Major Indoor Soccer League (2001-2005) Born: July 14, 2003 – MISL expansion franchise Folded (Fury): October 22, 2004 Folded (Tigres): December 30, 2004 First Game: October
This second version of indoor soccer’s Kansas City Comets that ran from 2001 to 2005 was an attempted brand revival of the wildly popular club of the same name that ruled Kansas City winters during the early 1980’s. This franchise was actually better known as the Kansas City Attack and had a nice long run of its own during the 1990’s. The attempt to capitalize on nostalgia for the original Comets fizzled and the Attack/new Comets closed up shop after 14 seasons in 2005.
The Ironmen were a short-lived indoor soccer team out of Newark, New Jersey operated by perhaps the last rich men in the indoor game: the co-owners of the NHL’s New Jersey Devils. Various NBA and NHL owners bet on indoor soccer a number of times during the 1980’s and 1990’s. But by the early 2000’s the indoor game was in steady decline. When Devils owner Jeff Vanderbeek appeared alongside Newark Mayor Cory Booker at a press conference in June 2007 to unveil an MISL expansion franchise for the soon-to-open $375 million Prudential Center, the announcement felt like a relic of a bygone era.
This was Cleveland Force version 2.0, a nostalgic brand re-boot of Cleveland’s tremendously popular Major Indoor Soccer League team of the 1980’s. This latter day edition of the Force, which played from 2002 until 2005, reclaimed the earlier club’s Reflex Blue and Yellow colors along with the brand name, but could not rekindle the popularity of its predecessor.
The Philadelphia Kixx were a long-running indoor soccer team that enjoyed strong popularity in the City of Brotherly Love for a few years during the late 1990’s. The Kixx won two league championships during their fourteen-year run, capturing Major Indoor Soccer League titles in 2002 and 2007.
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