Truly dreadful semi-pro football team that absorbed seven straight lopsided defeats during the summer of 1977 before deciding to fold up their tent. Incredibly, the Houston Seagulls produce an NFL success story despite their short & woeful life. 24-year old cement truck driver and ex-Seagull Johnnie Dirden walked into Houston Oilers training camp the following spring and made the team as a kick returner. Dirden went on to a 5-year career in the NFL and USFL.
The Pacific Suns were a rather cursed minor league baseball outfit that struggled through a single summer of play in Oxnard, California in 1998. The team played on the campus of Oxnard College and were the first pro baseball team to set up shop in Ventura County since the departure of the equally short-lived Ventura County Gulls in 1986.
The Mississippi Coast Gamblers were a penniless minor league basketball outfit that staggered through a single campaign in the low budget United States Basketball League during the summer of 1994. The Gamblers played at Biloxi’s Mississippi Coast Coliseum. 8-year NBA veteran Terry Catledge was the team’s best known player.
Continental Basketball Association (2001-2002) Born: August 2001 – CBA expansion franchise Moved: September 4, 2002 (Great Lakes Storm) First Game: December 1, 2001 (L 107-106
The Atlantic City Blackjacks were an Arena Football League expansion club that played for one season during the summer of 2019. After the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority committed a half million dollars to outfit Boardwalk Hall for Arena Football, the Blackjacks would play just six home games in the building before the Arena Football League declared bankruptcy and disbanded in November 2019.
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