What is the oldest professional sports team?(of any sport)?
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either liverpool soccer or the cincinatti red stockings as they were called back in the days...
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The oldest contuinous opeartions of a team are with the Arizona Cardinals which started as the Morgan Athletic club on Chicago's South side in 1899
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Yes, there is a USA cricket team. They played in the Champions Trophy in 2004, although they were hammered by Australia and New Zealand.\n\nThe oldest cricket fixture in the world is USA v Canada, also.\n\nUsually, you'll join a club and if you're good enough, you'll be selected for the next level. I'm not sure about the levels in America. \n\nIf you go to this page:\n\nhttp://uk.cricinfo.com/db/NATIONAL/ICC_MEMBERS/USA/LEAGUES.html\n\nit gives contact details for all of the leagues in USA - that should provide you with a good starting point.
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I don't believe there are two teams that have been around that long who haven't played each other. If there is, I'd be very interested in knowing. We're talking NFL, right?\n(Packers played Bills in 2002)
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The Cardinals are the oldest continuous professional American football club in the United States. The team was formed in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club in Chicago. The club was then called the Racine Normals since they were originally located on Chicago's Racine Avenue (not Racine, Wisconsin, as mistaken by many). They then changed their name to the Racine Cardinals after they started wearing red uniforms, inherited from the collegiate Chicago Maroons.\n\nAfter becoming a charter member of the NFL in 1920, the club was renamed the Chicago Cardinals. During the lean years of World War II it merged into the Pittsburgh Steelers and became one franchise usually referred to as Card-Pitt. The Cardinals moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1960 becoming the St. Louis Cardinals. The club then relocated to the Phoenix metropolitan area in 1988, first playing at Sun Devil Stadium in the suburb of Tempe. The team was known as the Phoenix Cardinals before it started using "Arizona" in its name in 1994.
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1989-1990 season. it was the old league division 1. they've never won the premiership.
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All of these people are incorrect with their answers and they don’t even know it. \n\nThe word 'sport' has changed from its original definition to mean something rather different. It was originally used to describe a team event where participants had to overcome a common goal. 'Sports' in the tradition sense of the word were invented by the British to help train their youth in schools to become officers and leaders headed for the colonies. Original sports were rugby, cricket, football (soccer) etc.\n\nAnyway the definition and understanding of the word ‘sport’ has since changed to encompass activities such as games, athletics, gymnastics, individual events etc.\n\nAnd the goal of modern sports is slightly different. The emphasis now is on winning and less on teamwork as was the original purpose.\n\nSo to ask which is the oldest sport, you need to ask what definition of the word sport you are using. The original or the modern meaning?\n\nAs for the oldest event you would have to say running. But who knows if it was an organized competition.
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Tough question. I'm going to guess... youngest team has to be 1958 Brazil. Oldest team might be 1982 Italy. Hope I'm close.
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...worlds oldest profession
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are you talking about that old wrestling team??
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Roger Milla of Cameroon in USA'94 is the oldest player to compete. Italy's Dino Zoff who kept goal in the 1970 Final in Mexico, is the oldest captain at 40 in 1982 to lift the trophy.
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Portsmouth. They won it in 1939 and due to the war and no competition been held until 1945 they were still the holders. Therefore they held the cup for 6 yrs which no other team has come close to!
