 The Brooklyn Horsemen played the last three games of its existence (all shutout losses) and left the league when it merged with its NFL cousins, the Lions.By the middle of the month, the Boston Bulldogs called it quits, as did Rock Island a week later.By Thanksgiving of 1926, there were only four teams operating in the AFL (New York, Chicago, the Wildcats, and Philadelphia), with only the Quakers making a profit for the year (boosted in part by huge attendances stemming from the United States Sesquicentennial celebration and the very large stadium capable of hosting them) and Pyle was spending money to keep the other three teams afloat.