I think it would be kind of funny if there were entities of sports teams from the same cities with the same name from different sports. Especially if it was the same ownership group. I think it would be funny if they pumped Utah Jazz basketball and Utah Jazz hockey and promoted them as one organization in different sports. Especially since it's the same owner.
There's countless examples of two different teams in different sports from the same city sharing a name (Colorado Rockies being one) but I can't think of many that were both active at the same time.
There were both the New York baseball Giants and New York football Giants at one point. I still think it's weird when people say ''New York FOOTBALL Giants!'' considering it's been like 75 years since there was a New York baseball Giants. I don't think they need to be differentiated when talking present times. I have no idea if there were ever both owned by the same people at that time.
One other one that comes to mind were the St. Louis Cardinals of the NFL who were there at the same time as the St. Louis Cardinals of the MLB. Before they moved to Arizona.
Wasn't it Rockin'Rollers or something like that? I always thought that was a lame name.
That Cardinals and Giants thing was deliberate. Baseball was the top sport. Football teams came later and usually played in baseball stadiums, so they named the football teams after them.
Giants: teams played at the Polo Gounds for decades until they both moved in the 50s.
Cardinals: both teams played in Sportsman’s Park in the 1960s.
Cubs/Bears: the Bears played at Wrigley until 1970.
Tigers/Lions: The football team changed their name after the Tigers won the World Series in 1935, and played in Tigers Stadium until 1975.
Pirates/ Steelers: Steelers were originally named Pirates and kept the colors when they were re-named. Both teams played at Forbes Field until 69-70.
Some Defunct NFL teams:
Washington (DC) Senators (1921)
New York Yankees (1927-29, played you know where)
Cleveland Indians (1931, played in Cleveland Municipal Stadium)
Cincinnati Reds (1933-34, played in Crosley Field)
Brooklyn Dodgers (1930-43, played in Ebbets Field)
And this is all an excuse to tell the story of how the Redskins got their terrible original name. (As opposed to their new terrible name.)
When the team started in Boston in 1932 they played at Braves Stadium, home of the National League Boston Braves, so the football team was creatively named the Boston Braves.
But they switched to Fenway Park the next season. The owner had already planned to update the logo/branding in 1933, really leaning in on Native American imagery, before they decided to switch stadiums.
But they couldn’t call themselves the Braves after moving.
They wanted a name that tied them to the Red Sox and allowed them to keep their branding, and that’s how they ended up with the worst possible choice.
They later claimed other bullshit reasons for the name, that were very bullshit, including honoring their allegedly (but not really) Native American coach William Henry Dietz.
They were a flop in Boston, so they moved to DC in 1937, and kept the terrible name.
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