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| Source:Eddie Bear- the KC Comets and NY Arrows from 1983. |
Source:Real Life Journal
"Kansas City Comets at New York Arrows, 1982-83 MISL Season"
From Eddie Bear
I don't know this for sure, but I'm willing to bet that the New York Arrows are the least successful and least popular of all the American sports franchises that have not only won their league championship, but multiple league championships.
From 1979-82, the New York Arrows won the first 4 MISL Championships and yet they got out of business after the 1984 season. Why, because they struggled to draw 5,000 fans, even in their playoff and championship series games, in an arena that seated over 16,000 for indoor soccer, the Nassau Veterans Coliseum, in Long Island New York.
The Kansas City Comets/Attack are one of the most successful indoor soccer franchises anywhere in North America. Not just America, but Canada and Mexico as well. And not just with the championships, but they've been in business in indoor soccer since the beginning, at least the beginning of the MISL.
So this Comets-Arrows game was a great matchup as far as the amount of championships that both franchises have one. But only the small market, mid-size city, Kansas City Comets have been successful as far as drawing fans and viewers to their games.
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