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dilbert firestorm · 05-30-2022, 09:59 PM

doh... it never occurred to me that PA has 2 football teams. eagles and steelers. for some reason I never made the connection.

VitaMan · 05-30-2022, 10:39 PM

Somehow the Pittsburgh Pirates came up with one of the jewels in baseball when they had Roberto Clemente.

lustylad · 05-30-2022, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

doh... it never occurred to me that PA has 2 football teams. eagles and steelers. for some reason I never made the connection.

There's more - in 1943, the NFL pro football season was trimmed due to WW2. Pittsburgh and Philly pooled their available players into a single team called the "Steagles".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steagl...rld%20War%20II.

dilbert firestorm · 05-31-2022, 10:34 PM

I knew california, NY, Florida have multiple teams, not PA go figure.

California was the first state to have 3 teams, now reduced to two. NY has 2 (technically its 1 since one of the teams play in new joisey), Texas has 2 and Florida has 3.

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Originally Posted by lustylad

There's more - in 1943, the NFL pro football season was trimmed due to WW2. Pittsburgh and Philly pooled their available players into a single team called the "Steagles".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steagl...rld%20War%20II.

very interesting historical info.