Five different National Football League teams have used the nickname “Indians” over the course of its previous 84 seasons. These squads were all located in the state of Ohio, operating in the first 11 formative years of major league professional football in the United States. Cleveland housed three such clubs while Akron also gave the name a try.

Most interesting, however, was a team from tiny LaRue, Ohio, the smallest city ever to have claimed the rights to an NFL team. They were called the Oorang Indians.