KISS bringing professional football to Los Angeles

Los Angeles football fans have been without a professional football team to root for in years, but one is finally coming, although it’s not a National Football League franchise. Instead, with the help of rock band KISS, LA is getting an Arena Football League team.

According to ESPN, the AFL announced on Thursday that an expansion franchise is coming to LA and will be owned by a group that includes KISS members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. The team will be called the LA KISS and will use the group’s iconic logo for its uniforms.

“The whole idea of an alternative to what has perhaps become a corporate sport is very intriguing, and resonates with us,” Simmons told USA Today. “We’ve always tried to be a band that relates to everybody, and the AFL is built on that whole premise.”

In a statement, Simmons even promised that going to a game will be like going to “a live KISS show, with thrilling, heart-pounding action.”

The LA KISS will play at the Honda Center in Anaheim starting in March. Season tickets cost just $99 and the group will throw in free concert tickets.

“We wouldn’t put LA KISS on a football helmet if we didn’t believe we could kick it out of the park,” Stanley added.

Los Angeles hasn’t had a professional football team since the previous AFL franchise folded in 2009, when the AFL cancelled a season. The city previously had two NFL teams - the Raiders and Rams - but both left the city in 1994.

KISS has also signed on to perform the halftime show at the ArenaBowl XXVI in Orlando Saturday.

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