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2300 Arena
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Located in South Philadelphia under an elevated stretch of Interstate 95, it is named after its address at 2300 South Swanson Street. The facility was originally a warehouse that was built in 1974. Rail tracks next to the building allowed trains to drop off freight for storage, the tracks were eventually paved over to become an extension of West Ritner Street, allowing West Ritner Street to intersect with South Swanson Street. Elias Stein and Leon Silverman of the law firm Stein & Silverman Family Partnership, the southern part of the facility was given the name Viking Hall when the South Philadelphia Viking Club, a local chapter of mummers, began utilizing it. They used the building for storage and to rehearse for the annual Mummers Parade, the Viking Club would also stage midnight bingo games at the venue to raise funds for their organization. The northern part of the building was occupied by retail space, ECW broadcast Barely Legal, their first live pay-per-view event from the venue in April 1997. The event was headlined by Terry Funk defeating Raven to become ECW World Heavyweight Champion, immediately following the broadcast, the building lost power. Paul Heyman commented in April 1998 as to whether ECW would run another pay-per-view event from the venue, the promotion gradually moved its shows away from Philadelphia, running only 6 events at the venue in 2000. The final ECW show at the venue was Holiday Hell in December 2000, headlined by Steve Corino retaining his ECW World Heavyweight Championship against Justin Credible and The Sandman. Ring of Honor opted to run their shows at Murphy Recreation Center, controversy arose when Xtreme Pro Wrestling signed an exclusive lease with the venue in December 2002 and renamed the building XPW Arena, preventing other promotions from utilizing it. Forced to relocate, CZW moved their shows to the new CZW Arena in Southwest Philadelphia, in January 2003, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission banned barbed wire and light tubes from professional wrestling matches in response to violent XPW and CZW events at the venue. The buildings ownership evicted XPW from the venue in February 2003 after the failed to make lease payments. CZW resumed running shows at the venue in March 2003, with 3PW returning in November 2003, the buildings name was officially changed to New Alhambra Sports & Entertainment Center in 2004, and was later shortened to New Alhambra Arena in 2006 and Alhambra Arena in 2008. The name was suggested by J. Russell Peltz, who began co-promoting professional boxing cards at the venue with Joe Hand Promotions in May 2004 and it paid homage to the original Alhambra Movie Theater in South Philadelphia that hosted boxing in the 1950s and 1960s. In June 2005, an unofficial ECW reunion show called Hardcore Homecoming, An Extreme Reunion drew a sell-out crowd, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission lifted their January 2003 ban on barbed wire for the main event between Sabu, Shane Douglas and Terry Funk. ROH debuted at the venue in March 2006 with Arena Warfare, the event was headlined by Samoa Joe defeating Colt Cabana and Christopher Daniels. Total Nonstop Action Wrestling debuted at the venue in June 2006 with Hardcore War, the event was headlined by Americas Most Wanted, the NWA World Tag Team Champions, facing Team 3D and The James Gang in a non-title match. The ECW brand of WWE ran a show at the venue in June 2006
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The Arena, Ottawa
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The Arena, also known as Deys Arena was an arena for ice hockey located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was the home of the Ottawa Hockey Club from 1908 to 1923 and it was the third in a series of ice hockey venues built by the Dey family of Ottawa. At the time of its building, it was Canadas largest arena, the arena was built in 1907 and was built because audiences for hockey matches had out-grown the previous arena, known as Deys Rink or Deys Arena. The spectator capacity was 7,000, of which 2,500 was standing room. The Arena, as it was called, was built on leased land at Laurier Avenue at the Rideau Canal, on the location of todays Confederation Park, near the current Ottawa city hall. This is very close to the location of the first Deys Rink and it is also close to the location of the Royal Rink at 28 Slater, which was where the Ottawa Hockey Club first practised in 1883. The land for The Arena was leased from landowner Esther Sherwood for the rate of $166.66 per month, the Arena opened on January 11,1908 for a game between Ottawa and the Montreal Wanderers, the top rivalry of the day. The last Senators game at the arena was held on March 10,1923, the Ottawa Auditorium was also built by the Deys, who were part owners of the Ottawa Senators. This third rink was torn down by the government at the end of the lease in 1927 to make