Detroit Lightning
January 16, 2012
The Detroit Lightning were a short-lived indoor soccer team that played one Major Indoor Soccer League season at Cobo Arena during the winter of 1979-80. The Detroit Express of the rival North American Soccer League, staged a competing season that same winter, playing on an indoor field awkwardly tucked into a corner of the vast Pontiac Silverdome. Following the season, the Lightning were sold and moved to San Francisco.