# If your team leaves town... **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 9, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-team-leaves-town/624593 "2012-06-09T06:27:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-team-leaves-town/624593/21 "2012-06-10T03:21:28Z")
My post was obviously facetious since the original Milwaukee Brewers left town in 1902 (I believe). Since Milwaukee has a current Major League team, I am not actually fussed. I believe a current Seattle Mariner fan (whose original team was only in town for a year) would feel the same. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-team-leaves-town/624593/22 "2012-06-10T03:24:27Z")
OK, that was a “quick reply” to message # 18. (The reply options to messages on the SDMB make no effing sense…) ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-team-leaves-town/624593/23 "2012-06-10T03:30:13Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > You mean that team that was named for all those lakes in L.A? Oh wait they came from Minneapolis. Actually, I have read that the term “Lakers” came from the Oshkosh Lakers - the club team that moved to Minneapolis to become the Minneapolis Lakers. The lake referred to is Lake Winnebago. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-team-leaves-town/624593/24 "2012-06-10T04:24:54Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I don’t think there are too many Minneapolis Lakers fans left in this world. However, I am advised that the floor on which the Minneapolis Lakers played has been preserved as the floor of one of the bars at Target Field. For several decades the Chicago White Sox teetered on the brink of relocation. Now that their attendance is back in the toilet perhaps this talk will revive. If it happens I’m sure I will lose all interest in baseball. (Don’t even think about suggesting that other team in town.) The Sox sister team, the Chicago football Cardinals, did decamp in 1960. One of my South Side uncles remained a Cardinals fan until the end of his life. However my generation never knew the Cardinals and so adopted the Bears . . . although it was difficult when they played in Wrigley Field. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-team-leaves-town/624593/25 "2012-06-10T04:30:23Z")
If the Packers left…shit, I’d be a Browns fan, I hear they’re hiring. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-team-leaves-town/624593/26 "2012-06-10T13:45:05Z")
When the Minnesota North Stars left for Dallas, I pretty much stopped following hockey. I don’t root against the Dallas team, I just don’t care about them. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-team-leaves-town/624593/27 "2012-06-17T04:59:43Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > Actually, I have read that the term “Lakers” came from the Oshkosh Lakers - the club team that moved to Minneapolis to become the Minneapolis Lakers. The lake referred to is Lake Winnebago. The Minneapolis Lakers was formed in 1947 from the purchase of the disbanded Detroit Gems franchise in the NBL. They did not come from Oshkosh. They then moved into the BBA in 1948. The BBA and NBL merged to form the NBA. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-team-leaves-town/624593.md?page=1)