The Vancouver Millionaires were established in 1911 and were charter members of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. In 1924, they joined the Western Canada Hockey League for two seasons.
The Arizona Outlaws were a pro football team that competed in the third and final season of the United States Football League in the spring of 1985. The team emerged from the merger of the USFL’s Arizona Wranglers and Oklahoma Outlaws franchises in December 1984.
The Seattle Steelheads were members of the West Coast Negro Baseball Association (WCNBA) in that circuit’s only season, 1946. The team was actually the Harlem Globetrotters baseball club and returned to barnstorming when the WCNBA ceased operations.
The Cleveland Crusaders were one of twelve original franchises in the World Hockey Association in the winter of 1972-73. The franchise originally intended to play in Calgary. But after hitting a dead end in Alberta, the club ended up in Cleveland, where they skated for seven seasons.
Back in the winter of 1983, a maniacal coach named George Allen auditioned more than 3,000 men to play for his Chicago Blitz franchise in the start-up United States Football League. Allen, who was (apocryphally) killed via by Gatorade bath at the hands of his own players in 1990 and (actually)
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