The NFL’s history contains several chapters of ignoble lore, but one otherwise forgettable franchise stands alone in a single regard: The team that played one game before folding.
The league has featured nearly 100 franchises and their offspring in its nearly 100 years of existence, including some long-forgotten ones … the Miami Seahawks? Cincinnati Celts? Detroit Panthers? Oorang Indians? (The latter was Jim Thorpe’s first team, by the way.)
Only one — the Tonawanda Kardex in 1921 — had a one-game existence.