L.A.’s Arena Football Team: Avengers
It’s not the NFL, but professional football is back in Los Angeles.
The Arena Football League’s Los Angeles franchise unveiled its name, the Avengers, and logo Monday at a news conference next to the still-under-construction Staples Center, where the team will play its home games beginning in April 2000.
The logo is a blue-and-gold, futuristic-looking knight with a red outline. The team’s helmets will be red with the logo on it.
Los Angeles and New Orleans will be the the 16th and 17th teams in the Arena Football League, now in its 13th season.
Avenger owner and President Casey Wasserman, 24, plans to have a coach hired by the end of August. The Avengers can begin signing free agents Aug. 23 and there will be an expansion draft in November.
The Avengers are Los Angeles’ second team in the AFL. The Cobras began play in 1988 but eventually folded. This time, with football out of Los Angeles for almost six years, Wasserman expects a sellout crowd of more than 18,000 for next year’s home opener.
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