Sports
Over the years it has hosted NBDL basketball, with the former Huntsville Flight; UAH Chargers ice hockey (CHA); Oakwood University's Alumni Celebration, Huntsville Blast and Huntsville Channel Cats ice hockey, and Alabama Vipers arena football. Currently, it is the home of the Huntsville Havoc of the Southern Professional Hockey League and the Alabama Hammers of the Southern Indoor Football League among other events.
It was there that the UAH Chargers ice hockey team won two Division II hockey championships before their transition to Division I. On February 10, 2007, the Huntsville Havoc beat the Knoxville Ice Bears 7-6, in front of the largest crowd for a sporting event in the VBC's history, with 7,083 fans, in standing room only.
It was the site of the first-ever Total Nonstop Action Wrestling card, which featured in-ring cameos by Toby Keith and Sterling Marlin.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)