The Portland Pride played in all five seasons of the Continental Indoor Soccer League, a summertime league that had heavy investment from NBA owners. Although the Pride shared Memorial Coliseum and later the Rose Garden arena with the NBA’s Portland Trailblazers, they did not share common ownership as many CISL teams in NBA cities did. The Pride had only one winning season – their first, in 1993 – and never made it beyond the first round of the CISL playoffs.
The Portland Rage were a two-year entry in Roller Hockey International, a start-up summertime league that sought to capitalize on the 1990’s surge of interest for in-line skating. The Rage played out of Memorial Coliseum, the Rose City’s NBA arena at the time, during the summers of 1993 and 1994. The 1994 squad made a Cinderella run to RHI’s Murphy Cup championship series before falling to the favored Buffalo Stampede in a two-game sweep. The club quietly disbanded after the season.
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