Talk:Newton Nite Hawks

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This article was nominated for deletion on 22 November 2009 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

Relevancy[edit]

I think this article is relevant for 2 reasons. First, Jim Foster, who started the team, later invented Arena Football. Also as the article states, the Nite Hawks and the Chicago Lions were the first professional teams to play in Europe. That in itself goes beyond just a local team and one local story. Both the "Associated Press" and "Stars and Stripes" had articles about the trip to Europe. Also the "Des Moines Register" rated the trip in their top 10 sports stories of 1977. Stan AllspachSonnyqb (talk) 03:31, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The article is relevant for the reasons listed above. Additionally, the team was also covered by the UPI, the Armed Forces Network, and appeared in news outlets throughout the United States (IL, TX, WA, AZ, NY, GA to name a few) during the European tour in summer of 1977. As stated in the article, this was a historical event in American football. This team and the Intercontinental Football League (Al Davis and Tex Schramm headed the NFL committee to put the IFL together along with Bob Kap) was the model for NFL Europe 15 years later. A review of Wikipedia yielded over 118 other teams and leagues in the category “Semi Professional Football”. The fact that the Nite Hawks were from a small town and made such a contribution to the game is what makes this entry worth of retention. (ORDFlyer (talk) 08:29, 24 November 2009 (UTC))[reply]

I want to be a friend to the nite hawks page....loved those days.......Mickey Koons Spieker —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.203.113.30 (talk) 13:20, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]