Chicago Bruisers
May 21, 2011
The Chicago Bruisers were one of four founding teams during the debut season of the Arena Football League in 1987. The Bruisers debuted at the Rosemont Horizon on June 20th, 1987 against the Denver Dynamite with a national cable TV audience on ESPN. The teams treated the announced crowd of 10,103 to the exactly type of hyperactive end-to-end scoring that the new sport envisioned. The Bruisers blew an eight point lead and missed a game winning field goal attempt – all in the final 43 seconds of regulation – before falling 52-44 in overtime.
