031: Indoor Soccer’s Wichita Wings with Mike Romalis and Tim O’Bryhim
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English - October 09, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 85.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsSports History volleyball baseball basketball defunct football hockey nostalgia soccer sports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Wichita, Kansas natives Mike Romalis and Tim O’Bryhim (Make This Town Big: The Story of Roy Turner and the Wichita Wings) join host Tim Hanlon to talk about their current book – and upcoming documentary – focused on the improbable story of the Major Indoor Soccer League’s smallest-market (Nielsen-ranked #66) club that became the first major league professional sports team in Kansas history. The MISL’s Wichita Wings defied conventional logic, as world-class soccer players from places like England, Denmark, Argentina, and Ecuador enthralled jam-packed Kansas Coliseum crowds with a fiery brand of play that made them a perennial playoff contender and one of the league’s most successful franchises – replete with a veritable “Orange Army” of rabid fans that became the envy of their big-city rivals across the league.
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