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Frozen Spider, San Francisco
Everyone knowns about the 49ers and Giants sports teams, but did you know about San Francisco's hockey heritage? The San Francisco Spiders were a local hockey team that played in the former International Hockey League during the 1995. They are best known for having the ugliest uniforms this side of the 1982 Montreal Expos. But the Spiders were not the city's first hockey team, from the 1940s through the 1970s the San Francisco Shamrocks of the Pacific Hockey League played here. In the 1960s, the San Francisco Seals played in the Western Hockey League and later went on to become the NHL's California Seals. In 1972 the short-lived San Francisco Seahawks skated in the World Hockey Association. Of course today the Bay Area's NHL franchise is the San Jose Sharks who skate about 50 miles south of San Francisco. The Bay Area even has two gay hockey teams, the San Francisco Earthquakes and the Oakland Silver Quakes.

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The hockey San Francisco Seals were one of three professional sports teams to use that nickname. Can you name the other two sports? ANSWER
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