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How I became a Solar Bears fan

My buddy, whose name happens to be Sparks, got married the day that the IHL Solar Bears won the Turner Cup. He asked me to be his best man about a year before the wedding. When I told him that I would be honored to be a part of it, in the same breath, I told him that if there was a playoff game that night, I was going to the game.

Sparks had introduced me to the Solar Bears not long after I moved to Orlando in the spring of 1997. He’d been a Season Ticket Holder for the Bears’ first two seasons, but had given them up because his fiancee wasn’t able to attend all of the games with him.