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An interior panorama of PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, PA. Shortly after PPG Paints was built, the Arena Football League considered starting an expansion team in the arena, [69] but the league folded in August 2009. [70] However, after a two-year hiatus, the AFL returned and eyed an expansion team in Pittsburgh. [71]
The American Arena League (AAL) is a professional indoor football minor league that began playing in 2018. The league was initiated by a merger between Arena Pro Football (APF) and the Can-Am Indoor Football League (Can-Am), although the AAL only claimed the APF history after the former Can-Am founder left the league.
The Tampa Bay Storm, formed as the Pittsburgh Gladiators in 1987, was the oldest franchise in the AFL (and the last remaining inaugural team) before folding in 2017. The following is a list of Arena Football League (AFL) teams. The AFL was a professional indoor American football league based in the United States.
It has one of the largest number of currently active teams among indoor football leagues. As of the 2024 season, the league consists of 16 teams in two conferences with each team playing 16 games over 19 weeks. The league has operated continuously under the same name and corporate structure longer than any other current indoor football league.
Arena football is a variety of gridiron football designed to be played indoors. The game is played on a smaller field than American or Canadian football, designed to fit in the same surface area as a standard North American ice hockey rink, and features between six and eight players for each team playing at any given time depending on the league, resulting in a faster and higher-scoring game ...
League Venue First season (in Pittsburgh) Last season (in Pittsburgh) Championships (in Pittsburgh) Fate of team Allegheny Athletic Association: American football: Western Pennsylvania Professional Football Circuit: Recreation Park: 1890: 1896: 1890, 1892, 1894, 1896: Club folded team Duquesne Country and Athletic Club: American football
Mr. Smalls is a live music venue in the Millvale neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.It is an eclectic and innovative indie venue [1] due to its location in a converted church from the early 20th century, [2] its multiple interior event spaces (including four stages, a recording studio, multiple bars, and a restaurant), and its hosting of thousands of national, regional and local artists ...
In 1902, three Pennsylvania teams founded the National Football League (which has no ties to today's NFL), the first attempt at a national professional football league. Jim Thorpe , a multi-sport athlete who played in the NFL and won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon , attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle ...