Ed Tepper

Ed Tepper saw the potential indoor soccer had as a viable sport after he took in an exhibition match at the Spectrum in 1974 between the Philadelphia Atoms and Moscow Red Army. That game featured three 20-minute periods and 4’x16′ goals, but Tepper, along with Earl Foreman, set out to turn a demonstration sport into a professional league and in 1978 they launched the MISL. Tepper would go on to own the New Jersey Rockets and later launched the successful Philadelphia Kixx franchise.