way for the ceremonial Driveway improvement project along the Rideau Canal. The Arena hosted the 1910 and 1911 Stanley Cup challenges, the Arena was used for other sports as well as ice hockey. The 1912 Canadian Figure Skating Championships were held in February 1912 at the Arena, boxing matches were held there including Canadian heavyweight champion Tommy Burns versus Len Darcy, and Canadian lightweight champion Bobby Ebber versus Homer LeBlanc on October 16,1925. The matches drew over two thousand fans, the Arena was a large improvement internally from the previous Dey Arena. The dressing rooms, rest rooms, smoking rooms and lobby were steam-heated, the main doors were on Laurier Avenue, and a north entrance existed onto Slater Street, which at the time extended to the Canal. The exterior was simple, and did not meet Sherwoods lease criteria of an architectural feature of Ottawa. At its building, it was the largest ice arena in Canada, the Arena ice surface was unusually shaped. Both ends are curved, with no straight sections behind the net and this design was passed along to the successor Ottawa Auditorium ice surface design. Dey Brothers rinks were home to the Senators, the long road to the Palladium
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Team Fortress 2
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Team Fortress 2 is a team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It is the sequel to the 1996 mod Team Fortress for Quake and it was released as part of the video game compilation The Orange Box on October 10,2007 for Windows and the Xbox 360. A PlayStation 3 version followed on December 11,2007, on April 8,2008, it was released as a standalone title for Windows. The game was updated to support OS X on June 10,2010 and it is distributed online through Valves download retailer Steam, retail distribution was handled by Electronic Arts. In Team Fortress 2, players join one of two teams comprising nine character classes, battling in a variety of modes including capture the flag. The development is led by John Cook and Robin Walker, creators of the original Team Fortress, announced in 1998, the game once had more realistic, militaristic visuals and gameplay, but this changed over the protracted nine-year development. After Valve released no information for six years, Team Fortress 2 regularly featured in Wired News annual vaporware list among other ignominies, the finished Team Fortress 2 has cartoon-like visuals influenced by the art of J. C. Leyendecker, Dean Cornwell and Norman Rockwell and is powered by Valves Source engine, Team Fortress 2 received critical acclaim for its art direction, gameplay, humor, and use of character in a multiplayer-only game. Valve continues to release new content, including maps, items and game modes, as well as community-made updates, on June 23,2011, it became free to play, supported by microtransactions for unique in-game equipment. A drop system was added and refined in this update, allowing free-to-play users to periodically receive game equipment. Though the game has had a competitive scene for many years, support for competitive play through ranked matchmaking. Team Fortress 2 has similar gameplay as previous releases in the due to its focus around two opposing teams competing for a combat-based objective. Players can choose to play as one of nine classes in these teams, each with his own unique strengths, weaknesses. In order to accomplish objectives efficiently, a balance of these classes is required due to how these strengths, in addition, a number of community assembled maps have been released. When players join a level for the first time, a video shows how to complete its objectives. During matches, The Administrator, a woman voiced by Ellen McLain, the player limit is 16 on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. On the PC, in 2008 Valve updated Team Fortress 2 to include a variable that allows up to 32 players. Team Fortress 2 is the first of Valves multiplayer games to provide detailed statistics for individual players and they include, time spent playing as each class, most points obtained, and the most captures or objectives achieved in a single life
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Arena di Verona Festival
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The Arena di Verona Festival is a summer festival of opera, located in the city of Verona Italy. Performances traditionally begin at dusk and spectactors on the seats of the arena bring small candles which are lit as darkness falls. Their staging of Aida in the biggest open-air lyrical theatre in the world began a long tradition, in the following year Zenatello and others returned and, in the years before 1936, a variety of organizations took over the presentations. Finally, in 1936, a permanent organization was created, significant artistic achievements Many singers made their names and careers by performing at Verona. In 1929 Beniamino Gigli thrilled audiences with his appearances in Flotows Martha, between 1947 and 