Airman Doors, the Pilots should be allowed. After all, the team first mentioned in this thread became the Baltimore Orioles.
I think part of the Pilots’ problem was their stadium. Who’d want to see a ballgame at Sick’s Stadium?
Patrick I think you’re right about Duluth. They were basically a barnstorming team to show off Ernie Nevers.
BTW, do you know that Nevers was responsible for Babe Ruth hitting 60 home runs? As a pitcher, he gave up three of them. 
The **Portland Timbers ** of the North American Soccer League who were a startup team in 1975. The Timbers went all the way to the Soccer Bowl 75 only to lose to Tampa Bay 2-0.
The team had great public support (everybody likes a winner) and attendance jumped from 15,000 to over 20,000 for the next season, where they finished 3rd in the western division. Attendance fell to 13,000 the next season and kept falling to under 9,000 for the 1982 season, their last.
The name was revived in 1989 (after being FC Portland 1985-1988) for the WSA North Division and in 1990 for the APSL West Conference. The Portland ** Firebirds ** appeared in the 1995 season of the USISL and then vanished.
This month, the Timbers name was revived for an A League team and will play in a massively rebuilt stadium. Lotsa luck.
The Atlanta Crackers. (Minor league baseball.) Used to play at the old stadium on Ponce de Leon Avenue, the location of which is now occupied by a Home Depot. (Sigh.) They had a big magnolia tree in the outfield, which, I believe, is still growing there.
Or maybe the Atlanta Black Crackers, the Negro League edition.
IMO, if a team moves and changes its name, then the old team is history. Two teams I will miss are the Quebec Nordiques and Hartford Whalers.
Quebec had these cool light blue and white uniforms. When they moved to Colorado and became the Avalanche, they got new uniforms. They have to be the ugliest sweaters in the NHL. I also liked Quebec because you could listen to the radio broadcasts in French.
I liked Hartford (now Carolina Hurricanes) because they were always the worst team to make the playoffs and its always fun to root for the underdog.
When these teams moved, they kind of lost their identity. I’m not a fan of either team any more.
What is WRONG with you people.
The Washington Senators. Both of them.
Baseball in DC. NOW!
Hey Florida! Do me a favor and don’t fund that stadium, okay? That’s a pal!