I read that Sunday's New York Football Giants game against the Dolphins was their 1200th regular season game. They joined an elite group that include the Green Bay Packers, the Chicago Bears, and the Chicago-St. Louis-Phoenix-Arizona Cardinals.
It's very cool and bizarre to think of the Cardinals as one of the O.G. teams in the NFL. Trying to picture that and assimilate it into your perception of the league is the fun part.
Kinda like...did you know that the Sacramento Kings are one of the O.G. basketball teams, like the Celtics and the Knickerbockers. They started as the Rochester Royals. Seriously, Rochester. Other places with professional basketball teams during the infancy of the NBA: Ft. Wayne and Syracuse (now the Pistons and Sixers, respectively).
And, while this next team may not be as beleaguered, forgotten, or as irrelevant in it's home city, it always fills me with wonderment remembering that the Minnesota Twins are older than the Yankees. The team that moved to Minneapolis after the 1960 season was the Washington Senators.
In a related post coming up, I discuss expansion team nicknames and color schemes and how they come about (in certain cases).
While the Twins haven't been the vagabond/doormats in the style of the NBA Kings or NFL Cardinals (they even won two World Series), they were one of the teams put up for contraction in the last decade.
No respect for these O.G. teams.
NFL Cardinals won two World Series? Wow... how did I sleep through that?? I actually follow the cardinals now.. Larry Fitzgerald, Beanie Wells..they looked great the first half of Sunday's game... then they sort of drizzled... I was not aware they were an OG franchise however.. that is amazing... as for the Sac Kings... sad team horrible owners...
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