University of Louisiana product, Christian Keener Cagle, once owned the NFL Brooklyn Dodgers for a season from 1933 to 1934.

A few years later the 1944 Dodgers tried to get creative and called themselves the "Tigers."

The Tigers lost ten out of ten, including a pair of losses to a new team called the Boston Yanks.

The Yanks finished 2-8, good for fourth in the NFL East, and the Dodgers/ Tigers finished fifth because there were only five teams.

In 1945 the Dodgers/Tigers merged with the Boston Yanks playing 80% of their games in Boston and the rest in NewYork.

In 1946 the Dodgers owner Dan Topping had his Dodgers team jump leagues into the new All-America Football Conference. However with the move he renamed the team the New York Yankees which was fitting because they played their games at Yankee Stadium.

Now get this the All-America Football Conference created true confusion for posterity's sake. They created a completely unrelated franchise in Brooklyn and called it -- what else? -- the Dodgers.

Then in another twist the New Dodgers merged with the old Dodgers in 1949 and retained the Yankee name for 1 year.

After the 1949 season the NFL absorbed the All-America Football Conference, and the Yankees were merged with the New York Bulldogs.

Some of the Yankees best players were given to the New York Giants, most of the roster was handed over to Ted Collins Yanks/Bulldogs team and became the backbone of the 1950 New York Yanks.

So the Dodgers were now again the Yanks.

When Collins threw in the towel after the '51 season, the league replaced the Yanks with the first Dallas Texans, who didn't even get through the 1952 season.

To take the Texans place, a new franchise was created in Baltimore as the Colts.

THAT team is the same Indianapolis Colts who UL's Clarence Verdin and Brandon Stokley both played and play for, respectively.