"In 1952, the old New York Yankees franchise was on the move again and became the Dallas Texans. At the time, a group of owners in the Dallas area were positive they could make Dallas a real hotbed of NFL action. The experiment failed miserably, however. Attendance was so bad, in fact, that the team gave up Dallas as its home midway through the season, playing the rest of its games on the road that year and operating from a base in Hershey, Pennsylvania. In 1953, the NFL had a team without a home -- the Dallas Texans. The city of Baltimore, meanwhile, was clamoring for another chance at having a professional football team -- so much so that a court case was filed against the league by an attorney named William D. MacMillan in an effort to try and bring a team back to Baltimore."