League became the National Basketball Association or NBA. They folded in 1953. Pro basketball would not return to the city until 1967 when the...

The Vulcans played in the Continental Football League (CoFL), a tier below the NFL and AFL, for part of the 1967 season. Akron was excited to have a pro football team, but the fun only lasted four games before the team ran out of...

It was the place "where pineapples grow." A Highway 27 institution in Florida, Plantation Paradise, colloquially known as Pineapple Paradise, was a popular attraction Lake Placid on the road from Orlando to Miami.

On Thursday, July 11, 1974, the Jacksonville Sharks opened the inaugural World Football League season against the New York Stars before 59,112 fans at the Gator Bowl. More big crowds followed-- until it was revealed most of the tickets and been given away or...

This iconic video game first appeared in video arcades in North America in 1987. Home video game versions for various systems followed including the Commodore 64, NES, Game Boy, and Amiga.

The Sacramento Surge were charter members of the NFL-run World League of American Football (WLAF). The Surge won the World Bowl in 1992, but after the WLAF ended its American presence at the end of the 1992 season, they moved to the Canadian Football...

Initially awarded to the province of Ontario in 1972 for the first season of the World Hockey Association (WHA), the team originally planned to play in Toronto at Maple Leaf Gardens, and when that fell through, nearby Hamilton. When the season began, they were...