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The Omni Coliseum, known simply as The Omni in Atlanta, opened in 1972 and was the home of the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and NHL's Atlanta Flames. The Atlanta Chiefs soccer team played their indoor games there as did the Atlanta Attack soccer team. The...

The Savannah Sand Gnats were a minor league baseball team that played in the Class A South Atlantic League from 1984 to 2015. Up until 1995, they were nicknamed the Cardinals. They were a farm team for several big league club's over their history,...

The Atlanta Legends were charter members of the short-lived Alliance of American Football (AAF), a league that launched in spring 2019. The Legends home field was Georgia State Stadium. The AAF folded halfway through its inaugural season.??

The Birmingham Fire??were charter members of the NFL-run World League of American Football (WLAF) in 1991. In their first season the Fire finished with a 5 and 5 record but qualified for the playoffs. They lost to the Barcelona Dragons in the semi-final. The...

The Atlanta Attack began play in 1989 as an expansion team in the American Indoor Soccer Association. Their home pitch was The Omni. In 1991, they relocated to Kansas City.

In the early 1950s, between 20,000-60,000 people a year were becoming afflicted with polio. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh developed a polio vaccine in 1952. By 1955 a campaign to vaccinate children in the U.S. was launched. ALbert Sabin...

The Georgia Dome was opened in 1992 and primarily served as the home the NFL Atlanta Falcons from 1992 through 2016, replacing Atlanta Fulton County stadium, built in 1966. It was demolished on November 20, 2017. The facility also was home to the NBA...

The Macon Whoopee played in the Central Hockey League (CHL) from 1996 to 2001. The team took its name from a previous squad that played in the city for part of the 1973-74 Southern Hockey League season. After the second Whoopee team folded, the??Tallahassee...

The Atlanta Glory was a women’s basketball team that competed in the American Basketball League for two seasons in the mid-1990’s. OS15807

The Atlanta Knights were members of the International Hockey League (IHL) from 1992 to 1996. They??played at the Omni Coliseum and were winners of the 1994 Turner Cup. In 1996, the team moved to Quebec to become the Rafales. The following year, the NHL...

The??Georgia Force played in the Arena Football League?????from 2002 to 2012. The team was founded the Nashville Kats in 1997 and moved to Atlanta in 2002.??

The Chicago Fire were a charter member of the World Football League in 1974. The team started off well, posting a 7-2 record in the first half of the season and drawing an average of 34,000 fans to Soldier Field. However, after a 10-game...

Soccer Bowl '83 was the penultimate championship game played by the original North American Soccer League (NASL). The NASL was??formed in 1967 when the competing United Soccer Association and the National Professional Soccer League decided to join forces. For the next 12 seasons, it...

The Albany Firebirds played in the Arena Football League?????from 1990 to 2010. While in the New York State capital, they won six division titles, made nine playoff appearances, and won the 1999??ArenaBowl??championship. Despite their success on the field and at the gate, the team...

The Ft. Wayne Flames played in the American Indoor Soccer Association from 1986 to 1989. The won the league runners-up in 1988.