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Correct. I was just wondering about the current main league and the "Former" category on each sport. I don't think there's anything preventing it from happening .... I just can't think of any examples where we currently have it because everything's simply grouped under one current TID. I think the biggest issue would be what we currently deal with on Multi-Sport college teams.  Every time we add Browns cards, we'd have to check if it's the current TID or the pre-96 TID. Repeat for all the other teams in this situation, and as we've seen for a while on this site, if people see a link on the Name or Team when adding a checklist, that's all they care about ... not if it's correct or not. And good luck getting anyone to help reassign hundreds/thousands of cards to the new TIDs....

Expanding on Billy's point about the LA Clippers/Los Angeles Clippers...a case of same team,different name.

In hockey..  about.the Anaheim Ducks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaheim_Ducks

The team was called Mighty Ducks of Anaheim 1993-2006, renamed Anaheim Ducks for 2006-07 season.

Mighty Ducks of Anaheim - https://www.tcdb.com/Team.cfm/tid/5814/Mighty-Ducks-of-Anaheim   

Total cards = 1 (?!)

Anaheim Mighty Ducks - https://www.tcdb.com/Team.cfm/tid/319/Anaheim-Mighty-Ducks 

This was never the name of the team, yet Total cards = 12,814.   Should these two pages be merged ?

Anaheim Ducks - https://www.tcdb.com/Team.cfm/tid/289/Anaheim-Ducks Total cards 20,915.  All cards 2005-06 and earlier belong with Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, since the name Anaheim Ducks never existed when the cards were produced.

And then there's the case of the Washington Football Team, which includes Washington Redskins players...I won't go into details.

Yes, the listing for Anaheim Mighty Ducks is wrong. 

Regarding the Cleveland Browns,  and the Charlotte Hornets, they are two different teams regardless of whatever hoops their respective leagues have jumped through trying to get you to think otherwise. Anybody needs to just check the actual records and it's obvious. 

The point about getting them listed correctly thought that Ed made is spot on. We all know it wouldn't work, and would probably just make things worse. I get why it's done the way it is, but it'd not perfect. I go through great pains to make sure they are listed accurately in my listings and on the Cardboard History Gallery. 

It's also why I can't really use the stats for teams on here. For the aforementioned Ottawa Senators 1 I have only one card, so that's easy enough. When you get to the Winnipeg Jets and the Charlotte Hornets, where I have hundreds of cards from both teams that used the name it gets much harder. 

The teams changing leagues, if it's the same team, should not get another TID. Teams change leagues all the time, especially European teams where relegation is a regular feature of their entire sport. If the name changes, however, that's a different story and absolutely gets a new TID. Example: New England Whalers in WHA becoming Hartford Whalers in NHL.