One of the oddest teams to have ever played the game came out of the town of Rawlins, Wyoming, home of the state Penitentiary. The team was odd because its players were all prisoners at that penitentiary, serving time for all kinds of crimes, including murder.
On October 7, 1864 a battle between a Confederate commerce raider and a US sloop of war brought the nation to the brink of a foreign war.