Brooklyn Dodgers

The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American football team that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943, and in 1944 as the Brooklyn Tigers. The team played its home games at Ebbets Field, home of the National League baseball team of the same name. In 1945, because of financial difficulties and a scarcity of major league level players during the Second World War, the franchise was merged with the Boston Yanks and was known as the Yanks for that season. It was not related to an earlier American Football League franchise that played as the Brooklyn Tigers in 1936, and the name distinguishes it from the baseball Brooklyn Dodgers.