Tag: The Omni

1973-74 Atlanta Flames Media Guide from the National Hockey League

Atlanta Flames

July 31, 2019

This was a good 1970’s NHL expansion team!  No, really. The Atlanta Flames had a winning record in five of their eight seasons as the NHL’s only Deep South outpost. They made the playoffs six out of those eight years. They had a core of outstanding young players and a future Hall-of-Fame executive in the GM chair. But the collective memory of the Atlanta Flames is that they weren’t very good because they were God-awful in the playoffs (objectively true) and Southerners hate ice hockey (possibly true, definitely a well-worn trope).

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1989-90 Atlanta Attack Program

Atlanta Attack

November 6, 2016

Short-lived effort to re-establish the sport of indoor soccer at Atlanta’s Omni coliseum. The Atlanta Attack (1989-1991) followed the earlier tenure of the Atlanta Chiefs of the North American Soccer League, who played two indoor campaigns at the Omni between 1979 and 1981.

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Atlanta Knights International Hockey League

Atlanta Knights

January 1, 2015

The Atlanta Knights were a minor league hockey franchise that played at the Omni Coliseum from 1992 through 1996.  The arrival of the Knights marked the return of pro hockey to Atlanta for the first time since 1980, when the NHL’s Atlanta Flames departed for Calgary. The Knights won the Turner Cup as champions of the International Hockey League in 1994. In 1996, the team moved to Quebec City and became the Quebec Rafales.

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Atlanta Chiefs North American Soccer League

Atlanta Chiefs (1979-1981)

May 12, 2013

A rare misfire for sports & media mogul Ted Turner.  This 1979-1981 edition of the Atlanta Chiefs pro soccer team was actually a resurrection of an earlier club, also known as the Atlanta Chiefs, that played in the city from 1967 to 1972.  Both editions of the Chiefs were tied into the Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves through common ownership (hence the Native American-themed identity).

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