niflrevolution.com - Greensboro Revolution Football

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Greensboro's new football team called "Revolution"

Anthony Pewonski hopes he's found a way to do something two other franchises could not do, keep professional sports in the Greensboro Coliseum. Pewonski's Greensboro Revolution will play in the National Indoor Football League. The season kicks off in March with 26 teams, including teams in Charlotte and Fayetteville. Tickets range between $5 and $35. The franchise hopes it can do better the the old Prowlers franchise or hockey's Generals by keeping within their budget and keeping staff busy in the community in the off-season as well as in-season.


I am personally glad this is returning. I think it's a big part of helping keep the "young professional" crowd in Greensboro.

I also like it because I get to help on the field during the games. It's a blast! Hopefully they'll stick around longer than the Prowlers and Generals.

AP

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The Greensboro Revolution of the National Indoor Football League is one of several league franchises owned by Florida businessman Anthony Pewonski, who is apparently in the middle of some controversy.

Players and employees of three of Pewonski's four N-I-F-L teams claim he still owes them money from last season. And officials at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida, threatened to lock out a Pewonski-owned team last year over a bounced rent check.

Among the former Pewonski employees who says he's owed money is Sam Smalls, a linebacker who lives in Winston-Salem and played last year for the Kissimmee Kreatures in Florida. Smalls says he's owed about 12-hundred dollars.

The coliseum has been without a professional tenant since 2004, when the facility managed the Greensboro Generals hockey team, which folded after that season.


I'm not even going to comment on this one...

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Ed,

I usually enjoy your columns, but not this time. I will concede that Greensboro does have a bad history with minor league sports franchises.

Your article says "we're a minor-league sports town with major-league dreams". Well if we want to jump from the minors to the majors, just like an aspiring big-time athlete, we're going to have to put forth some effort. Greensboro needs more young professionals. Young professional like football and want something to do during the cold months after the Superbowl. ACC is great, but there is room to enjoy some live football.

We have bad sports attitudes, and you're an enabler of this attitude. What the Prowlers and Generals needed was some approval. We needed sports writers and "influencers" to give some props to the teams so those who were unsure what to think go out and see a game. Rarely did you even acknowledge they existed let alone give a positive statement about them. Go to a couple games. Write what you see. But don't only criticize from behind your monitor.

Don't be afraid to let Greensboro be more diverse and fun. There will be plenty of other dreams to hold down.

Matt

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Ed,

I usually enjoy your columns, but not this time. I will concede that Greensboro does have a bad history with minor league sports franchises.

Your article says "we're a minor-league sports town with major-league dreams". Well if we want to jump from the minors to the majors, just like an aspiring big-time athlete, we're going to have to put forth some effort. Greensboro needs more young professionals. Young professional like football and want something to do during the cold months after the Superbowl. ACC is great, but there is room to enjoy some live football.

We have bad sports attitudes, and you're an enabler of this attitude. What the Prowlers and Generals needed was some approval. We needed sports writers and "influencers" to give some props to the teams so those who were unsure what to think go out and see a game. Rarely did you even acknowledge they existed let alone give a positive statement about them. Go to a couple games. Write what you see. But don't only criticize from behind your monitor.

Don't be afraid to let Greensboro be more diverse and fun. There will be plenty of other dreams to hold down.

Matt

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And you pulled a big no-no and only printed the negatives in the article. You left out all the (small quantity of) positives about how the finances are being handled.


Not done intentionally, just put the most important information, so that it would fit in the RSS feed.