Jim Foster is the founder of the Arena Football League in 1987. He is also a former NFL and USFLexecutive and was later the principal owner of the Iowa Barnstormers. The Arena Football League (AFL) (not to be confused with The Australian Football League) was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. ... See also: 1986 in sports, other events of 1987, 1988 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Bill Elliott won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Dale Earnhardt CART Racing - Bobby Rahal won the season championship Indianapolis 500 - Al Unser, Sr. ... NFL logo For other uses of the abbreviation NFL, see NFL (disambiguation). ... The United States Football League was a professional American football league that played three seasons between 1983 and 1985, in the process presenting the rival National Football League with its greatest competitor since the 1960s version of the American Football League. ... The New York Dragons are an Arena Football League team. ...
He is said to have derived the basic concept of Arena football while watching a game of indoor soccer being played at Madison Square Garden—and to have drawn it out on a napkin. In 1990, Foster was granted a patent on the game of Arena football and the equipment unique to it, particularly the end zone rebound nets, meaning that other indoor football leagues not affiliated with the Arena organization must play by at least somewhat different rules than the ones the AFL uses. Arena football is a sport invented by Jim Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League. ... An indoor soccer game in Mexico. ... Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. ... See also: 1989 in sports, other events of 1990, 1991 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Derrike Cope won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Dale Earnhardt CART Racing - Al Unser, Jr. ... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee (the inventor or assignee) for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which... Indoor football is a variation of American football with rules modified to make it suitable for play within basketball gymnasiums and, particularly, ice hockey arenas. ...
Jim brought a large drum set to the Carleton College 2001 Mid-Winter Dance.
The CTV15 crew caught Jim in action on stage during the videotaping of a concert at Concordia Academy.
Jim and Glen had pre-loaded their instruments' bells with the gloves, rubber-banded in place, and when they sustained the low B-flat at the end of the march, there was no place for the air to go but into the gloves, inflating them and waving at the audience.
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