1954 Maria Callas was a regular after creating a sensation in Ponchiellis La Gioconda. In addition to singers, directors and designers added distinguishing elements to such as the 1953 water pool created for Aida by silent cinema director Georg Wilhelm Pabst. His aim was to conjure up the image of the Nile on which little Egyptian boats could sail, dance and classic concert performances have also been given in the Arena. Classical ballets and traditional dances from all over the world have been seen, in 1976, Maurice Béjart brought the Ballet du XXe Siècle from the La Monnaie opera house in Brussels and choreographed Beethovens 9th symphony. This première was interrupted by rain, but the continued to a cassette tape of the music. Since 1976 the organization has expanded its activities from October to May in the rebuilt Teatro Filarmonico. List of opera festivals Verona Arena website, in English
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Point Arena, California
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Point Arena is a small coastal city in Mendocino County, California, United States. Point Arena is located 31 miles west of Hopland, at an elevation of 118 feet, the population was 449 at the 2010 census, down from 474 at the 2000 census, making it one of the smallest incorporated cities in the state. It is also the western most city in the continental United States Its main street comprises part of State Route 1, along with a number of other Mendocino County coastal communities, Point Arena is associated with the hippie and subsequent counterculture groups. Reportedly, the economy is geared toward servicing the summertime tourist industry. The City is near the headquarters of the lands of Manchester Band of Pomo Indians of the Manchester-Point Arena Rancheria. The City is adjacent to the recently formed Point Arena Stornetta Public Lands National Monument, hiking Trails can be accesses at the Point Arena City Hall Parking. Spectacular coastal prairie and ocean views await, of special note is Arena Cove and pier with huge ocean front bluffs showing power of the interface of the Tectonic plates. The City of Point Arena is located at 38°54′32″N 123°41′35″W and it is in USPS ZIP code 95468. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 1.4 square miles. This is the location of the Point Arena Lighthouse, at 115 feet the tallest lighthouse on the West coast of the United States, the lighthouse is also the closest location on the mainland to Honolulu, Hawaii at a distance of 2,353 miles. The city has three schools, Point Arena High School, South Coast Continuation High School and the Pacific Community Charter High School. The choice of the school has helped to keep in Point Arena many students who formerly commuted to Mendocino to attend its high school. A variety of fauna and flora occur in the Point Arena area, the location is also sometimes a range demarcation for occurrence of some species. For example, the Pacific giant salamander occurs at Point Arena and at points south, the Point Arena State Marine Reserve & Point Arena State Marine Conservation Area are two marine protected areas that extend offshore from Point Arena. Sea Lion Cove State Marine Conservation Area and Saunders Reef State Marine Conservation Area lie south of Point Arena, like underwater parks, these marine protected areas help conserve ocean wildlife and marine ecosystems. Sound levels in Point Arena are relatively quiet, with locations at night-time dominated by natural sounds such as those of the surf. The maximum acceptable sound level specified in that General Plan Element is 60 Leq for residential areas, Point Arena has cool, wet winters and mild, relatively dry summers. According to the Köppen climate classification system, it has warm-summer Mediterranean climate, the average January temperatures are a maximum of 56.4 °F and a minimum of 40.2 °F
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Arena rock
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Arena rock is a style of rock music that originated in the mid 1970s. In the mid-1970s, increased power of amplification and sound systems allowed the use of larger and larger venues, smoke, fireworks and sophisticated lighting shows became staples of arena rock performances. The use of commercial sponsorship for the tours and concerts of this era began to lead to the music being branded, usually pejoratively. The popularity of stadium rock resulted in a number of reactions, including the pub rock and punk rock movements in the 1970s. In the 1980s, arena rock became dominated by metal bands, following the lead of Aerosmith and including Mötley Crüe, Quiet Riot, W. A. S. P. Their popularity was challenged by the rock bands who began to breakthrough to the mainstream, particularly after the success of Nirvana. Boston Foreigner Peter Frampton Kiss Journey Queen REO Speedwagon Styx Cock rock Glam metal Sources Joyner, continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. This Aint the Summer of Love, Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk
