Tag: Jacksonville Coliseum

Logo of the Jacksonville Generals from the American Indoor Soccer Association

Jacksonville Generals

July 9, 2022

The Jacksonville Generals represent a strange footnote from the 1980’s indoor soccer phenomenon. The Generals competed only in a 12-game postseason showcase tournament known as the “Challenge Cup” put on by the American Indoor Soccer Association (AISA) during the late winter and spring of 1988. The club never played a regular season game in any league. A number of former Jacksonville Tea Men of the early 80’s returned to play for the Generals including Arnie Mausser, Ricardo Alonso, Alan Green and head coach Dennis Viollet.

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Jacksonville Jets Continental Basketball Association

Jacksonville Jets

July 5, 2021

The short-lived Jacksonville Jets had played all of ten days in their new home city before team owner Ted Stepien began threatening to move his nomadic Continental Basketball Association (CBA) franchise. Again.

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1992-93 Jacksonville Bullets program from the Sunshine Hockey League

Jacksonville Bullets

July 26, 2020

The Jacksonville Bullets were a low-level minor league hockey team that began play in 1992-93 as an founding member of the 5-team, all-Florida Sunshine Hockey League. The formation of the Bullets marked the return of pro hockey to Jacksonville for the first time since the American Hockey League’s short-lived Jacksonville Barons left town in 1974. The Bullets folded in the face of superior competition form the ECHL’s Jacksonville Lizard Kings in 1996.

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1983 Jacksonville Tea Men Soccer

Jacksonville Tea Men (1980-1984)

June 6, 2015

Jacksonville’s first professional soccer team was the oddly named “Tea Men”. The Teas arrived in 1981, starting out in the top flight North American Soccer League and the 80,000-seat Gator Bowl before gradually self-relegating to cheaper, lower division leagues and minor league baseball’s Wolfson Park by their final season in 1984. The strange moniker carried over from the team’s previous home in New England (Boston), where the Tea Men name had a double meaning, referring both to the Boston Tea Party protest of 1773 and the team’s original corporate owner, the Lipton Tea Company. The Teas were champions of the American Soccer League in 1983.

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2002 Jacksonville Tomcats Program from Arena Football 2

Jacksonville Tomcats

August 7, 2013

The Jacksonville Tomcats played for three seasons in Arena Football 2 (AF2), the small-market developmental league of the now-defunct Arena Football League (AFL). The Tomcats, who played out of the old Jacksonville Coliseum, closed their doors after three seasons in November 2002.

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