1920-1970 The Names of Teams Who Have Been Apart of Professional Football

The following information illustrates the original to the present day teams through the first 50 years of Professional Football

1920 Chicago Cards
1920 - 25 Rock Island Independents
1920 Decatur Staleye
1921 Chicago Bears to present day *
1921 to present day Greenbay Packers *
1921-22 Evansville Crimson Giants
1921,23,25,27,31 Cleveland Rams
1921,24,29,30 Minnesota Marines
1921-1925 Rochester Jefffersons
1921- 26 Colombus Tigers
1921 - 27 Boston Braves
1922-23,26 Louisville Colonels
1922-23 Toledo Maroons
1922-24,26 Racine Legion
1922-26 Milwaukee Badgers
1923 St. Louis Browns
1923 - 27 Duluth Eskimos
1924 Kenosa Maroons
1924 - 26 Kansas City Cowboys
1924-31 Frankford Yellowjackets
1925 New York Giants to present day*
1925 - 28 Pottsville Maroons
1926 Los Angeles Buccaneers
1926 Hartford Blues
1926 Hammon Pros
1927 - 28 New York Yankees
1929 Boston Braves
1929 Dayton Triangles
1929 Orange NJ Tornadoes
1929 - 32 Staten Island Stapletons
1930 Newark Tornados
1930 - 33 Portsmouth Spartans
1932 - 36 Boston Redskins
1933 - 40 Pittsburgh pirates
1933 - 34 Cincinnati Reds
1933 Philadelphia Eagles get Their start * In 1940 the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh franchises exchange cities. Pirates become Eagles and Eagles become Steelers
1934 St. Louis Gunners
1934 Detroit Lions Get Their start *
1937 Cleveland Rams then move to Los Angeles 1946 *
1937 Redskins move to Washington *
1940 to present day Pittsburgh Steelers *
1948 Boston Yanks
1949 New York Bulldogs
1950 - 51 New York Yanks
1950 San Francisco 49ers get their start *
1950 Cleveland Browns get their start *
1960 Minnesota Vikings get their start *
1960 Cardinals move to St. Louis *
1960 Dallas Cowboys get their start *
1965 Atlanta Falcons get their start *
1966 New Orleans Saints get their start *
1970 AFL teams join the NFL