Moving Trucks: Relocation Receipts

Midnight Mayflower trucks, betrayed cities, names that stopped making sense. Can you name where these teams really came from?

Clues

Type it

Format

Hard

Difficulty

No multiple choice. Type each answer, a nickname or city usually counts.

About Moving Trucks: Relocation Receipts

Moving Trucks: Relocation Receipts is a free cities game with no multiple choice: read each of the 10 clues and type the answer yourself. Midnight Mayflower trucks, betrayed cities, names that stopped making sense. Can you name where these teams really came from?

Every clue you name correctly scores a point, and your final tally maps to a rank that runs from Benched all the way up to GOAT for a perfect 10/10. This one is rated Hard, and the bar for bragging rights is real: name all 10 abandoned hometowns. Spelling is forgiving, so a nickname or city usually counts.

Want a scouting report first? Every clue is listed below with no answers spoiled, so you can size the challenge up before you start typing.

How to play

Hit Start and read the first clue.

Type your answer and submit. A nickname, city, or full team name all work.

Each correct answer scores a point and reveals a bonus fact worth stealing.

Finish all 10 clues to get your rank, then share it or run it back.

What you'll be quizzed on

March 1984: fifteen Mayflower moving trucks rolled up to the Colts' facility at 10 p.m., loaded everything under cover of darkness, and scattered on separate routes to Indianapolis. Type the city that woke up without its team.

Walter O'Malley wanted a new stadium, the city offered Queens, and after the 1957 season he took baseball's most beloved borough team to Los Angeles instead. Type the borough the Dodgers left behind.

In 2008 Clay Bennett settled with Seattle, paying the city 45 million dollars up front (plus 30 million more later) to take his NBA team to Oklahoma City, where it became the Thunder. Type the full name of the team he took.

The Tennessee Titans spent their first 37 seasons under a completely different identity, one built on Texas crude, before Bud Adams moved them in 1997. Type the team's original name.

Canada's first MLB team played its last game at Shea Stadium in October 2004, then resurfaced the next spring as the Washington Nationals. Type the team's original name.

Utah's NBA team is named for a music genre that made perfect sense in its birthplace and almost none in Salt Lake City after the 1979 move. Type the city where the Jazz name actually fit.

The Lakers were named for the Land of 10,000 Lakes and won five championships there behind George Mikan before Bob Short moved them west in 1960. Type the city they came from.

This Connecticut NHL team won its final home game 2-1 in April 1997 while fans wept to the Brass Bonanza, then packed off to become the Carolina Hurricanes. Type the team's original name.

This French-Canadian NHL team moved to Denver in the summer of 1995 and won the Stanley Cup that very first season as the Colorado Avalanche. Type the team's original name.

Deep lore trap: the WHA-born Jets left Winnipeg in 1996 to become the Phoenix Coyotes, so the Jets who returned in 2011 were actually a different relocated franchise. Type the city those 2011 Jets abandoned.

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