Sports - Defunct Sports Teams, Retro Leagues

The New Orleans Pride was a Women's Professional Basketball League team from 1979 until the league folded following the 1980-81 WBL season. For both seasons, the team was coached by former NBA player and coach Butch Van Breda Kolff.  OS15946

The Garden State Bowl was an annual post-season college football bowl game played in East Rutherford, New Jersey, from 1978 until 1981. Freezing temperatures each year at the game, together with a lack of successful local college teams, contributed to the bowl game's demise.  OS15945

The Pittsburgh Phantoms were a Roller Hockey International team in 1994 that played their home games at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena.  OS16016

The Edmonton Sled Dogs were a member of the Roller Hockey International in 1994 until the franchise moved to Orlando, Florida and became the Orlando Rollergators in 1995. The Rollergators were purchased before the start of the 1996 and were renamed the Orlando Jackals. OS16017

You can sure have some fun in Kentucky with a Burger Beer and some horse racing. OS16030

Before they became the Orlando Rollergators in 1994, this Roller Hockey International team was known as the Edmonton Sled Dogs. OS16040

The Dallas Stallions were an inline hockey team that played at Reunion Arena in the Roller Hockey International league. OS16083

The Rhein Fire played in the World League of American Football (WLAF), later called NFL Europe, from 1995 until the league folded in 2007. Based in Dusseldorf, they won World Bowl titles in 1998 and 2000. OS16115

The Berlin Thunder played in the World League of American Football (WLAF) in 1999. They played until the league folded in 2007 and captured the World Bowl title in 2001, 2002, and 2004. OS16116

The Cologne Centurions played in the league formerly known as World League of American Football (WLAF), from 2003 until the league folded in 2007. OS16117

The Barcelona Dragons were charter members of the World League of American Football (WLAF) and played from 1991 until 2003. They won the World Bowl in 1997. OS16118

The Toronto-Buffalo Royals, or sometimes called the Buffalo-Toronto Royals, were a charter franchise of World Team Tennis (WTT). The Royals played half of their home matches in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and the other half in Buffalo, New York. The Royals played only one season before being sold and moving to Hartford,...

The Toronto Tornados were a professional basketball team in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) that played from 1983 to December 1985. OS16120

The Calgary Tigers, often nicknamed the Bengals, were an ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada from 1920 until 1927 as members of the Big-4 League, Western Canada Hockey League and Prairie Hockey League. The Tigers were revived in 1932, playing for a short-lived four years in the North Western Hockey League and...

The Baltimore Skipjacks were a minor league ice hockey team and was renamed from the Clippers to Skipjacks in 1981. The Skipjacks went on to play the following season in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League and continued played after for eleven seasons as members of the American Hockey League (AHL), from 1982...

The Montreal Voyagers, or Vees, were a minor league hockey team that played from 1969–1971 as an affiliate of the Montreal Canadiens. OS16144

The Maine Mariners was actually two separate professional ice hockey teams in the American Hockey League. They both played in Portland, Maine, at the Cumberland County Civic Center from 1977 to 1987, as the first franchise, and 1987 to 1992, as the second franchise....

The Cornwall Royals were a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 1969 to 1981 and then the Ontario Hockey League from 1981 to 1991. They were based in Cornwall, Ontario and won the Memorial Cup Championship in 1972, 1980, and 1981. OS16146

The Seattle Totems were a professional ice hockey franchise and was a member of the Pacific Coast Hockey League (renamed the Western Hockey League in 1952) between 1944 and 1974. In their last season of existence, the Totems played in the Central Hockey League in the 1974–75 season. They played their home games in the Civic...

The Binghamton Whalers were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League, playing in Binghamton, New York at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena. OS16148

The Buffalo Bisons were an American Hockey League ice hockey team that played from 1940 to 1970 in Buffalo, New York, replacing the original Buffalo Bisons hockey team that left in 1936 after its arena collapsed.   OS16149

Toledo, Ohio was in the International Hockey League’s minor league hockey for nearly four decades from 1947 to 1986. The Toledo Mercurys were the original franchise (1947-1962), followed by the Blades (1963-1970), then the Toledo Hornets (1970-1974) and finally the Goaldiggers (1974-1986). OS16150

The Columbus Minks were one of the debut teams in the Women’s American Basketball Association that started in early October 1984 with six teams: the Atlanta Comets, Chicago Spirit, Columbus Minks, Dallas Diamonds, Houston Shamrocks and the Virginia Wave. OS16151

This Baltimore Skipjacks design features the inaugural Skipjacks logo used in the 1981–82 season while they were in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League. OS16152

The Buffalo Bisons were a professional International Hockey League team in Buffalo, New York, who played their home games in nearby Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, at Peace Bridge Arena. OS16169

The Syracuse Blazers were a minor league ice hockey team that played in the Onondaga County War Memorial and State Fair Coliseum in Syracuse, New York. The Blazers were in the Eastern Hockey League from 1967 to 1973 and the North American Hockey League from 1973 to 1977. OS16180

The Syracuse Salts, Syracuse Salt, were a professional softball team based in Syracuse, New York who played at Hopkins Road Field in Liverpool, New York in the United Professional Softball League (UPSL) in 1981. OS16181

The Amsterdam Admirals were a professional football team based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, playing in the World League of American Football from 1995 to 2007. OS16182

The Iowa Chops were a minor Professional hockey team based in Des Moines, IA playing in the American Hockey League from 2008 to 2009. OS16196

In 2010, the Connecticut Whale ice hockey team played in Hartford, Connecticut in the American Hockey League (AHL).  OS16254