Tag: Riverfront Coliseum

1981 Cincinnati Tigers program from the Central Hockey League

Cincinnati Tigers

July 23, 2013

The Cincinnati Tigers were a very strong farm club of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs in the winter of 1981-82. Despite the Tigers’ winning ways, Cincinnati was a graveyard for pro hockey teams and attendance was meager. The Leafs shut down the Tigers in May of 1982 after the club’s first and only season ended.  The Tigers became the third pro hockey team to fail at Riverfront Coliseum in just the past three years, following two different incarnations of the Cincinnati Stingers, which both bit the dust in 1979.

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1978-79 Cincinnati Kids Ticket Brochure from the Major Indoor Soccer League

Cincinnati Kids

January 12, 2013

The Cincinnati Kids were a One-Year Wonder in the original Major Indoor Soccer League (1978-1992).  They were active only for the league’s inaugural season in the winter of 1978-79 and folded shortly thereafter. The Kids gained some minor notoriety by virtue of the fact that Cincinnati Reds star Pete Rose was part of the team’s 10-man ownership group.

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1978 Cincinnati Stingers Program from the World Hockey Association

Cincinnati Stingers

August 4, 2012

The Cincinnati Stingers hockey team began life in the upstart World Hockey Association in the winter of 1975-76.  Owners Bill DeWitt Jr. and Brian Heekin originally sought to land an NHL expansion club for the Queen City, failed, and then accepted the first expansion franchise awarded by the fledgling WHA as a fallback option in May 1973. 

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