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DISCLAIMER: I know zip about rugby, Australian rules football, or the various soccer organizations so I disregarded those going in; not going to venture into areas with which I'm unfamiliar. Hence this discussion's scope is confined to North America.

Anyhow: pretty much what the subject line says. A few items:
  • Of the twelve NFL teams at the beginning of the 1950s, only the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers used green.
  • None of the original eight AFL teams did, but the Jets adopted green when they changed from the New York Titans for the 1964 season.
  • Of the nine CFL teams before the Ottawa Rough Riders folded, only the Edmonton Eskimos and Saskatchewan Rough Riders used green.
  • NONE of the NHL's original six used green (three-Chicago, Montreal, and Detroit-used red or a close variation of it; two-Toronto and the Rangers-used blue; one-Boston-used black).
  • NONE of baseball's original sixteen teams used green in their original locations (although the A's adopted green while close to the end of their tenure in Kansas City, and for a very brief period in the '30s, the Dodgers called themselves the Aces and used green and white uniforms)
  • I don't pay attention at all to the NBA, so the only one I'm aware of is the Dallas Mavericks.
And even today it's not used much. In baseball, it's the A's; the NFL still has the Packers, Eagles, Jets (no, turquoise doesn't count); the NHL has the Stars and Wild (both expansion teams; teal or turquoise don't count).

So...how would one or more teams adopt green for good back in the '30s, '20s, or before?
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