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A Tampa Bay Storm come the member franchise of the Arena Football League. Along using their traditional competition, a Orlando Predators, they part the Arena record for the hanker tenure by a franchise inside one market front yard. It is too a single one of a original quaternity franchises to stand operated around continuous being from either a formation of a league within 1987 until the present. A franchise was originally referred to as a Pittsburgh Gladiators, & were one of a original foursome AFL teams formed around 1987. A Gladiators participated within Arena Bowls We & Three, losing two. A team moved from either Pittsburgh to Tampa in 1991, with a team ingesting on the "Storm" nickname. A Las Vegas franchise has since taken up a "Gladiators" nickname (watch Las Vegas Gladiators), but by owning there is no link to the Pittsburgh franchise's history or even records. A Storm won a ArenaBowl in its first Tampa Bay year (1991) and use won 4 subsequent championships (1993, 1995, 1996, and 2003). As of 2005, the Storm has certified for the playoffs within each year of their Tampa Bay being. A team played in the previous Florida Suncoast Dome in St. Petersburg (now called Tropicana Field) from 1991-1996, becoming its first regular team sports tenant. Since 1997, the team has played its house games in the St. Pete Times Forum (previously the Ice Palace) which is located in Tampa. (The St. Petersburg Times newspaper currently owns the naming rights to the facility, which can cause some confusion as to its actual location.) A Storm compete in the Southern Section of the National Conference. It is coached by Tim Marcum, who is widely esteem a greatest coach within Arena history. In December 23, 2004, Sports Illustrated [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/pete_mcentegart/12/23/ten.spot/ wrote in its 'The 10 Spot' feature] that the AFL's players' union filed the greivance against the Storm. A cause: Seven of the Storm's players claimed that occasionally of the diamonds in their 2003 AFL championship rings were fake. Six of a 7 players got left a team when the 2003 year. A Storm acknowledged that a select few of the rings did, as a matter of fact, include three-dimensional zirconium instead of diamonds- and that different players standard greater numbers of diamonds in their rings according to their contributions that year.
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St. Petersburg Times Local newspaper coverage. Storm Surge Official fan club site with news, photos, and message board. Tampa Bay Storm Official team site with news, player profiles, schedule, statistics, photos, and ticket information. Tampa Bay Storm Arena Football Group Group site for the fans of the Tampa Bay Storm Arena Football team. News, pictures, and videos. Laura's Tampa Bay Storm Page Features photos taken at games from the stands. The Storm Shelter Provides historical information and articles about the team up through 1999. |
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