SPHL Arenas

[@msemisch]

Fun fact: There used to be a hockey team in Macon called the Macon Whoopee.

[@ChrisLawrenceRebel]

One of the joys of living in Macon is all the "Macon" puns.

[@barbarian92]

@@ChrisLawrenceRebelIf I’m not mistaken, there’s a minor league baseball team there called the Macon Bacon

[@ChrisLawrenceRebel]

@@barbarian92 technically they're a "summer wood-bat collegiate baseball team." They play at the stadium that was used for filming scenes in 42 and Trouble With The Curve.

[@barbarian92]

@@ChrisLawrenceRebel Ah right, that's what I was thinking of. Still, that's one heck of a team name!

[@eromitlabhitw]

Let's not forget the successor team in Macon post-Whoopee, the Macon Trax.

[@taylorruckner5976]

Yes! Love seeing my Huntsville Havoc being featured!!!

[@crveech]

Evansville is my hometown. Thanks for showing love to Ford Center.

[@JennyTheSleepyPanda]

Havoc fan here! Thanks for this video, the Propst Arena is pretty big, but definetly fun to visit! (And for Pelham, it's "Pel-am", but your pronouication for it was quite funny!)

[@brianhurt8694]

FYI - the Evansville Thunderbolts logo, that you see on the ice, is the current logo. The one, that is in the top right corner of the video, is the old logo. Thank you for choosing the Ford Center as your favorite!

[@barbarian92]

I love how cavernous Macon’s arena is. Always have been a sucker for barns like that!

[@ExileOnDaytonStreet]

That “remains Tbilisi” joke was fantastic

[@timdownie2985]

Love the shout out for Geography Now.

[@jordankennerknecht4929]

I live in Roanoke and the Berglund Center aka The Berg aka The Dawg House is solid arena. The Berg is crazy once we the fans start going wild. 😜 Let’s Go Dawgs! Also the Berg can attract a big crowd. There is a couple times the past 2 years that the Dawgs have reached over 6,000 and 7,000 plus capacity a couple times

[@shsav2012]

I thought dawg house referred tonWillaim Byrd High School.

[@jordankennerknecht4929]

@@shsav2012 lol, nah. During last years postseason the Railyard Dawgs just made an intro and at the end they say welcome to the Dawg House. Us fans have been calling it the dawg house only for a while. We mostly say the Berg.

[@shsav2012]

@@jordankennerknecht4929 OK never really paid attention to the team or the SPHL in general when I lived in Roanoke. Plus with. Byrd high having the mascot of the terriers, I was forgetting what they may have referenced to some of the high school sports facilities on that campus

[@jordankennerknecht4929]

@@shsav2012 since its October hockey is right around the corner. You gotta check out a RYD game and see how much they have grown here in Roanoke. We fans love our Dawgs.

[@Robertschildberg]

People in the quad city’s just call it the mark

[@adriansims1596]

I've been inside the Macon Coliseum several times. Never for a hockey game though.

[@coryshannon3815]

To my knowledge, the arena in Moline, IL was originally called the "MARK of the Quad Cities", so I get them keeping it in the current name of the arena. Mark must have been an important dude.😂

[@brianhurt8694]

Go Thunderbolts! #FillTheFord #ClogTheJohn

[@SportsAndCooking-n5g]

USHL NEXT???

[@samanthamiller5226]

Then AHL

[@RobJaskula]

Now this is a fun and eclectic bunch!

[@Christian-fn6yu]

I've been to plenty of games at the Knoxville Civic Center and I can definitely confirm there are some seats you cannot see the ice still a great atmosphere though I'll be racing my Dachshund at the Dachshund race this year

[@Ricsamg]

Macon! Must have been where I,Tonya was filmed. I recognized that ceiling immediately

[@caghockey]

FPHL next? (Although one arena is being built)

[@ChrisLawrenceRebel]

The Macon Mayhem aren't called the Macon Bacon because there's already a baseball team called the Macon Bacon.

[@rubyyoda]

Macon is sure home of weird sport teams names

[@joshebbert2822]

Carver Arena (Peoria Civic Center) has hosted hockey ever since it opened. The Rivermen were originally called the Peoria Prancers. They changed to Rivermen after two seasons as the Prancers. The Rivermen have also played in four different leagues (IHL, ECHL, AHL, and now SPHL) and are probably the only minor league hockey team to win championships at all three levels.

