Kansas City Comets (1981-1991)
February 23, 2013
Imagine if some upstart sport – a junk sport as some of the old cranks in the sporting press would call it – went into an big city arena next fall and outdrew the local NBA team. Not just outdrew it, but nearly doubled their average gate for each game and eventually drove the NBA out of town. It’s inconceivable that a sport like indoor lacrosse or arena football could blindside a city like this today. But this is exactly what happened in Kansas City in the early 1980’s with the arrival of the Comets and the Major Indoor Soccer League.
