You are NOT listing teams by earliest franchise. Instead, think like a scientist/historian (plants preceded animals, sea life preceded land life, men from the 1500s preceded men from the 1900s, etc.)
you have to have heat before you have anything else! (virtually dateless)
76ers
flames most likely occurred in explosions before stars were formed (virtually dateless)
Blue Jackets
could have also used the Stars here (billions of years ago)
Blues
early earth was constantly stormy (sometime after earth's origin 4.5 bya)
Browns
thunder most likely occurred 1-3 seconds after the above answer
Bucks
earliest known sharks appeared 420 mya; possibly 363-350 mya
Capitals
this mountain range began forming around 80 mya
Clippers
velociraptors appeared around 75-71 mya during the Cretaceous Period
Cowboys
believed to have originated around 50 mya
Diamondbacks
songbirds appeared around 45-50 mya
Dolphins
saber-toothed cats appeared between 42-37 mya
Eagles
large predatory birds (including eagles) appeared around 35 mya
Flames
deer first appeared around 25 mya
Heat
although snakes appeared as early as 100 mya, pitvipers & rattlesnakes are considered the most specialized snakes, emerging < 10 mya
Indians
modern tigers appeared around 1.6-1.8 mya
Jazz
the Roman Senate formed in 753 BCE
Jets
the Greek poet Hesiod (circa 750-650 BCE) first mentioned the Titans being decendants of Gaia & Uranus during the Golden Age of Greece
List of Teams
Order of Appearance
Extra Info
Kings
although Egyptian Pharaohs could be considered monarchs, the word 'king' (and therefore the title 'king') appeared sometime before 900 (Europe)
Lightning
spurs date as far back as the 5th century BCE (Celts), but as evidenced by their symbol, the rowel didn't appear until the 13th-14th centuries (England)
Orioles
Columbus mistakingly referred to the Native Americans in the Antilles as 'Indians' (late-15th century)
Predators
homage to the Declaration of Independence (1776)
Raptors
construction on the U.S. Capitol: 1793-1811
Rockets
first ones were called Baltimore Clippers (1795-1815); general clippers appeared in the 1830s
Rockies
reference to the California Gold Rush (1849)
Senators
traces origins to medieval Spain, but by 1849 the 'American Cowboy' developed its modern sense, and became ubiquitous during the late-1800s
Sharks
nickname for Union Soldiers (blue uniforms) during the American Civil War: 1861-1865 (AKA War Between the States, AKA War of Northern Aggression)
Spurs
Minneapolis & St. Paul were first nicknamed the 'Dual Cities' in 1872 ('Twin Cities' appeared shortly thereafter)
Steelers
this style of music appeared in the Deep South during the late-1800s
Suns
pioneers were expanding shortly after the 13 colonies were established, but the term wasn't coined until around 1905-1910
Thunder
steel workers trace origins to the 1800s, but the logo is based on the Steelmark logo belonging to the American Iron & Steel Institute (1908); created by the U.S. Steel Corp. (1901), the logo contains 3 hypocycloids
Tigers
founder Paul Brown was born in 1908, then founded the team in 1946
Titans
this style of music appeared in the Southern U.S. during the 1910s
Trailblazers
the first jet-powered mechanism capable of flight was a 'turbojet' in 1939
Twins
yes, the Chinese had 'rockets' around the 13th century, but the team is named after the modern Atlas missile/booster rocket program (1942: German V-2 Rocket, 1957: Sputnik 1)
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