RedAlice":359bg59r said:
Erebus":359bg59r said:
Sometime in the 90s, the pro sports leagues decided that when a team moves, the name stays in the city and the team gets a new name in their new city.
Would that apply to the Rams or Raiders? They've both previously had those same names in L.A.
Give me one example of this ever happening in the NFL. I may not know the history that you seem to.
If you say this decision happened in the 90's then it would still be the LA Rams and St. Louis would not own the rights to the name. They moved in the 90's, 1995.
Didn't the Oilers also move in the 90's?
WTH is the "pro sports league"?
The last NFL teams to move and keep their names were the LA teams in the mid 90s. Before that, no NFL team moved and changed names since the 1940s. Then after 1995, the Browns moved in 1996 and Oilers moved in 1997 and both changed their names, hence why I said the trend started in the 90s.
The last baseball team to move was the Expos in 2005 and they changed their name. Before that, the A's, Braves, Dodgers, Giants, and Orioles all moved and kept their names. The only times a team moved and changed their name were the Washington Senators, because that name wouldn't make sense anywhere else, and the Seattle Pilots, probably because they had no history.
I don't follow basketball or hockey, so I was speaking out of my ass a little bit when I applied that statement to all four major sports leagues. The NBA apparently hasn't taken the same approach. The Sonics seem to be the exception, not the rule. But since I know about the Sonics and not other teams, I incorrectly assumed the NBA did the same thing. It appears the NHL has been doing this longer. Looking through the NHL's history, it looks like every team that has ever moved changed their name.
I read somewhere a long time ago that it was a conscious decision by the NFL to let names stay in a city, but I don't have a link to prove it.