Spokane Shock Arena Football

The Spokane Shock Arena Football team was founded in 2005 by Spokane natives Brady Nelson and Adam Nebeker and began play on March 30th, 2006 as a member of the Arena Football 2 League. The Shock play their home games in downtown Spokane at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena in front of the 9th Man called Deaf Valley.The Shock put together a cinderella inaugural season in 2006, posting a 14–2 regular-season record and a first-place finish in the National Conference Western Division. During the af2 playoffs, the Shock defeated the Bakersfield Blitz and the Arkansas Twisters en route to winning the af2 National Conference championship and a berth in ArenaCup VII against the Green Bay Blizzard in San Juan, Puerto Rico. On August 26, the Shock defeated the Blizzard by a score of 57–34 to win ArenaCup VII. The Spokane Shock became the first expansion team in af2 history to advance to, and win, the ArenaCup. The Shock led the league in attendance with an average of 10,313 fans per home game.The Shock won division titles in all four seasons of af2 and the ArenaCup Championship in 2006 and 2009 before they joined the Arena Football League (AFL) in its 2010 relaunch. The Shock won ArenaBowl XXIII in their first season, making them the first arena football franchise to win both the ArenaCup and the ArenaBowl. The Shock defeated the Tampa Bay Storm 69–57 In front of an Arena Bowl record crowd of 11,017.On July 9, 2011 the Spokane Shock made history by playing the first ever “Indoor Football” game outdoors. The Shock set the record for the largest crowd to witness an arena football game at the Joe Albi Stadium Summer Classic. 16,233 saw the Shock defeat the Utah Blaze 76-49.The Shock hold a Franchise winning percentage of 73% including a regular season record of 134 - 50 as well as playoff record of 14-6.Brady Nelson and his partners sold the Spokane Shock to a Seattle businessman named Nader Naini, who subsequently changed the team name and rebranded the team as the Sp