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Professional Indoor Football Comes to West Palm

Professional indoor football is progressively become more and more popular over the year. The professional leagues that exist these days are able to attract a decent number of spectators to every game. West Palm Beach is latest city to be awarded with a professional team. Professional football will be touching down in West Palm Beach this spring for the very first time, giving Palm Beach County residents and visitors good reason to cheer.

Indoor football is one of the fastest growing professional sports in the country. Its real football played on an indoor turf the size of a hockey rink with eight players per side. A padded wall is all that separates the fans from the players. Footballs that go into the stands during regular play become souvenirs of the fans and, on average, 40-50 footballs reach the stands every game.

Rita Johnson, president of Palm Beach Media Associates, announced today that a new professional indoor football team, the West Palm Beach Phantoms, has been added to the National Indoor Football League. The new franchise will play its home games at the South Florida Fairgrounds Expo Center and kick off the season in March.