Professional football will be affecting down in West Palm Beach this bounce for the actual aboriginal time, giving Palm Beach County association and visitors acceptable acumen to cheer. Rita Johnson, admiral of Palm Beach Media Associates, appear today that a new able calm football team, the West Palm Beach Phantoms, has been added to the National Indoor Football League. The new authorization will play its home amateur at the South Florida Fairgrounds Expo Center and bang off the division in March.
West Palm Beach, FL -- Professional football will be affecting down in West Palm Beach this bounce for the actual aboriginal time, giving Palm Beach County association and visitors acceptable acumen to cheer. Rita Johnson, admiral of Palm Beach Media Associates, appear today that a new able calm football team, the West Palm Beach Phantoms, has been added to the National Indoor Football League. The new authorization will play its home amateur at the South Florida Fairgrounds Expo Center and bang off the division in March.
Indoor football is one of the fastest growing able sports in the country. Its absolute football played on an calm accommodation the admeasurement of a hockey amphitheatre with eight players per side. A bedlam bank is all that separates the admirers from the players. Footballs that go into the stands during approved play become souvenirs of the admirers and, on average, 40-50 footballs ability the stands every game. The NIFL appearance of calm football is actual agnate to the alfresco bold in that players do not play both breach and defense. Consequently, they are able to bigger advance their abilities at their called position. Unlike the alfresco bold there is no punting. The amateur are about high-scoring and very, actual fast!
While the NIFL owns 25% of the Phantoms, Michael Lind, a adept South Florida business man, is the majority owner. Were traveling to do a best job at bringing able football to West Palm Beach, says Lind. I see admirers from Miami through Vero Beach advancing to allotment the excitement, authoritative the Phantoms a abundant asset to our association as able-bodied as a new allure for visitors.
Lind said he’ll be sending tapes of the Phantom players to the NFL every week. This aggregation will accessible up opportunities for abounding accomplished kids who ability contrarily get overlooked. In fact, he adds, several of today’s NFL players started in NIFL leagues.
Ray Berger, the new drillmaster for the team, has been apprenticeship football in Palm Beach County for twenty years and was Head Coach at Lantana’s Santaluces High School from 1994 through 2002. I’m accustomed that Mike Lind chose me to drillmaster the Phantoms, says Berger. I’m actual aflame about this aggregation and accepting in a position to advertise the amazing football aptitude we accept in Palm Beach County.
West Palm Beach ambassador Lois Frankel is aswell agog about the new NIFL team. I ambition to acceptable the Phantoms to our across and attending advanced to able football in our aback yard, she says.
The Phantoms will be application Athletes Advantage in Wellington as their training facility. Athletes Advantage will aswell handle all aggregation sports anesthetic as able-bodied as the accessible try-out. Try-Out Coordinator, Sean Benevides calls the NIFL an agitative casting of football. I’m analytic advanced to alive with them, he says, and seeing the Phantoms accompany home a Championship to West Palm Beach.
The NIFL was launched in 2001 with 18 franchises above the United States. The aboriginal alliance bold was played in Medford, Oregon. This season, with the accession of the West Palm Beach Phantoms, the alliance has developed to 25 teams including several in Florida. Among them are the Miami Morays, Jacksonville Stallions, Kissimmee Kreatures and the Daytona Beach Hawgs.
The National Football League officiating administration entered into a affiliation with NIFL and is complex in the recruiting, training and appraisal of the NIFL officials. Dan Blum, aforetime the NIFL administrator of officials, was answer to administrator of operation for the league.
Kris Pursell, carnality admiral of Expo development at the South Florida Fairgrounds, says the Expo Center is accessible to acceptable the Phantoms home. Were actual appreciative to be the area for the barrage of this new team, she notes. I attending advanced to a continued appellation accord with them.
Owner Lind says admission prices for the amateur will be kept affordable and division admission bales will be available. The Expo Center, which is amid at 9067 Southern Boulevard in West Palm Beach, has a accommodation of 5000 seats. The agenda for the season, which runs from March through June, has not yet been released.
Numerous accumulated advocacy opportunities for the Phantoms will be available. For added advice acquaintance Palm Beach Media Associates at 561 241-4567 or 561-301-0122.
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