Rockford Metros
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The Rockford Metros were an Arena football team formed by Arena Football League founder Jim Foster for the purposes of playing a "test game" in Rockford, Illinois in the spring of 1986 at the Metro Center. They played against the Chicago Politicians. The test must have been successful, as the Arena Football League began operation the next spring with four teams and has operated continuously ever since. However no team was ever placed in, or apparently even proposed, for Rockford until the initiation of the minor league af2 in 2000, and currently there is still no team there, so as of this writing, the first game of Arena football ever played is still the only one ever played there.