User:B.Wind/List of professional American football teams in greater New York City
List to be sectioned at User:B.Wind/List of professional American football teams in suburban New York City and User:B.Wind/List of professional American football teams in New York City; this list article will be a gateway; List of professional American football teams in New York will be a disambiguation page; List of professional American football teams in Brooklyn will be a redirect.
Note to editors. This is a scratchpad to organize the massive list of professional American football teams that played in greater New York City. This is listed by league to start; then the teams will be separated to "New York City", "Brooklyn", and "Greater New York". Competition years and most notable home field will be given, too. Reminder: the list consists of teams that played on the major league level (post-1920) and upper minor league level (1920-1950); the Canadian Football League and Arena Football League are included, but no XFL or AF1.
This will be the only page in this series in which the teams are not ordered chronologically by first season in a league.
APFA/NFL
New York Brickley Giants (NFL 1921) - Ebbets Field
New York Giants (NFL 1925-present) - Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium, Giants Stadium
Brooklyn Lions (NFL 1926) - Ebbets Field - merged with Brooklyn Horsemen (AFL I) and played under both names
New York Yankees (AFL 1926, NFL 1927-1928) - Yankee Stadium
Orange Tornadoes (NFL 1929) - Knights of Columbus Stadium; became Newark Tornadoes (NFL 1930) in 1930 (Newark Schools Stadium)
Staten Island Stapletons (NFL 1929-1931) - Thompson Stadium
Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL 1930-1945) - Ebbets Field - became Brooklyn Tigers in 1944; merged with Boston Yanks in 1946
New York Bulldogs (NFL 1949-1950) - merged with AAFC New York Yankees in 1950 to become the New York Yanks (1950-1951); played in Polo Grounds as Bulldogs, Yankee Stadium as Yanks
New York Yankees (AFL I 1926, NFL 1927-1928) - played in Yankee Stadium
Newark Bears (AFL I 1926) - Davids' Stadium - first team to fold in AFL I (played last game as the Demons)
Brooklyn Horsemen (AFL 1926, NFL 1926) - Commercial Field - merged with Brooklyn Lions midseason, played under both names
New York Yankees (AFL II 1936-1937) - played in Yankee Stadium and Triborough Stadium
Brooklyn Tigers (AFL II 1936) - Yankee Stadium; moved to Rochester and became Rochester Tigers (1936-1937)
New York Yankees (1940 AFL) (AFL III 1940-1941) - Yankee Stadium, Downing Stadium; became New York Americans in 1941
Brooklyn Bay Parkways (AA 1936-1939) became Brooklyn Eagles 1937
Passaic Red Devils (AA 1936)
Paterson Panthers (AA 1936-1950)
White Plains Bears (AA 1936-1937)
New Rochelle Bulldogs (AA 1936-1937)
Stapleton Buffaloes (AA 1936) - became New York Tigers traveling team in 1937; folded after first game as Tigers
Mount Vernon Cardinals (AA 1936-1937)
Orange Tornadoes (AA 1936-1941) - moved to Newark and became Newark Tornadoes in 1937; became Newark Bears in 1939 (1939-1941)
Brooklyn Bushwicks (AA 1937-1939) - became Union City Rams in 1938
Danbury Trojans (AA 1937-1939)
Jersey City Giants (AA 1938-1950) - became first NFL farm team after purchase of assets of Stapleton Buffaloes by New York Giants owner Tim Mara
Clifton Wessingtons (AA 1938)
Long Island Indians (AA 1940-1947) - collapse of team triggered sequence of events that destroyed the AA
New York Yankees (AA 1941) - started by Yankees (AFL III) owner Douglas Hertz after AA revoked Yankees' franchise
Newark Bombers (AA 1946-1947) - became Bloomfield Cardinals 1947
Brooklyn Brooks (AA 1950)
New York Yankees (1946-1949) - Yankee Stadium; merged with Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949, New York Bulldogs in 1950
Brooklyn Dodgers (1946-1948) - Ebbets Field; merged with New York Yankees in 1949
New York Jets (New York Titans 1961-1962, New York Jets 1963-) - played in Polo Grounds, Shea Stadium, Giants Stadium
New York Stars (1974) - played in Downing Stadium; moved midseason to Charlotte to become Charlotte Stars/Charlotte Hornets (1974-1975)
New Jersey Generals (1983-1985) - played in Giants Stadium
New York Knights (Arena 1988) - Madison Square Garden
New Jersey Red Dogs (Arena 1997-1998) - Madison Square Garden; became New Jersey Gladiators (1999-2002), moved to Las Vegas (2003-2007), then Cleveland (2008)
New York CityHawks (Arena 1998) - Madison Square Garden; became New England Sea Wolves (1999-2000) and Toronto Phantoms (2001-2002)
New York Dragons (2001-2008) - Madison Square Garden; originally Iowa Barnstormers (1995-2000)