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Arena, Wisconsin
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Arena is a village in Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 834 at the 2010 census, the village is located within the Town of Arena. It is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, Arena is located at 43°9′57″N 89°54′26″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has an area of 1.16 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 834 people,323 households, the population density was 725.2 inhabitants per square mile. There were 354 housing units at a density of 307.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 97. 8% White,0. 2% African American,0. 1% Native American,0. 5% Asian,0. 2% Pacific Islander,0. 5% from other races, and 0. 6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 8% of the population,26. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.58 and the family size was 3.14. The median age in the village was 33.4 years. 29. 6% of residents were under the age of 18,6. 7% were between the ages of 18 and 24,33. 2% were from 25 to 44,22. 7% were from 45 to 64, and 7. 9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 50. 7% male and 49. 3% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 685 people,256 households, and 182 families residing in the village. The population density was 628.5 people per square mile, there were 269 housing units at an average density of 246.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 98. 54% White,1. 31% Asian,0. 73% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 24. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.68 and the average family size was 3.14. In the village, the population was out with 30. 2% under the age of 18,6. 9% from 18 to 24,35. 2% from 25 to 44,18. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 32 years, for every 100 females there were 106.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.4 males, the median income for a household in the village was $45,870, and the median income for a family was $49,375
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OpenArena
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OpenArena is a free and open-source video game, it is first-person shooter and a video game clone of Quake III Arena. The OpenArena project was established on August 19,2005, one day after the id Tech 3 source code released under GNU GPL license and its official website includes downloads for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X operating systems. Thanks to third-party efforts, it is available from the default repositories of a number of open-source operating systems, including Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandriva, Arch. It is also in development for the Maemo mobile operating system, ports for Raspberry Pi, Android and iOS are available, too. Each match happens in an arena, a map where players try to kill each other, some arenas are designed for Capture the flag and similar gametypes, the Quake III style of play is very fast and requires skill to be played successfully online. Its an arcade-style gameplay which allows to move through maps thanks to bouncepads, accelerator pads, teleporters and advanced techniques such as strafe jumping. The game can be played online or offline, team Deathmatch is a team-based variation of Deathmatch, with two teams of players being pitted against the other. Tournament chooses two players and makes them duel, in a winner stays, loser gets out setting. Capture The Flag is a mode where each team spawns in a base which contains a flag. They must capture the teams flag while keeping their own flag from being captured. One Flag CTF is a variation of Capture The Flag where a white flag spawns in the middle of the map, harvester is another team-based mode played in some Capture The Flag scenarios. Each team spawns with a Skull Receptacle, and theres a Skull Generator at the middle of the map, by fragging enemies, skulls appear in this generator. The players must collect their enemies skulls and bring them to the base in order to score. Overload has both teams bases spawn a crystal, the players of each team must travel to the enemy base and destroy this crystal in order to win. Elimination is a team based mode where players must frag all of their enemies in a Last Man Standing match of sorts. The team with the highest amount of win the match. CTF Elimination, as its name implies, is a mix of Capture The Flag, not only the teams score by fragging all of the enemy teams players, but they also can win rounds by capturing their flags. Last Man Standing is a variation of Elimination where all of the players start with a finite amount of lives
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Arena (band)