[@michaelbuckley1951]

@@joshebbert2822 Prancers doesn't exactly strike fear into the heart of your opponent

[@matt8630]

Do the FPHL next!!!!!

[@albertmiller2electricbooga897]

Real ones remember Huntsville Havoc's Awful Nite

[@logankerr8090]

please do BCHL !

[@kp8295]

Can you make a video of the Western Hockey League (WHL) arenas next?

[@Ianmccor]

Now you need to do summer collegiate baseball leagues such as the Coastal Plain League, where you can actually do a team called the Macon Bacon. Also once went to Crown Coliseum that saw a game with only one period played followed by a shootout to decide the game because the arena only has one Zamboni which didn't work to fix up the ice between periods.

[@Fred_JMZ]

Need to do an IFL (Indoor Football Leauge) arenas video

[@vamoscruceros]

I'm wondering how much longer the Pensacola Bay Center will stand now that Mobile, 60 miles down the road, is replacing the Mobile Civic Center.

[@dftns19]

I am a hockey fan living in the United States and I had never even heard of the SPHL

[@BlkSox1919]

We in Roanoke had never heard of it till we got a team.

[@CrescentCitySweaters]

That’s on you man, it’s been a thing for over a decade, and pretty much all of the cities where there are currently teams have had pro hockey there for far longer. The most historic imo would be the Peoria Rivermen, who were previously the AHL affiliate of the Blues or the Birmingham Bulls who are a callback to the WHA and ECHL franchises of that name

[@henryca03]

​@@CrescentCitySweatersThe SPHL has existed for two decades actually. Fayetteville, Huntsville, and Knoxville have been around since the league's formation, although Knoxville is the only one among the three to play every season, because of the global cooties.

[@gregsells8549]

On videos of the Georgia high school basketball tournament at the GPB Sports channel, I saw the Macon Coliseum has replaced its scoreboard with a videoboard at a more sensible level.

[@w.j.m8731]

Macon bacon is the name of the baseball team in Macon Shout out one of the most underappreciated and lovely cities in Georgia Also go bears

[@swiftfishin5680]

Huntsville Havoc used to be called Huntsville Channel cats. As in channel catfish.

[@jonathanwoods3136]

Have you done college hockey yet? Some really cool venues on that side of the sport as well

[@vamoscruceros]

No, the people of Alabama are not conistent with their pronunciations of "ham".

[@Apocalypse3434]

I'm in north AL and I've always heard it pronounced PELL-UHM

[@danimalman3]

Can you do arenas/stadiums of alaska?

[@TheWideWorldofStadiums]

I'll look into it.

[@henryca03]

SPHL has been an orphaned initialism since 2023.

[@spectacular_clyde259]

You should do WHL next

[@Buckets676]

You should do the stadiums of Memphis

[@EricLWatkins]

The Evansville Ford Center is impressive as hell. They even have those rink projectors for on-ice video now. Some NHL arenas still don't have that. I'm looking at you, Enterprise Center, with your lame-ass stationary images projected onto the ice. lol

[@semipenguin]

Technically, everything South of Interstate 70, is part of the South. So Evansville is part of the South.

[@ExileOnDaytonStreet]

Bring back the UAH Chargers!

[@BamiamBamiam]

Bradley has ACHA hockey team

[@neilwhitaker6284]

Railyard Dogs have the best mascot in the league! These arenas are a bit underwhelming but the joke about taxslayer69 was not!!!

[@JureG41]

Can you do OHL arenas?

[@Thebulldogschannel648-7]

Can you do stadiums of the nswrl

[@rabbitgoalhorns]

Please do FPHL!!!

[@Thrive910]

It’s pronounce Pelum.. also, let’s go Havoc!!

[@JonathanMoreno15]

Bazinga 1:19

[@bizmen81]

Yea, club hockey isn't D1 college hockey

[@neilhinkle2462]

Those end caps for the ice bears are not the greatest. You can't see your side of the ice goal when you sit there

[@jaxzilla_RL]

First

[@mathieubernier5746]

I love watching your videos on mute

[@dennisud]

A Southern Hockey League... REALLY! Nice arenas even for Hockey! 🥅 BTW, A few of these were used for Pro Wrestling for many years. I'm sure you can look them up!