So there is a football team in Brooklyn

from the 90s Giants

to act as a feeder program?

I think it was in the late 1960s and the Giants brought in a QB named Kennedy (Tom?).

threw a lot of knuckleballs; the qb father of joe pisarcek

threw a lot of knuckleballs; the qb father of joe pisarcek

?

by the 1992 Defense against his crappy schemes

Pepper said they would call their own defenses

i used to play for the brooklyn mariners and queens chiefs in tri state semi pro league ib the 70's and 80's

In 1966, the team was run by Andy Robustelli...the Giants considered signing Terry Baker but purchased Kennedy's contract for $20,000.

More about the Contiental League here:
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new league is giving out some package deals



One Football Game Ticket
One Team Baseball Cap and One $7 Food Voucher
Choice of Two Game Dates
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Kicking off their inaugural season this October, the Brooklyn Bolts are bringing the hard-nosed Fall Experimental Football League to Coney Island. Following the same rules as the pros, this team will suit up in black and gold inside MCU Park against three other teams in the FXFL -- the Florida Blacktips, Omaha Mammoths, and Boston Brawlers. Use this deal to get your family to one of these exciting games and enjoy the concessions included the package as you root for Brooklyn's newest home team.

$35 ($60 value) for one ticket package, including:
• One ticket valid for October 15 or November 7
• One team baseball cap
• One $7 food voucher

on the field DURING the game? lol



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Fall Experimental Football League to Coney Island. Following the same rules as the pros,

How could it be experimental, but follow the same rules?

there was also a brooklyn dodger and NY yankee football teams in the league with cleveland browns in the 40's giants got most of the players from those teams when that league either folded or was absorbed into nfl

It wasn't supposed to be but somehow the Giants got the best players from the Yankees when the AAFC folded:

1-18-1950
When representatives of the two New York teams could not agree on the six players to be transferred, NFL comissioner Bert Bell drew names from a hat...the six players assigned to the Giants were Ends Otto Schnellbacher, Dan Garza, Backs Harman Rowe and Tom Landry, Tackle Arnie Weinmeister and Guard John Mastrangelo...the remaining NY Yankees players were to be transferred to the New York Bulldogs.

Meanwhile the Giants drove their fellow NFL compatriots then called the Bulldogs to insolvency by controlling the best stadium dates, having to pay fees, ect.

In comment 11879939 Defenderdawg said:

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Meanwhile the Giants drove their fellow NFL compatriots then called the Bulldogs to insolvency by controlling the best stadium dates, having to pay fees, ect.

John Mara was allowed - even encouraged in a way - to to this by NFL PResident Joe Carr. One of the unintended consequences from the fallout of the first AFL after 1926 was the new franchise charter granted to the Brooklyn Lions. Mara gave them a loan during the season to keep them afloat (in attempt to keep C.C. Pyle putting another team in Ebbets Field) which they defaulted on when the franchise and league both folded.

To help recoup his money, Mara was granted the Brooklyn charter to Mara to lease to any team that wanted to play within the five boroughs. These teams would include the New York Yankees (1927-28), Staten Island Stapeltons (1929-32), Brooklyn Dodgers/Tigers (1930-44) and New York Bulldogs/Yanks (1949-51).

One of the stipulations of the charter was the Giants had first choice of home dates and were able to put limitations of conflicting home dates. Those stipulations were relaxed for the Brooklyn and Staten Island teams, but were strictly enforced against the teams playing in Yankee Stadium, as it was within walking distance of the Polo Grounds.

The New York Yanks moved in 1952 and spent one season as the Dallas Texans. They had no luck there either. The owners abandoned the team halfway through the season and the NFL took the franchise over. During the offseason the charter was sold and the franchise was reborn in Baltimore as the new Colts.

before the 1949 move to New York. So there is actually a lineage of both those New York franchises woven into the early Colts.

Between Mara's smart decisions and some decisions that are brilliant in the calculating Sam Pollock sort of way (the Canadiens GM who set up NHL expansion with an eye toward benefitting Montreal).

The alternate explanation to the dispersal of the AAFC Yankees players is that Ted Collins failed to show and as a result Commissioner Bert Bell made the Bulldogs selections for Collins...advantage Mara...

The NY territorial rights may have been good for the NFL originally but even without Collins wild spending ways the indemnity he had to pay ( I've heard it was $200,000) and the totally unattractive dates he had for home games were losers in and of themselves...

So whether being smart, fortunate or shrewd it all went Mara's way.

In comment 11879083 hankb1126 said:

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i used to play for the brooklyn mariners and queens chiefs in tri state semi pro league ib the 70's and 80's

Since I have always played against the Mariners, I hate you for no reason

Mara and Bell when Collins merged with the New York Yankees of the AAFC.

That move cost Elmer Layden his position as President of the NFL and Bell's installment as the first commissioner. Plus, Mara had a personal dislike for Dan Topping who owned the Yankees.