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Arena are a British neo-progressive rock musical group founded in 1995. The bands style ranges from symphonic to hard rock, arena was founded in 1995 by Clive Nolan keyboardist of Pendragon and Shadowland, and Mick Pointer, the original drummer of Marillion, his tenure lasting from 1979 until 1983. The other founding members of the band were guitarist Keith More, vocalist John Carson, Orsi was replaced by John Jowitt in the bands inaugural year, whilst Carson and More left the band in 1996 and 1997, and were replaced by Paul Wrightson and John Mitchell respectively. Both Jowitt and Wrightson left the band in 1998, to be replaced by Ian Salmon and Rob Sowden and this lineup came to an end with Paul Manzi replacing Sowden in 2010. In 2011, Jowitt rejoined the band to replace the departing Salmon, leaving again in 2014, most of the bands lyrics are written by Nolan, though Pointer contributed lyrics to Sirens and other tracks on the first two albums. Musically the bands style ranges from symphonic to hard rock, some of the bands recent albums have a similar sound to Nolans earlier band, Shadowland. Allmusic called them one of the dominant neo-prog groups of the 1990s, songs from the Lions Cage Pride The Visitor Immortal
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Al Hirt
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Alois Maxwell Al Hirt was an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his recordings of Java and the accompanying album Honey in the Horn. His nicknames included Jumbo and The Round Mound of Sound, Hirt was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in November 2009. Hirt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of a police officer, at the age of six, he was given his first trumpet, which had been purchased at a local pawnshop. He would play in the Junior Police Band with the children of Alcide Nunez, during this time, he was hired to play at the local horse racing track, beginning a six-decade connection to the sport. In 1940, Hirt went to Cincinnati, Ohio, to study at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with Dr. Frank Simon. After a stint as a bugler in the United States Army during World War II, Hirt performed with various swing big bands, including those of Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, in 1950, Hirt became first trumpet and featured soloist with Horace Heidts Orchestra. After spending several years on the road with Heidt, Hirt returned to New Orleans working with various Dixieland groups, Hirts virtuoso dexterity and fine tone on his instrument soon attracted the attention of major record labels and he signed with RCA Victor. Hirt posted twenty-two albums on the Billboard charts in the 1950s and 1960s, both Honey in the Horn and Java sold over one million copies, and were awarded gold discs. Hirt was chosen to record the theme for the 1960s TV show The Green Hornet. Thematically reminiscent of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakovs Flight of the Bumblebee, it showcased Hirts technical prowess, the recording again gained public attention in 2003 when it was used in the film Kill Bill. From the mid-1950s to early 1960s, Hirt and his band played nightly at Dans Pier 600 at the corner of St. Louis, the club was owned by his business manager, Dan Levy, Sr. In 1962 Hirt opened his own club on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter and he also became a minority owner in the NFL expansion New Orleans Saints in 1967. Covering an eclectic variety of popular, standard and show tunes, it featured a big-band supplemented by timpani, French horns and he also appeared opposite Troy Donahue and Suzanne Pleshette in the 1962 motion picture, Rome Adventure. In 1965, he hosted the television variety series Fanfare, which aired on CBS as a summer replacement for Jackie Gleason. Hirt starred along with the University of Arizona marching band at the first Super Bowl halftime show in 1967, on February 8,1970, while performing in a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Hirt was injured while riding on a float. It is popularly believed that he was struck in the mouth by a piece of concrete or brick. Factual documentation of the details of the incident is sparse, consisting primarily of claims made by Hirt after the incident, whatever the actual cause of his injuries, Hirt underwent surgery and made a return to the club scene
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Tina Arena
