The Miami Sting were a professional indoor football team based in Coral Gables, Florida . The Sting was to play its home games at the BankUnited Center on the campus of the University of Miami in Coral Gables . The Sting folded just before the 2013 season began.
19-845: The Sting were the fourth indoor/arena football team to call South Florida home, following the Miami Hooters of the Arena Football League ( 1993 - 1995 ), their relocated form the Florida Bobcats ( 1996 - 2001 ), the Miami Morays of the National Indoor Football League ( 2005 National Indoor Football League season ), and their relocated form the Florida Frenzy ( 2006 ), and the Miami Vice Squad (which only played
38-796: A Miller-owned beer brand), the Toronto Phantoms (named for Phantom Industries, a manufacturer of women's hosiery), the Los Angeles Kiss (named for the band KISS , which owned the team) and the Detroit Neon of the Continental Indoor Soccer League . Originally the team was to be named the Miami Toros or Miami Bulls, with a similar logo for each name having been created. When the Miami Hooters team discontinued its connection with
57-734: A portion of the 2007 NIFL season before they were suspended and the league folded). The Sting were originally created to replace the Saginaw Sting , who had left the league to re-join the Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL). The Sting had an agreement to host games at Cambria County War Memorial Arena in Johnstown, Pennsylvania , as well as other cities throughout Western Pennsylvania. On November 30, 2011, they announced that they would be coached by Paul Pennington. Pennington, his staff, and all signed players resigned after
76-623: A sports team in Florida is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to Miami is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Miami Hooters The Florida Bobcats were an Arena Football League (AFL) team based in Sunrise , Florida . They were previously known as the Sacramento Attack and the Miami Hooters , and played in the AFL for a total of ten seasons,
95-509: The 1997 and 1998 seasons the team played a total of five official league games at neutral sites (in Ottawa , Boston , Los Angeles , Kansas City and Lakeland, Florida ), drawing an average crowd of 5,365 -- quite an improvement over the 3,446 per game they drew in their thirteen games in West Palm Beach. This led to some wags referring to Bobcats as "America's Team", an ironic comparison to
114-682: The BankUnited Center , on the campus of the University of Miami . The franchise named former head coach of the Ontario Warriors , Keith Evans, as their head coach in October 2012. Running backs Wide receivers Defensive linemen Defensive backs Special teams Head coach Offensive coaches Defensive coaches This American football team article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
133-708: The National Football League 's Dallas Cowboys . In 1999 , the Bobcats moved into the far more spacious confines of the National Car Rental Center , also home to the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League . Despite having over 20,000 seats in the new arena, the Bobcats attendance did not improve -- it actually dropped to an average of 3,424 in 21 home games. (The Bobcats even set
152-618: The 2001 season after years of weak attendance and poor performance. During their run they made two playoff appearances, once in Sacramento and once in Miami. The Sacramento Attack was an Arena Football League team that competed under that name in the 1992 AFL season only. They played at ARCO Arena (later Sleep Train Arena ) for that season. The team was originally supposed to play in Los Angeles as
171-508: The AFL all-time low attendance mark, when only 1,154 fans watched them beat the Los Angeles Avengers , 61-53, on May 3, 2001.) The club remained there until the team was folded after the completion of the 2001 season. One of the notable facts about this team is that they were quarterbacked through the majority of their existence by Fred McNair , the original "Air McNair" and older brother of 2003 NFL co- MVP Steve McNair . An attempt
190-677: The Hooters Restaurant chain after the 1995 season, it developed both a new identity (the Bobcats) and a new color scheme involving teal and black as opposed to the former orange and brown associated with the restaurants. It also moved north to West Palm Beach in an attempt to reduce overhead. This proved to be a mixed blessing at best, however, as the relatively tiny seating capacity of the West Palm Beach Auditorium (around 6,000) made profitable operations essentially impossible. In
209-648: The Los Angeles Wings, but the franchise never came into existence in Los Angeles, and moved to Sacramento, California as the Attack. After their inaugural season, the team relocated to Miami, Florida . They took the name Miami Hooters in an unusual marketing arrangement with the Florida-based restaurant chain Hooters , which was ordinarily more noted for its buxom waitresses than feats of athletic prowess. Naturally,
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#1733092599134228-683: The club and fans came up with the Valley Investment Plan to contribute towards the necessary finance. It was launched in June 1992. The scheme, which offered fans ten years of free or discounted tickets in return for an upfront payment, pulled in £1m, towards an eventual £4.5m bill. Another £1m was contributed as a grant by the Football Trust. Directors bravely stumped up the rest. So finally, in December 1992, seven years, two months and two weeks after
247-579: The community, and using a professional poster campaign that startled the mainstream political parties, The Valley Part obtained 14,838 votes as the team slipped back into the Second Division. A modest proposal for The Valley was put together – and promptly delayed for six months by a strike in Greenwich’s planning department. In April 1991, a scheme was at last approved. The final matches were counted down at Selhurst, only to have to report, mid-summer, that
266-661: The last seven in West Palm Beach and Sunrise in the Miami metropolitan area . The team was founded in 1992 as the Sacramento Attack, based in Sacramento, California . After their first season they relocated to Miami as the Miami Hooters, so named through a marketing deal with the restaurant chain Hooters . After three seasons the Hooters sponsorship was dropped and the team moved north to Sunrise where it changed its name. They folded after
285-530: The new venue would not be The Valley but Upton Park. The club had run out of time to get the ground ready for the start of the 1991/92 season. Weeks later it became clear it had also run out of money. The contractors had pulled off site because they had not been paid. The financially stricken Norris quit the board. New directors Martin Simons and Richard Murray took up the slack, along with Roger Alwen, who had become chairman in 1989. Yet another season rolled by until
304-575: The sale of the team to Jeff Bollinger a Pittsburgh Businessman, after which the Sting were coached by Bollinger, Jeff Hether and Bill Miller during the 2012 season. The Sting finished their inaugural season with an 0–7 record, last place in the Northern Conference. The franchise moved to Coral Gables, Florida for the 2013 season, to be known as the Miami Sting . The Sting will play their home games at
323-472: The team adopted the restaurant's owlish logo and trademark colors as its own for three years, until this unusual arrangement terminated after the completion of the 1995 season. Desirous of staying in the general South Florida area, the team relocated to West Palm Beach as the Florida Bobcats. Subsequent linking of team names with products was to occur, notably the AFL's own New Jersey Red Dogs (named for
342-427: The year's events in world sport. Charlton Athletic FC return to The Valley after a seven year exodus playing at Selhurst Park and Upton Park, and a long struggle to return: Charlton supporters formed a political party called 'The Valley Party' to contest the local May 1990 Greenwich elections on one single policy: to return to The Valley. It was a lively and passionate debate about something which mattered deeply to
361-579: Was made in the 2001 season to sell the team to various prospective owners, including Mark Cuban , who later bought the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA , but nothing came of the deal. The following Attack/Hooters/Bobcats players were named to All-Arena Teams: The following Attack/Hooters/Bobcats players were named to All-Ironman Teams: The following Attack/Hooters/Bobcats players were named to All-Rookie Teams: 1992 in sports 1992 in sports describes
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