The Cincinnati Swarm were a Arena Football 2 franchise that played a single season at the U.S. Bank Arena (AKA Riverfront Coliseum) during the summer of 2003. The Swarm were just another chapter in that building’s grim history with indoor football, following the Cincinnati Rockers (1991-1992) and preceding the Marshalls (2005-2006) and the Jungle Kats (2007).
The fourth time was not the charm for the Arena Football brand in Cincinnati. Celebrity ownership in the form of Cincinnati Reds slugger Ken Griffey Jr. and former All-Pro defensive lineman Sam Adams of the Cincinnati Bengals wasn’t enough to make the Cincinnati Jungle Kats succeed where the Rockers (1992-1993), the Swarm (2003) and the Marshals (2005-2006) failed before them. Like all three of their predecessors, the Jungle Kats played at U.S. Bank Arena (formerly the Riverfront Coliseum).
The Cincinnati Silverbacks were an indoor soccer team that played three seasons in the National Professional Soccer League from 1995 until 1998. After two seasons at the Cincinnati Gardens, the Silverbacks played their final campaign at Riverfront Coliseum (or “The Crown” as it was then known) during the winter of 1997-98. The Silverbacks represented the Queen City’s second go at professional indoor soccer following the Cincinnati Kids of the Major Indoor Soccer League, who played at the Riverfront Coliseum in 1979.
Arena Football League (1992-1993) Born: October 11, 1991 – AFL expansion franchise Folded: October 28, 1993 First Game: May 30, 1992 (W 37-34 vs. Detroit Drive)
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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