I believe a lot of people in the Buffalo Western New York area have been cheated too much lately with their arena sports. The city of Buffalo was supposed to get an expansion team in 2010 for the concurrent season in Arena Football 2 (branded as "Af2" - no typographical error), but when the Arena Football League folded, the Af2 only lasted another year as 70 percent of the teams were owned by the AFL (arena, not Aussie rules). NFL Hall of Fame Bills Jim Kelly and Thurman Thomas ("Thermos Thomas" as my limited-English speaking grandmother calls him) along with Thomas' co-owning partner of the CIFL's Rochester Raiders were to be the primary ownership of the group. The team was projected to don the colors of RHI's Buffalo Stampede (1994-1995). With the absence of the Af2, Buffalo's bid was but a pipe dream with the team in Af2's Albany Firebirds (formerly the Conquest) was expected to join the seven other Af2 teams that joined the new AFL.
As far as indoor soccer is concerned, the city of Buffalo has not been very kind to the sport . . . While the Buffalo Stallions of the first MISL were rather successful, they had off-field issues that can be explained at this link. Their successors however, the Buffalo Blizzard, were just like a band that had great individuals but couldn't make it big. This was a team of good players, but never managed to win a playoff series. The Knox Brothers, the then and inaugural Sabres owners, also controlled the Blizzard. The next owner would be John Bellanti, who was the last owner of either Buffalo franchise.
I've been to three maybe four Destroyers games including the first two games in their history, and also I have been to 6 Blizzard games. For some reason, I remember listening to the Destroyers final home game in Buffalo in 2003, when we were close enough to the border in St. Catherines, ON, CAN to get the station signal. I also recall the reason the Blizzard didn't want to join the MISL was because there was a dispute with the owner of the Milwaukee Wave, who despised the Buffalo franchise. And if I thought that the Destroyers games I went to was the extent of vintage AFL, I was wrong. You can see the first YouTube videos below with the Zubaz jersey fad of the early 1990s, the others will be about tomorrow . . . I wonder if I start that for a concept just like the Hawai'ian theme.
At least you've heard the story of the successful Bandits of the NLL having been 18 for 21 in playoff appearances with four championships, including the only perfect season in league history with the coach that has the most regular season wins in history continuing to run the team. This is the team who arguably has the greatest player of all time, still active at age 43 and resigned for another year wanting to play a few more with the only team he's been with on the floor in every season of Bandits history having only been held pointless once in the game on January 25, 2002 in an 8-7 loss in Philadelphia. Sorry for that little rant, every Bandits fan will do that with him and the organization. Some more details regarding today's post will be enclosed. Until then, North Melbourne beat Collingwood 13.13.91 to 8.13.61 in Aussie rules Round 21 play. Also, Arsenal just started the second half with Sunderland tied 0-0 in the post-Robin vanPersie era at Arsenal in the first match of the new Barclay's Premier League campaign. That's caught up for now.
-Ricky
As far as indoor soccer is concerned, the city of Buffalo has not been very kind to the sport . . . While the Buffalo Stallions of the first MISL were rather successful, they had off-field issues that can be explained at this link. Their successors however, the Buffalo Blizzard, were just like a band that had great individuals but couldn't make it big. This was a team of good players, but never managed to win a playoff series. The Knox Brothers, the then and inaugural Sabres owners, also controlled the Blizzard. The next owner would be John Bellanti, who was the last owner of either Buffalo franchise.
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I've been to three maybe four Destroyers games including the first two games in their history, and also I have been to 6 Blizzard games. For some reason, I remember listening to the Destroyers final home game in Buffalo in 2003, when we were close enough to the border in St. Catherines, ON, CAN to get the station signal. I also recall the reason the Blizzard didn't want to join the MISL was because there was a dispute with the owner of the Milwaukee Wave, who despised the Buffalo franchise. And if I thought that the Destroyers games I went to was the extent of vintage AFL, I was wrong. You can see the first YouTube videos below with the Zubaz jersey fad of the early 1990s, the others will be about tomorrow . . . I wonder if I start that for a concept just like the Hawai'ian theme.
At least you've heard the story of the successful Bandits of the NLL having been 18 for 21 in playoff appearances with four championships, including the only perfect season in league history with the coach that has the most regular season wins in history continuing to run the team. This is the team who arguably has the greatest player of all time, still active at age 43 and resigned for another year wanting to play a few more with the only team he's been with on the floor in every season of Bandits history having only been held pointless once in the game on January 25, 2002 in an 8-7 loss in Philadelphia. Sorry for that little rant, every Bandits fan will do that with him and the organization. Some more details regarding today's post will be enclosed. Until then, North Melbourne beat Collingwood 13.13.91 to 8.13.61 in Aussie rules Round 21 play. Also, Arsenal just started the second half with Sunderland tied 0-0 in the post-Robin vanPersie era at Arsenal in the first match of the new Barclay's Premier League campaign. That's caught up for now.
-Ricky
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