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Filippina Lydia Tina Arena AM is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, musical theatre actress, and record producer. She is one of Australias highest selling female artists who, as of July 2014, has sold over 10 million records worldwide. Arena is an artist with the range of a soprano and is multilingual, she sings live and records in English, Italian and French. In April 2013 she was voted Australias all-time greatest female singer and third-greatest singer overall in a poll conducted by music journalist, Cameron Adams. Arena has earned several international and national awards, including seven ARIA Awards, in October 2013, Arena released her first English album of original material in eleven years, titled Reset. In the same month, Arena published her first autobiography, titled Now I Can Dance, also in 2013, Arena participated in the 13th Australian series of Dancing with the Stars, reaching third place behind Cosentino and Rhiannon Fish, respectively. From 28 September 2015, Tina Arena can be heard hosting shows on SmoothFM Radio Stations from 4,00 pm every Saturday on Sydneys SmoothFM93.5 and on Melbournes SmoothFM91.5. In October 2015, Arena released her 11th studio album, Eleven which became her seventh Top 10 album in Australia by debuting at No.2 on the ARIA album chart. In November 2015, Arena was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame at the 2015 ARIA Awards ceremony. On 27 April 2016, the Governor-General of Australia, Sir Peter Cosgrove, Arena was born to Giuseppe Joe Arena and Francesca Franca Catalfamo, Sicilian immigrants, in Melbourne on 1 November 1967. Giuseppe was a worker in Sicily and then a cane cutter in Cairns in 1955. By the following year he was a labourer in Melbourne and later worked for Victorian Railways, Arena grew up in Moonee Ponds with two sisters, Nancy and Silvana, her family calls her Pina which provided her stage name, Tina. For secondary schooling she attended St. Columbas College, Essendon from 1980 and she later recalled her upbringing It was a very Italian household, it was a very traditional household. There was a lot of love but there was a lot of discipline, and there was no room for pretentiousness. As a child Arena listened to Spanish, Italian and French songs that were in her familys record collection and she received singing lessons from Voila Ritchie who recommended her to appear on a TV talent quest and variety show, Young Talent Time. Initially appearing as a contestant Arena became Tiny Tina, a member of the shows Young Talent Team in 1976. For her first appearance she sang ABBAs Ring Ring, as a member of the team Arena performed cover versions of popular tracks and in 1977 released a split album, Tiny Tina and Little John, alternating tracks with fellow team member, John Bowles. While with the TV series she appeared in TV specials, at shopping centres or tourist venues and they both have a really professional attitude
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Arena football
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Arena football is a variety of indoor gridiron football played by the Arena Football League and China Arena Football League. It used to be a game but the patent expired in 2007. The game is played indoors on a field than American or Canadian outdoor football, resulting in a faster. The sport was invented in 1981, and patented in 1987, by James F. Foster, Jr. a former executive of the National Football League and the United States Football League. Though not the only variant of indoor American football, it is the most widely known, and the one on which most other forms of modern indoor football are at least partially based. As a key part of plan, while residing in the Chicago area, he tested the game concept through several closed door practice sessions in late 1985. After fine tuning the rules, he secured additional operating capital to play several test games in the MetroCentre in April 1986. On June 19,1987, the Pittsburgh Gladiators hosted the Washington Commandos in the first league game after a training camp for all four charter teams in Wheaton. AFL football operations and training was overseen by veteran college and pro head coach, Mouse Davis, the other two 1987 teams were the Chicago Bruisers and the Denver Dynamite. As the AFL grew into a league with close to 20 teams, it defined itself as a major market pro sports product. The growth and establishment of the AFL as a major market league spawned a developmental league that Foster also helped co-found, a minor league called Arena Football 2, in 2000. The league was set up to operate in medium size markets around the U. S. where it has enjoyed growth under the guidance of af2 President, other people have started their own indoor football minor leagues. Arena football is played indoors, in arenas usually designed for either basketball or ice hockey teams. The field is the width and length as a standard NHL hockey rink. The scrimmage area is 50 yards long, and each end zone is approximately eight yards deep, depending on the venue in which a game is being played, the end zones may be rectangular or, where necessary because of the building design, rounded. Each sideline has a heavily padded barrier, with the padding placed over the hockey dasher boards, the goalpost uprights are 9 feet wide, and the crossbar is 15 feet above the playing surface. Taut rebound nets on either side of the posts bounce any missed field goals back into the field of play, the ball is live when rebounding off these nets or their support apparatus. The entire goalframe and goalside rebound net system is suspended on cables from the rafters, the bottom of the two goalside rebound nets are 8 feet off the playing surface
