Back To An Uncertain Future
The National Indoor Soccer League is now the Major Indoor Soccer League.
Sound familiar? It should.
This will be - if you’re multi-point scoring at home - the third outfit to call itself the MISL. The most recent two have lineage that gets intertwined, but it’s basically MISL 3.0. I’d question the wisdom of announcing the change 10 days before the season opens, but, whatever. It’s not like too many people knew they were opening in 10 days anyway.
If you’ve been reading for any length of time, you know that I love indoor soccer (I’m one of the few, the proud). I think it’s a great game. As a sport, not so much, only because the powers that be have managed to snipe amongst themselves and generally make incredibly stupid decisions because they can’t agree on a direction for indoor soccer.
And while “Major Indoor Soccer League” is the first and still best name for an indoor league, it’s just window-dressing at this point. Any indoor league, now or in the future, can’t be what the original MISL was. That ship has sailed. I’m not sure there is a future for this game.
Tags: indoor soccer, MISL, soccer, this again
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I too thought indoor soccer was dead, then Peter Wilt went back to Milwaukee…
November 5th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Well that didn’t take long to see changed. At this point, I’d like to see the MISL 3.0 sustain viable franchises, and MAYBE grow in a few areas (Dallas & Harrisburg for example). Still, it’s indoor soccer and I am looking forward to the 13th when the Blast start trying for title #7.