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Philadelphia Wings
The Philadelphia Wings is a name of a professional league of Lacrosse, which is a member of the National Lacrosse League. Their usually play their home games at the Wachovia Center in the city of Philadelphia.

Actually the Wings were formed as one of the original four teams in the Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League, which had begun to play in the year of 1987.

The league had been renamed to the Major Indoor Lacrosse League in the year of 1989, which was later changed to National Lacrosse League in the year of 1998.They have also formed record by being the only franchise, having the chance to play all of its 21 seasons in the same city.

The Wings have also the record of being the biggest record holders in the combined league history with 6 total: 4 North American Cups in the MILL era and 2 Champion's Cup since the formation of the NLL.

The Philadelphia Wings are among those original franchises in the Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League, joining the New Jersey Saints, Washington Wave, and Baltimore Thunder in the premiere season.

Wings had not got the instant kind of success and had faced the defeat by being 3-3 and 3-5 in the first two regular seasons with two playoff losses.

They were able to capture the attention of almost 12,000 fans to their three 1987 regular season games, and a little over such level in the very next year.

The Wings had got their share of victory in the year of 1989 with a first place 6-2 campaign, ending with their first of a league record 6 titles with an 11-10 win over New York at the Spectrum.

The Wings have later formed the history by repeating the season success with another 6-2 regular season. Later they had the championship win in Worcester over the New England Blazers.

The 1991 saw a 5-5 left, which had placed the Wings in third place in the American Division, in fact only 1 game behind the division winners Baltimore and out of the playoffs for the first time in their history.

There were such legendary stars in the team like Mike French, Hall of Fame college player at Cornell and a current team executive; John Grant Sr., father of current NLL star John Grant Jr.; Syracuse Hall of Famer Brad Kotz; long time Wings coach, Tony Resch; and long time NLL player and coach John Tucker. The league had a change in the name in 1998, but the Wings didn?t rise up to success at once.

They had lost the star player named Gary Gait to the Baltimore Thunder, but they kept on alive their spirit and could claim their 4th regular season title in 5 years at 9-3.

Later the team was paired up with its great rival Bandits in the semifinal round, and the Wings dispatched the Bandits just as they had in the previous semifinal match up.

Actually the year of 1999, really ended the supremacy of the Bandits, as the Bandits had to start to rebuild and fell to a 4-8 mark, missing the postseason.

The success story went on and the year of 2006, saw a draft, which proved to be very useful and other group of great player like Geoff Snider, Ian Llord, and Athan Iannucci, Kyle Wailes and others were added.

The 2008 season has seen the emergence of two new Wings superstars, second year players Athan Iannucci and Geoff Snider.