Indianapolis Racers

But during that time, the Pacers played there for 25 seasons.

The Indianapolis Racers brought professional hockey downtown.

Wayne Gretzky even played there when he was 17 years old.

and Elvis Presley performed what turned out to be the final concert of his life there.

But while the Pacers spent much of this period trying to establish themselves in the NBA, Market Square Arena was becoming much more than a basketball building.

The same year Market Square Arena opened, Indianapolis got a professional hockey team.

The Indianapolis Racers joined the World Hockey Association in 74 and played their home games at MSA.

In 1978, the Racers signed a 17-year-old player named Wayne Gretzky.

Not only did these teams have some of the best jerseys of all time, but the Edmonton Oilers in particular had something else.

A teenage player who had joined the team after coming over from the former Indianapolis Racers of the WHA.

A kid from Brantford, Ontario named Wayne Gretzky.

Despite all his success at the various levels growing up, Gretzky was told it would never continue at the next level.

Maybe the Edmonton Oilers.

They were the Indianapolis Racers in the AHL.

Let me just say again for all the listeners, I have no life.

And the Titans were the Oilers? And what were the Texans?