Category: Major Indoor Lacrosse League

1991 Pittsburgh Bulls program from the Major Indoor Lacrosse League

Pittsburgh Bulls

January 2, 2020

The Pittsburgh Bulls were the Steel City’s first introduction to the sport of box (indoor) lacrosse. The Bulls were part of the winter/spring Major Indoor Lacrosse League for four seasons during the early 1990’s. Despite several outstanding individual players, including Canadian attacker Brian Nikula and former Johns Hopkins defenseman Dave Pietramala, Pittsburgh never put it all together as a team. The Bulls endured four straight losing seasons before folding in 1993.

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Boston Blazers MILL Lacrosse

New England Blazers / Boston Blazers (1989-1997)

June 20, 2018

The New England Blazers were an expansion entry in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League during the winter of 1989. The club played initially in the small central Massachusetts city of Worcester before moving to the Boston Garden 1992. A little over a decade after the original Blazers went out business in 1997, a re-booted version of the Blazers took the floor at Boston’s TD Garden from 2009 to 2011, albeit without the original club’s garish orange, green & white uniforms.

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1991 Major Indoor Lacrosse League Yearbook

Detroit Turbos

December 15, 2017

The Detroit Turbos brought their brand of brawling, high scoring box lacrosse to the Joe Louis Arena for six winters in the early 1990’s. The Turbos’ glory years came in 1991 and 1992 after the team drafted and signed superstar twins Gary Gait and Paul Gait out of Syracuse University.  The Gait brothers led the Turbos to the championship of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League during their rookie season of 1991. The Turbos fortunes declined after the Gaits left for the rival Philadelphia Wings in 1993 and the team shut down after the 1994 season.

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1996 Charlotte Cobras Pocket Schedule from the Major Indoor Lacrosse League

Charlotte Cobras

February 8, 2014

Major Indoor Lacrosse League (1996) Born: October 2, 1995 – MILL expansion franchise Folded: August 21, 1996 – The Cobras cease operations First Game: January

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