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The New York Dragons are an Arena Football League team. They are based in suburban Uniondale, New York at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, also home to the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League. The team relocated to Long Island for the 2001 season. They had been based in Des Moines, Iowa from 1995 to 2000, as the Iowa Barnstormers. The team had been successful in Iowa, but the league wanted a larger market, and the New York market is considered to be critical for all sports leagues attempting to be "major", so the league encouraged the move despite two failed past attempts in New York, the New York Knights ( 1988) and the New York CityHawks ( 1997- 1998), both of which played at Madison Square GardenMadison Square Garden has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. The first two were located at Madison Square, thus the name. Subsequently a new 20,000-seat Garden was built at 50th Street and 8th Avenue, and the current Garden is s in ManhattanFor other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation . Manhattan is the name of an island alongside the lower Hudson River and also of one of the five boroughs that form the City of New York. The borough is coterminous with New York County and includes the Islan. The Arena organization did award an AF2AF2 is the name of the Arena Football League's minor league, which started play in 2000. The rules are the same as for the parent league. When the parent league moved its season opening to February to accommodate a television contract with the National Br franchise to Iowa for the 2001 season also called the Barnstormers, but that team folded after the 2001 season. The Barnstormers were noted for their unique uniforms, which in keeping with the aviation theme included the depiction of goggles on the helmets, wings on the shoulders of the jerseys, and propellers on the pants legs. The primary figure in the original Iowa organization was Jim FosterJim Foster was the founder of the Arena Football League in 1987. He is also a former NFL and USFL executive. He later was the princpal owner of the Iowa Barnstormers. He is said to have derived the basic concept of Arena Football while watching a game of, the originator of Arena Football.
Aside from the league's desire to re-enter the New York market, another major reason cited for the team's relocation was the inadequacy of their Des Moines venue, the Iowa Veterans Memorial Auditorium, also known as "The Barn". All seating in this venue was located directly along the sidelines as is typical of high schoolHigh school or secondary school is the last segment of compulsory education in Hong Kong, United States, Australia, Canada, China, Korea and Japan. It provides a secondary education. Hong Kong Secondary education in Hong Kong is largely based on the Briti sports venues. The Barnstormers organization constantly lobbied for the construction of a better facility during their time in Des Moines, to no avail. However, the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum where they relocated is generally regarded as one of the most marginal venues currently in use in major American professional sports and is often proposed for replacement, so the improvement of the situation with regards to a venue has been marginal at best, at least to this point. In late SeptemberSeptember is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 30 days. The name comes from the Latin septem for " seven" September was originally the seventh month of the year, before January and February were inserted. In Greek civilization, S 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co, the ownership of the New York Islanders announced an ambitious project to rennovate the Coliseum and surround it with housing units and construct an adjacent tower, at a total cost of over $200,000,000.
The New York Dragons currently compete in the Eastern Division of the National Conference.
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