Defunct Sports Teams
- The Portland Breakers competed in the United States Football League during the 1985 USFL season.
- The Portland Storm and Portland Thunder competed in the World Football League in 1974 and 1975.
- The Portland Fire competed in the WNBA from 2000 through 2002.
- The Portland Rosebuds were two early professional hockey teams, one of which in 1916 was the first Stanley Cup finals participant from the United States.
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Famous quotes containing the words defunct, sports and/or teams:
“The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not “studying a profession,” for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)