There are thousands of teams on Fun While It Lasted, but only one – that we know of – named in tribute to former Doors lead singer Jim Morrison. That would be the now-defunct Jacksonville Lizards Kings of the East Coast Hockey League.
The International Hockey League’s Quebec Rafales set up shop at Le Colisee in 1996, replacing the recently departed Nordiques of the National Hockey League. For a minor league, the IHL offered a high quality of play. But by the late 1990’s the 50-year old circuit was unraveling following a continent-wide orgy of expansion earlier in the decade. The Rafales went out of business after two seasons of play in 1998.
The Pensacola Barracudas were a brief entry in Arena Football 2 (AF2), the small-market developmental league to the original Arena Football League (1987-2008). The Barracudas played three spring/summer seasons at the Pensacola Civic Center from 2000 to 2002 before going out of business in November of 2002.
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