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The Toronto ThunderHawks were an indoor soccer team that played for a single season at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga during the winter of 2000-01. The ThunderHawks marked the second of two unsuccessful attempts by the National Professional Soccer League to establish a club in Toronto. They followed in the footsteps of the Toronto Shooting Stars who played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto proper during the winter of 1996-97.
This One-Year Wonder entry in the National Professional Soccer League had a handful of talented indoor players. But the 1992-93 Denver Thunder turned in an absolutely gruesome season both on the floor and off.
The St. Louis Ambush were a popular indoor soccer team during the that played a winter schedule at the old St. Louis Arena and later at the Kiel Center for eight seasons between 1992 and 2000. The Ambush were champions of the National Professional Soccer League in 1995.
Baltimore has long been the most resilient outpost for the fading sport of indoor soccer. The city has enjoyed Blast soccer at the ancient Baltimore Arena for over 40 years now. At the peak of the indoor game’s popularity in the mid-80’s, the Blast packed 10,000 a night into the building. The Blast’s fortunes began a long steady decline in the late 1980’s. But the team has stubbornly soldiered on, surviving the rise and fall of countless leagues, rivals, rule changes and business model gimmicks. The one exception was a six-year stretch in the 1990’s, after the original Blast folded and a successor franchise, the Baltimore Spirit, took up residence at the Arena.
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