News: Orlando Sharks Pull Out for the 2009 season

What the hell does Philadelphia have to do with this?

 

Nothing wrong with a little banter back and forth but you two need to settle down and stop turning every thread into a Jerry Springer moment.

This go's to everyone, settle down with the personal jabs at each other.

 

Nothing like feeding the fire.

Orlando announcement is already in the newspaper with quotes from Rich Bradley. No staff being let go, focus on camps, go next year...they do mention economic problems (economy or them, I don't know).

 

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH i saw that Dave!

 

Dave...that's it! maybe it's HER!...i mean she WOULD know this stuff...hahhahahahha

 

those aren't necessarily mutually exclusive problems, but with plans to play in 09-10 there must be some light at the end of the tunnel in any case

 

right! maybe they can play in the "1 year hiatus" division with Harrisburg, Dallas, Wichita, Kansas City, and St. Louis

 

St. Louis would dominate that division.

 

why do the sharks have to suffer from other teams' pasts?

If you all want to live the "i'll believe it when I see it" life then have fun with that. I'd rather be hopeful and positive about the future.

 

Sorry...but Orlando will be another scorched market in the desert wasteland of indoor soccer....

what fan in their right mind would give them another chance when they folded after the first season?

 

Beyond the PASL-Pro nuts, everyone wants Orlando back, but history says NO (other than the Pittsburgh Spirit as I recall). So, lets go with the SPIRIT of Orlando.

 

Please catch up on the forums, I've already had this debate with others here.
and pay close attention to my remarks on using the word folded.

 

Then stop bringing up the same BS, your team has folded. Get over it.

 

Kansas City would be in the two-year hiatus division.

 

I thought the Thundercats were supposed to move to NC? Still waiting for them as well....

 

I agree we need that schedule..no more 24 or 48 hours please...give a specific time...and tomorrow is really unacceptable...will keep me up all night now..haha

 

hey maybe the Cleveland Force can join that league as well
They were the best!!!! We NEED them back!!

 

I wish I could share your hope. As a Kixx fan, I really want the NISL as a whole to be successful and (dare I dream) expand in the near future. I was also quite curious to see what Orlando's new lineup could do on the field. So this news is disappointing even to those of us who don't live in Florida. When I say it's probably time to retire your Sharks gear, it's not because I hate the team or the ownership. It's just that (as has been amply pointed out) indoor soccer teams are the deadbeat dads of the sports world. "We'll be back next year" always turns out to be an empty promise in this business. I'm sorry for your loss, but when you're ready to move past denial and onto anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, we're here to help. Most of us have suffered similar losses and understand your pain.

 

Does anyone actually know how many teams have come and gone since MISL (version 1) got going?

Actually, has there been a team that has actually come back from a hiatus? I think IIRC that Houston Hotshots of WISL played a year, then had a hiatus, then played another year, then took another hiatus and vanished off the face of the earth. If it wasn't Houston it could be another WISL team. But has any team really come back after a hiatus? I don't think you can count Monterrey. Two different owners and teams.

 

The Arizona Sandsharks took a year off, more or less. When Colangelo sold the club, the new owners claimed they didn't have enough time to get things moving so they said they would come back next season,97, and did... although they folded the club after that season.

 

livesoccernews..where are you?..it is after 12:00??????