The Staten Island Vipers were a short-lived 2nd Division pro soccer club that served as an affiliate of the 1st Division New York/New Jersey MetroStars of Major League Soccer. The team lasted just two seasons on Staten Island in 1998 and 1999. In their finest hour, the Vipers upset their parent club, the MetroStars, in the 3rd Round of the 1999 U.S. Open Cup tournament.
The Maryland Mania was a seemingly cursed 2nd Division pro soccer club that existed for only one season in the United Soccer Leagues’ A-League during the summer of 1999. The A-League was the 2nd Division of men’s pro soccer in the United States at the time, competing one level below Major League Soccer.
The Boston Bulldogs were a short-lived lower-division American pro soccer side that played in suburban Framingham, Massachusetts from 1999 through 2001. The team served as a farm club of Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution. Former Scottish international Steve Nicol, who won England’ Football of the Year award with Liverpool in 1988-89, was the Bulldogs player-manager. The money-bleeding professional club disbanded following the 2001 season and transitioned its business activities towards an elite youth soccer academy that became known as Mass Premier Soccer.
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