Both teams played their home games at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
The Phoenix Inferno, owned by Richard Ragone and later Irv Berger, entered the Major Indoor Soccer League in 1980.
The league approved the sale of the team to Bruce Merrill, chairman of American Cable Television, for $175,000.
[1] When Bruce Merrill purchased the Phoenix Inferno, he brought in Ted Podleski as general manager.
A devout Christian, Podleski objected to the use of the word Inferno and Merrill renamed the team the Pride.