MISL: Memphis Americans Indoor Soccer

Source:MISL- with a look at the Memphis Americans soccer club in 1984.

"Memphis Americans Soccer highlights from WMC-TV Memphis with Jack Eaton 1984" 

From Skiati

Pre-mid-2000s, Memphis, Tennessee never had a major league pro sports franchise. Unless you want to count the Memphis Showboats from the United States Football League in 1983 and the Memphis Mad Dogs from the Canadian Football League in 1994-95. 

But Memphis has always been a big city and major market, with a lot of sports fans and ever major stadiums and indoor arenas, as well it being a big, fairly wealthy city and great entertainment center. So the non-major sports leagues in America (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL) have always wanted a piece of the action (pun intended) in Memphis, but have never been successful.

Joey Teefizz: MISL 1985- St. Louis Steamers @ Las Vegas Americans: Highlights

Source:Joey Teefizz- the St. Louis Steamers vs the Las Vegas Americans, from  December, 1984.

"MISL Soccer in Vegas baby...great halftime piece and good solid goals in a close one" 

From Joey Teefizz

Las Vegas has had multiple indoor soccer franchises in multiple leagues. The MISL expanded to Las Vegas in the 1980s and the Continental Indoor Soccer League in the mid 1990s. Pro sports leagues, including major sports leagues have always wanted a piece of the action (pun intended) in Las Vegas, Nevada and to prove that Las Vegas was more than a gambling, rodeo, and boxing market when it came to pro sports. But other than minor league baseball, all of those leagues have failed in Las Vegas. 

St. Louis on the other hand is to major indoor soccer what Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles have been for the NBA: it's hard to imagine pro indoor soccer without a franchise in St. Louis. St. Louis has always been a great soccer market as far as the support that the people give there to indoor soccer. Which is why I'm surprised outdoor soccer has never had a home in St. Louis and why Major League Soccer has never expanded there.  

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This Week in Soccer: The Houston Hotshots (1994)

Source:This Week in Soccer- from a profile of the 1994 Houston Hotshots.

"Houston Hotshots 1994 / Mirko Castillo"  

From This Week in Soccer

The Houston Hotshots of the old Continental Indoor Soccer League.