The Chicago Rockets were charter members of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), a league that attempted to rival the National Football League for pro football supremacy in the post-WWII years of 1946-1949. The Rockets were the city’s third pro football team, joining the NFL’s Bears and Cardinals. In 1949, the team was sold and renamed the Hornets. They folded when the NFL absorbed three AAFC, the Hornets not being one of them.
The Chicago Hornets were a one-year wonder in the All-America Football Conference, a league that attempted to rival the National Football League for pro football supremacy in the post-WWII years of 1946-1949. The Hornets arrived on the scene just in time to take part in the AAFC’s final season, before getting contracted 10 months later in the December 1949 merger of the AAFC and the NFL. The Chicago market went to the NFL’s Bears (and Cardinals), while the Hornets vanished into the dustbin of history.
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