Original NFC teams

Answer 1

Do you mean the National Football Conference of the NFL?

When the NFL merged with the American Football League in 1970, the 26 teams were organized into two conferences, the American and the National. The 13 teams of the NFC were:

Atlanta Falcons

Chicago Bears

Dallas Cowboys

Detroit Lions

Green Bay Packers

Los Angeles Rams

Minnesota Vikings

New Orleans Saints

New York Giants

Philadelphia Eagles

St. Louis Cardinals

San Francisco 49ers

Washington Redskins

Because there were 16 NFL teams and 10 AFL teams prior to the merger, three NFL teams had to join the American conference. They were the Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Colts.

If you meant to ask about the original teams in the National Hockey League, they were the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs. The Bulldogs could not put together a team for the 1917-18 season, so the league placed a team in Toronto.

This Toronto team was operated by the owners of the city's arena, the Arena Gardens (also known as the Mutual Street Arena).

The NHL had been formed after the owners in Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec, who had previously played in a league called the National Hockey Association, grew impatient with the owner of the NHA's Toronto Blueshirts, Eddie Livingstone. They voted to leave the NHA and create the NHL specifically to freeze Livingstone out of the picture.

When Quebec elected not to play the 1917-18 season, the NHL and the owners of the Arena Gardens "leased" Livingstone's players. When this club won the Stanley Cup championship in 1918, Livingstone felt he deserved more money for the use of his players. He was also bitter enough with the NHL that he tried several times to launch rival pro leagues, and filed lawsuits that dragged on until 1927.

By that time, the Toronto franchise had been dissolved, resurrected as the Arenas, sold to another group and renamed the St. Patricks, and finally sold to Conn Smythe, who named them the Maple Leafs.