When delivered to San Francisco’s Cow Palace in the late winter of 1975, none of the Seattle Sounders seemed to know what they’d signed-up for.
“We were just a bunch of guys getting together and taking a trip down to California for a couple games,” recalls Ballan Campeau.
“We thought it was a preseason fitness thing,” David Gillett remembers. “We were clueless.”
So began Seattle’s first foray into the soccer/hockey hybrid now known as indoor or arena soccer, a game first concocted in Chicago during the Fifties. A generation later, during a pair of exhibitions at Philadelphia’s Spectrum featuring Moscow’s Red Army club, eyes were opened to commercial opportunities.
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