Speaking of the Warriors, they started in Philadelphia in 1946, moved to San Francisco in 1961, then to Oakland in 1972.
For completeness the Packers played half? Their home games in Milwaukee for several years.
Brian
Up through the 90’s the Packers did indeed play some of their home games in Milwaukee, but it wasn’t half. It was more like 3 games a year.
Which was only 3/7ths of the home games when the teams played 14 games a year.
Not one of the leagues in the OP, but may I propose a honorable mention 4 time transient from the old North American Soccer League?
Washington Darts came over from the ASL and were in the NASL from 1970-71
Miami Gatos 1972-1976
Somewhere during that time they became the Miami TOROS
Fort Lauderdale Strikers 1977-1983
Minnesota Strikers 1984 then Major Indoor Soccer League until 1988
Not only did this franchise play in 4 different cities, under 5 nicknames, but they played in 3 different leagues!
The Packers played half their games in Milwaukee for a long while when the NFL was a 12 game season. Paging through Wikipedia, looks like they went to a 4-2 split a year after “New” City Stadium (now Lambeau) was opened in 1958, then went back to a 4-3 split when the schedule expanded to 14 games in 1961. When the schedule expanded to 16 games in 1978 it looks like they switched between 3 and 4 games in Milwaukee for a few years before settling on 3. In the strike year of 1982, they only played a single game in Green Bay.
The Green Bay/Milwaukee split still lives on in their season ticket packages. There is a 5 game “Green” package and a 3 game “Gold” package, which is their old Milwaukee County Stadium season ticket holders.
And Shea Stadium in NYC for 1975
Sorry for getting off topic, but I find this too interesting not to mention: In 1975 Shea Stadium hosted the Mets, the Yankees (while Yankee Stadium was under renovation), the Jets AND the Giants. Since the NFL games could not be scheduled until the conclusion of the baseball season, the Jets and Giants were forced to double up on some weekends, with the Giants playing on Saturday and the Jets on Sunday.
I can only imagine the clusterf*** that would have resulted if either the Mets or Yankees had made the playoffs that year.
We may have another contender here.
In 1944 the Boston Yanks began NFL play. In 1949 owner Ted Collins asked the league to revoke his franchise and grant him a new one, which became the New York Bulldogs, then renamed the Yanks. The Yanks folded after the 1951 season, and the franchise was either returned to or revoked by the NFL. However, the Yanks’ player contracts were bought entirely by the owners of the new Dallas Texans. The Texans folded after a season and the franchise was then awarded to Baltimore, where it became the second version of the Baltimore Colts, which was the franchise that moved to Indianapolis.
I realize there’s more than a bit of the Ship of Theseus/George Washinton’s axe dilemma here. But Dan Edwards, Brad Ecklund, George Taliaferro, Sisto Averno, Zollie Toth, Art Donovan, Barney Poole and Buddy Young all played for three of those franchises in different cities. They deserve some kind of prize for “Players who have been moved the most without being traded or released.”
If you really want to stretch it, the Oakland Raiders were founded in 1960 after the AFL had already held its initial draft, including the Minnesota franchise. When those owners got an offer from the NFL for an expansion team, they dropped the AFL deal. The hurriedly-established Oakland team took the rights to all the players the Minnesota franchise had drafted. So even though the team didn’t move, the players did.
In 1972, LA Rams owner Bob Irsay and Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom traded teams - officially the Rams moved to Baltimore and the Colts to LA, then swapped names and players etc.
In a similar deal in 1978, Buffalo Braves owner Irv Levin traded his franchise to Boston Celtics owner John Y. Brown and moved his new team to San Diego. You could claim the now-LA Clippers are the “true” Celtics if you want.