Sports - Defunct Sports Teams, Retro Leagues

The Louisville Breckenridges, or Brecks for short, were members of the National Football League from 1921 to 1924.

The Atlanta Apollos began as the Atlanta Chiefs and played in the National Professional Soccer League in 1967. When that league merged with the Untied Soccer Association to form the North American Soccer League, the Chiefs followed. The team was sold in 1973 and...

League Park was a baseball stadium built in 1891, and rebuilt in 1910, at the corner of East 66th and Lexington in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland. Besides the Indians, it was home to the Cleveland Spiders, as well as the Negro American League...

After the original Cleveland Force of the MISL folded in 1988, the city was granted an expansion franchise to begin play the following season. The Crunch played for 3 seasons in the MISL before jumping to the NPSL in 1992. They joined the second...

The Atlanta Silverbacks are a soccer club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The team was founded in 1998 as Atlanta Ruckus, the club has played in many leagues over the years. The team plays its home games at Atlanta Silverbacks Park, a large soccer complex...

The original American Basketball Association (ABA) was founded in 1967 as a challenger to the established NBA. After fierce competition between the two for fans and players, 4 ABA teams were absorbed by the NBA in 1976. The Kentucky Colonels, the league's most successful...

The Michigan Stags played in the World Hockey Association arriving in Detroit in 1974. They were previously the Los Angeles Sharks from 1972 until their move to the Motor City. Halfway through their only season in Michigan they moved to Baltimore and became the...

The Detroit Wheels were charter members of the World Football League in 1974 but played in only 14 games of the 20 game schedule before folding. Things became so dire toward the end, a home game against the Portland Storm was relocated to London,...

The iconic "D" logo is synonymous with the city of Detroit, Michigan and their baseball team, the Detroit Tigers.

The Detroit Express played in the old North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1978 to 1980. Its home field was the Pontiac Silverdome. They also participated in the NASL indoor league during the 1979/80 and 1980/81 seasons.

Louisville Lightning were an indoor soccer team based in Louisville, Kentucky and joined the Professional Arena Soccer League in 2009. The Lightning played three full seasons in the PASL before going on hiatus after the 2011 12 season. In a March 2013 interview, team...

The Louisville Bulls??were a semi-pro football team that played from 1988 to 2011. For their first two seasons they played as an independent team. In 1990 they joined the Hearts of Ohio Football League (HFL) leaving that circuit in 1992 to join the Mid...

The Louisville RiverFrogs were a ice hockey team competing in Louisville, Kentucky in the East Coast Hockey League. The team played from 1995 to 1998 at Broadbent Arena, which was nicknamed "The Swamp" at the Kentucky Exposition Center. The team's mascot was Rowdy River...

It's a "wheel" of fun at Brooklyn's favorite bike rental, kayak rental, and bike tour company, Wheel Fun Rentals.

Sambo's was a chain of sit-down restaurants that at its peak had over 1,100 locations in 47 states.

The Brooklyn Dodgers were members of the NFL from 1930 to 1943, playing their home games at Ebbets Field. In 1944, they were renamed the Tigers, a name used by a team in the second American Football League in 1936. In 1945, they merged...

The Brooklyn Tigers football team was established in 1936 and played in the second loop to call itself the American Football League. Before the end of its inaugural season, the team moved to Rochester. It folded, along with the rest of the league, after...

The Brooklyn Tip-Tops??were a team that played in the Federal League??of professional baseball from 1914 to 1915. The team was named by Robert Ward who owned the team and the Tip-Top Bakery.

It was Willard Mullin, a noted sports cartoonist, who affectionately dubbed the Brooklyn Dodgers with the nickname "Dem Bums".

Secret Stadium Sauce is a condiment found only at Milwaukee Brewers baseball games in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and served on hot dogs and brats at Miller Park.