The Westchester Bulls were a minor league farm club of the NFL’s New York Giants in 1967 and 1968. The team played its home games out of Memorial Stadium in Mt. Vernon, New York. The Bulls moved to Long Island for the 1969 season.
The New York Nationals were a very short-lived Long Island-based entry in the lower division United Soccer League. The club existed for only one season in the summer of 1984. The Nationals set up shop at Hofstra University on Long Island, which was previously home to the early (pre-Pele) days of the NASL’s New York Cosmos in the early 1970’s and to the American Soccer League’s New York Apollo in the late 1970’s.
The New York Eagles were a nomadic/sporadic entry in the lower-division American Soccer League between 1978 and 1981 until years of bad debts and bounced checks finally sunk the club. The club drew poorly, as you might imagine from the team’s forlorn advertising brochure (left), showcasing the empty, rundown grandstand at Mt. Vernon’s Memorial Field in all its grainy, black-and-white decrepitude.
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