| 100% | NORDIQUE | 8 | Quebec player, before the team relocated to Denver |
| 49% | OILER | 5 | Houston NFL player, prior to the team relocating to Tennessee |
| 44% | PRE | 3 | Before the flop, to a poker player |
| 39% | REP | 3 | Player ___ (NFLer chosen to be a team's liaison to the players' union) |
| 36% | TRADE | 5 | NBA term that refers to the exchange of player rights from one team to another |
| 35% | ROOT | 4 | Word sung three times before "for the home team" in "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" |
| 35% | MARKING | 7 | Staying close to a player on the opposing team |
| 35% | METS | 4 | M.L.B. team that was the first to trade a player for himself (Harry Chiti in 1962) |
| 34% | UNDERDOG | 8 | The team considered least likely to win |
| 34% | LED | 3 | Captain ___ the team to victory |
| 34% | ERE | 3 | Before, to the Bard |
| 33% | TUG | 3 | ___ of war, sport played with a rope where players pull and try to yank the other team over the line |
| 33% | ERA | 3 | Before the Common ___ (what "BCE" means to a historian) |
| 33% | UNDERDOGS | 9 | The teams that are considered least likely to win |
| 33% | CAROLINAROSE | 12 | Byrne after relocating to the Outer Banks? |
| 33% | ANON | 4 | Before long, to the Bard |
| 33% | GENE | 4 | Upshaw who is the only NFL player to go to the Super Bowl in three different decades with the same team |
| 33% | MEGAN | 5 | ___ Rapinoe, American soccer player who led her team to victory in the FIFA Women's World Cup on 7th July 2019 |
| 33% | MET | 3 | Player on the team that lost the 2015 World Series |
| 33% | NYGIANT | 7 | Major League player before moving to S.F. |
| 32% | MONTREAL | 8 | Quebec city home to the Canadiens |
| 32% | PUTMEIN | 7 | Player's plea to the coach |
| 32% | PUNTER | 6 | Football player who kicks the ball downfield to the opposing team |
| 32% | OILER | 5 | Player for the NHL's northernmost team |
| 32% | HAZE | 4 | The night before, to a hard partier? |
| 32% | MOVEACROSS/DOWNTOWN | 19 | Relocate from one side to the other |
| 32% | ASSET | 5 | Star player, to a team |
| 31% | REDSOX | 6 | Team often trying to clear the Green Monster |
| 31% | ROSALINE | 8 | The woman Romeo claimed to love before Juliet |
| 31% | TEAMMATES | 9 | Players pass to them rather than the opposition! |