The Sacramento Majestics folded while the Buffalo Blitz moved first to Rochester, New York and became the Rochester Blitz then the franchise moved again this time to Syracuse, New York and became the Syracuse Blitz.

The Syracuse Blitz never were a full-time member of the PIFL but did play a few exhibition games and were under consideration for membership as an expansion team for 1999.

Besides the Syracuse Blitz there was a number of teams that played exhibition games against the full-time members of the PIFL.

The league was going to have 8 clubs but the Arizona ( Tucson ) Mirage and the Syracuse Blitz folded.

Daniel Steele, a former Genesee College president, served as the first administrative leader of Syracuse until its Chancellor was appointed.

Dr. Erastus Otis Haven, Syracuse University chancellor and former president of the University of Michigan and Northwestern University, maintained that women should receive the advantages of higher education.

* The exiled former leader of the moderate democrats of Syracuse, Hermocrates, is killed while attempting to force his way back into Syracuse.

* After his surrender to the Corinthian general Timoleon, who takes over as ruler of Syracuse, the former tyrant, Dionysius II, is allowed to retire to Corinth to live in exile, although he dies within the year.

* The Mamertines, a body of Campanian mercenaries who have been employed by Agathocles, the former tyrant of Syracuse, capture the stronghold of Messana ( Messina in north-eastern Sicily ), from which they harass the Syracusans.

On radio stations WBNS-FM ( flagship ), WBNS and WWCD, and 26 other affiliates in Ohio, George Matthews provides play-by-play coverage, with analysis provided by former Syracuse Crunch radio broadcaster Bob McElligott.

* Mike Hopkins ( unknown ), Syracuse Orange men's basketball assistant coach and former player

* Eric Devendorf-McDonald's All-American basketball recruit from Bay City Central HS, former starter at Syracuse University.

With the canal gone and the railroad seeing only a portion of its former business, and as the interstate system and other high speed roads have turned the all day trip of the nineteenth century into an hours's drive, East Syracuse has become fully a suburb of Syracuse.

* Pat Perritt, former collegiate lacrosse player who won National Championship at Syracuse

* The former name of the male sports teams of Syracuse University, now called the Syracuse Orange

With their move to TCF Bank Stadium, only three NCAA Division I FBS football programs now play indoors ( Idaho, Syracuse and Tulane ; the former two play at on-campus domed stadiums while the third shares the Mercedes-Benz Superdome with the New Orleans Saints ).

* Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former faculty member at Syracuse University, former Director of the Congressional Budget Office, and former chief economic policy adviser to U. S. Senator John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.

* Greg Paulus, former basketball player at Duke University, and former starting quarterback for the Syracuse Orange football team.

One year following Schwartz's death, in 1967, his former student at Syracuse University, the rock musician Lou Reed, dedicated his song " European Son " to Schwartz ( although the lyrics themselves made no direct reference to Schwartz ).

Walter Francis Sweeney ( born April 18, 1941 in Cohasset, Massachusetts ) is a former American football offensive lineman, who played college football at Syracuse University, where he made the school's all-century team.

In the 1980s, plans were first made to transform the languishing district into a small shopping / arts / nightlife district surrounding the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology ( formerly the Discovery Center ), which inhabits the former Syracuse Armory.

Syracuse Hancock International is home to the third component of Waypoint Flight School-which was once the former ExecAir Flight Training Center.

* Casey Powell, Ryan Powell, and Mikey Powell, All-American lacrosse players at Syracuse University and Professional MLL lacrosse players.

Professional soccer did return to Syracuse in 2011 when the expansion Syracuse Silver Knights began play in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

It was also the home of the Syracuse Pros football team, who were possible members of the American Professional Football Association ( later renamed the National Football league ), in 1921.

The Syracuse University football program is also renowned for producing many All-Americans and College as well as Professional Football Hall of Famers.

At one point, the Professional Football Researchers Association recognized a team by the name of the Syracuse Pros as joining and leaving the league in 1921, but the league has not recognized the claim, and the PFRA has backed off its assertion in more recent years.

* Syracuse Silver Knights ( Major Indoor Soccer League )

Diego Serna ( born October 2, 1973 in Medellín ) is a Colombian soccer player who most recently was under contract for the Syracuse Silver Knights of the American Major Indoor Soccer League.

Serna signed with Syracuse Silver Knights of the American Major Indoor Soccer League on October 11, 2011.

For the 2011-12 Major Indoor Soccer League season War Memorial will be the home for the Syracuse Silver Knights.

* 28 December — the first indoor professional American football game is played in New York City at Madison Square Garden between Philadelphia Phillies and Syracuse Athletic Club ; in all, four games take place in the World Series of Pro Football, an early attempt to establish a national professional championship.

Floyd Douglas Little ( born July 4, 1942 ) is a Pro Football Hall of Fame running back, and was a three-time American football All-American running back at Syracuse University.

Later, he was named to the Syracuse All-Century Football team.

The reason for the club's relocation from Buffalo to Rochester then finally Syracuse was that the Arena Football League was looking into Miami, Florida and Buffalo, New York as markets for expansion.

The Syracuse Salty Dogs ( formally Syracuse Football Club ) were a professional men's soccer team based in Syracuse, New York.

Managing director of the Huskies was Lew Hayman, coach and general manager of the Alouettes and future president of the Toronto Argonauts and the Canadian Football League, who had been a star basketball player at Syracuse University.

* 1959: Syracuse University Orange: NCAA Division I-A Football National Champions

Founded in 1969, Syracuse University Rugby Football Club plays in Division 1 in the Empire Conference against local rivals such as Rutgers.

* Syracuse Football Page from College Football Data Warehouse

Tyrone Anthony Wheatley ( born January 19, 1972 ) is the running backs coach at Syracuse University and a former professional American football player who played 10 seasons in the National Football League ( NFL ) and was one of the most successful high school and collegiate athletes in Metropolitan Detroit history.