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-127 people ran the first New York City Marathon in 1970, 32,000 ran in 1998. \n\n-The Cincinnati Redstockings was the first baseball team to pay its players. \n\n-Rowing is the oldest American college sport still in existence. \n\n-The Tour de France bicycle race is 2,300 miles long. \n\n-When badminton was invented in India, it was known as poona\n\n- The referee tossed a jump ball after every basket in basketball until 1937\n\n-The first baseball player to be named rookie of the year was Jackie Robinson in 1947. \n\n-Mickey Mantle is credited with the longest home run ever, 643 feet. \n\n------------------------------------------------\n- THE SLIHOUETTE ON THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION IS JERRY WEST\n\n- THE SILHOUETTE ON THE MAJOR LEAGUE OF BASEBALL LOGO IS HARMON KILLEBREW \n\n- PISTSBURGH, PENNSLYVANIA IS THE ONLY CITY IN THE USA WITH 3 SPORTS TEAMS THAT ALL WEAR THE SAME COLOURS\n\n- SEVEN OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL WINNERS EVENTUALLY WENT ON TO WIN THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD \n\n- A FOREFITTED GAME IN BASEBALL IS RECORDED AS A 9-0 SCORE. IN FOOTBALL IT IS RECORDED AS A 1-0 SCORE\n\n- IN 1986 DANNY HEEP BECAME THE FIRST PLAYER IN A WORLD SERIES TO BE A DESIGNATED HITTER (DH) WITH THE INITIALS "D.H" \n\n- THE ONLY PERSON TO BE ELECTED TO BOTH THE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME AND THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME IS CAL HUBBARD \n\n- KRESIMIR COSIC IS THE ONLY NON-AMERICAN PLAYER IN THE NBA HALL OF FAME  \n\n- DECATUR, ILLINOIS WAS THE ORIGINAL HOME OF THE CHICAGO BEARS  \n\n- THE 1957 MILWAUKEE BREWERS WERE THE FIRST TEAM TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES AFTER BEING RELOCATED. \n------------------------------------------------\n\nIn the NBA, Shaq wears the biggest shoes, he wears size 22.\n\nThe first puck used in a game of ice hockey was a frozen cow patty.\n\nJai-Alai is the world's fastest ball game. A small, hard ball is thrown at a granite wall at speeds of around 188mph (303km/h) using scoops that are latched to the players' hands.\n\nQ: What travels faster: a serve from Andy Roddick, a slapshot from Jarome Iginla or a fastball from Pedro Martinez? \nA: Andy Roddick's serve is the fastest. Some of his serves have traveled at 149 miles per hour (240 kilometers per hour)!\n\nPeach baskets were used in the first basketball game.\n\nQ:  A game in which players kick a ball with their feet is called soccer in North America but football everywhere else in the world. Where does the term "soccer" come from? \nA:  The word soccer comes from an abbreviation of the word association - which was a reference to The first Football Association, which was formed in England in 1863.\n\nQ:  The national sport of Afghanistan is called buzkashi. What is the object of this game? \nA:  Buzkashi is a sport where teams score points for carrying a goat's carcass across a goal line, while riding on a horse.\n\nIn 2002, Takeru Kobayashi ate 50 hotdogs in 12 minutes to set a new world record for hotdog eating.\n\nRandall Simon of the Pittsburgh Pirates fined $432 during the 2003 baseball season for attacking a woman dressed up as a sausage with a baseball bat\n\nBoxer Mike Tyson was disqualified from the 1997 fight after he bit Evander Holyfield's ear twice. The second time he actually took a piece out of Holyfield's ear.\n\nBefore 1859, umpires sat in a padded rocking chair behind the catcher.\n\nIn the National Hockey League, home teams wear white jerseys and visiting teams wear dark jerseys. That's because back in the 1960s, the league figured it would be more difficult to keep white uniforms clean while players were on the road. \n\nYou've probably  heard people say, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye." Well that phrase comes from Ancient Rome. The only rule during Roman wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Biting, kicking and scratching were allowed but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out. \n\nYou might think a yo-yo is just a
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They have found evidence that it is a very old game, possibly even played in ancient China and Egypt. It was brought to perfection in England, mainly in the second half of the 19th century. Thanks to the industrial revolution teams were formed in the cities with heavy industries (Manchester, Newcastle etc) and they began playing competition.\n\nMind you, *steelers*, everybody is welcome to play football.
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Football Association Challenge Cup,  A.K.A. FA CUP.  It is the oldest Football compitition in the world.
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the oldest ever was qb/kicker george blanda at 48. the oldest player currently playing who hasn't retired is eagles punter sean landeta, who is currently 44. he was born in january 1962\nSource: www.faqfarm.com/Q/Who_is_the\n_oldest_active_NFL_player\n\nwww.nfl.com/teams/story/\nMIN/5741932
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quoting from someone:\nThe longest playing career is Nolan Ryan, with 27 seasons (1966, 1968-93); Cap Anson (1871-1897) is tied with him if you count the National Association (1871-75) as a major league.\n\nFor current players, the longest tenure is that of Julio Franco with 21 years to date (1982-97, 1999, 2001-05).