Currently the ownership group Chicago KICK LLC, which is spearheaded by Gamboa, is in the final stages of completing a lease agreement to secure a home game venue for the 2012-13 season and beyond. According to Gamboa, "although no official announcement can be made yet, it is safe to say the team will be participating in a professional indoor soccer league in the 2012-13 season". The team has announced that it will call Grand Sports Arena, in Hoffman Estates, IL the teams home base. All team offices, practices and tryouts, and exhibition matches will be housed there. There has been no official staff announcements yet, but Gamboa insures "this team will surprise everybody", and goes on to add "this will not be anything like the previous professional indoor franchises in Chicago". [Hopefully they are right about that] http://www.chicagokick.com/professional-indoor-soccer-is-back-in-chicago
Interestingly the leader of the ownership group stated that "although no official announcement can be made yet, it is safe to say the team will be participating in a professional indoor soccer league in the 2012-13 season". Notice he didn't say which league. That leaves open the possibilities of an MISL team playing at the Sears Centre, or a PASL team, possibly playing at the Grand Sports Center.
The Kick were on and off the MISL schedule last year. Then a Chicago team was on and off the PASL schedule. It's the Chicago way.
Their website does have the MISL banner at the top with links to all the team sites and USL site. That might be from before though
I was thinking that too, but it's odd they don't make one reference to the PASL. The top of the page has all MISL logos and the video is all MISL footage. This is just an assumption: I think they are trying to join the MISL (as they tried to last year, but didn't come in time) but the PASL is a "fall back" incase they aren't accepted.
Well if facilities say anything its going to be a PASL team. http://www.grandsportsarena.com/index.php?option=com_phocagallery&view=detail&catid=3:youth-legue-playoffs&id=95:dsc01013&tmpl=component&Itemid=194# but then again there was the twisters barn
They listed the Grand Sports Arena as their office and training facility .. They have not listed the actual location of games tho.
Can they get that name? The reason this incarnation of the Blast was originally Spirit was because Ed Hale owns the name Blast. Is there a similiar situation with the Sting?
Trademarks don't work that way unless you keep them up. Classic Ink (the same company that got in the brouhaha with the NASL's Tampa Bay team) owns the trademarks and right to put it on apparel. The Stern family's trademark on it has lapsed, and last time I spoke with them on this topic, they were not interested in pursuing it. It's been too long. Anyone would (I believe) have to go through Classic Ink (which can be done - for a price) if they wanted to call a Chicago soccer team the Sting and put the trademark on anything.
They have the trademark, but they (apparently) do sublicense it (and others) to other companies. If you see Throwbackmax.com, they have some (but not the Rowdies anymore, since the new team came to an agreement with them), other sites have some. Not everything you see with one of those logos is made directly by Classic Ink, but that company has the rights to those trademarks. And they were willing to pay lawyers a bunch of money to make sure the team didn't use the name and logos.
BBwavefan it was stated last year when the kick could not secure an arena the Usl/Misl stated that they would be a part of the 2013 season , you can also ask Tozer he told me at the arena the next team in the Centrial would be a chiago team , we all knew about the kick last year
That doesn't mean things haven't changed in the interim. The release at the time said "The Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) announced a revised schedule for the 2011-12 season today, removing Chicago after the expansion franchise was unable to secure a suitable venue within the necessary time frame. The 2011-12 MISL season will feature seven teams divided between two divisions, with Chicago set to join for 2012-13, subject to fulfillment of league requirements." To say they will definitively be a part of the MISL in the 2012-2013 season is like saying the Dallas Sidekicks are on hiatus, or that the Orlando Sharks will definitely be back because their website was still up.
here it is kenn n MISL Revises 2011-12 Schedule Due To Arena Problems With Chicago Kick Due to the inability of the Chicago Kick franchise to secure a deal for a home arena, the Major Indoor Soccer League announced the team will not join the league until the 2012-13 season, forcing the league to release a realignment of their schedule. The new schedule is available at http://misl.uslsoccer.com/MISLschedules/index_E.html. The league will now have seven teams competing this season -- the Baltimore Blast, Nofolk SharX, Rochester Lancers and Syracuse Silver Knights in the East Division and the defending champion Milwaukee Wave, the Missouri Comets and the Wichita Wings in the Central Division -- with each team playing a 24-game schedule. The playoff format will remain unchanged: the top two teams in each division will meet the weekend of March 9-11 for a two-game, home-and-home series, with a mini-game immediately after the second game, if a series is tied, with the division champions meeting March 16-18 in a similar two-game championship series, with the highest ranked team choosing which game they will host.
You're not understanding me. ( a ) I just quoted the actual league release which says, among other things, "subject to fulfillment of league requirements," and ( b ) That does not mean nothing has changed since then. Seriously, why can you not get this? Last September they said Chicago would be pushed back a year. Do you think that means there's no possible way they could be delayed again, or not meet league requirements, or decide to go to another league? Really? YOU have apparently copied and pasted from this blog (or this one), which is not official - the league never announced the name of the Chicago team, to my knowledge. Joey Josephs was free to interpret the release and write however he wanted. That doesn't mean it's gospel.