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Van Andel Arena is a ___MASK15___ , 834 - seat multi - purpose arena , situated in the Heartside district of Grand Rapids , Michigan , United States . After a $ 75 million construction effort , the arena opened on October 8 , 1996 , and since has attracted over five million patrons . It is home to the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League , the top minor league affiliate of the Detroit Red Wings . It was also the home court of the now defunct Grand Rapids Hoops of the Continental Basketball Association from 1996 to ___MASK41___ and the Grand Rapids Rampage of the Arena Football League from ___MASK70___ to 2008 . Philadelphia soul , sometimes called Philly soul , the Philadelphia sound or Sweet Philly , is a genre of soul music characterized by funk influences and lush instrumental arrangements , often featuring sweeping strings and piercing horns . The subtle sound of a vibraphone can often be heard in the background of Philly soul songs . The genre laid the groundwork for disco and what are now considered quiet storm and smooth jazz by fusing the R & B rhythm sections of the 1960s with the pop vocal tradition , and featuring a slightly more pronounced jazz influence in its melodic structures and arrangements . Game summary . The Grand Rapids Rampage scored an ArenaBowl - record ( at the time ) 64 points as they sent a sellout crowd home from Van Andel Arena happy with a 64 - ___MASK27___ victory over the Nashville Kats to claim their first ArenaBowl title in team history . The Arena Football League ( AFL ) is a professional indoor American football league in the United States . It was founded in ___MASK14___ by Jim Foster , making it the third longest - running professional football league in North America , after the Canadian Football League ( CFL ) and the National Football League ( NFL ). The AFL plays a proprietary code known as arena football , a form of indoor American football played on a 66 - by - 28 yard field ( about a quarter of the surface area of an NFL field ), with rules encouraging offensive performance , resulting in a faster - paced and higher - scoring game . The sport was invented in the early 1980s and patented by Foster , a former executive of the United States Football League ( USFL ) and the NFL . Grand Rapids is the second - largest city in Michigan , and the largest city in West Michigan . It is on the Grand River about east of Lake Michigan . As of the ___MASK74___ census , the city population was 188 , 040 . In ___MASK74___ , the Grand Rapids metropolitan area had a population of ___MASK97___ , 005 , 648 , and the combined statistical area of Grand Rapids - Muskegon - Holland had a population of ___MASK97___ , 321 , 557 . Grand Rapids is the county seat of Kent County , Michigan . The Grand Rapids Rampage was an arena football team based in Grand Rapids , Michigan . The team began play in ___MASK70___ in the Arena Football League as an expansion team . They were last coached by Steve Thonn . Their home arena was the Van Andel Arena . The Nashville Kats were an Arena Football League team , located in Nashville , Tennessee . They were last coached by Pat Sperduto , who coached the team ' s original incarnation to two ArenaBowl appearances prior to the original franchise ' s move to Atlanta in ___MASK78___ ( then becoming the Georgia Force ). Sperduto also coached the second incarnation of the Nashville Kats following their return to the Arena Football League as an expansion team in ___MASK18___ . The ArenaBowl is the Arena Football League ' s championship game . It currently airs on ESPN . From ___MASK14___ to 2004 , the ArenaBowl was hosted by either the team with the better regular - season record or the higher seeding in the playoffs . From ArenaBowl XIX in 2005 until ArenaBowl XXII in 2008 , the game was played at a neutral site . When the AFL returned from a bankruptcy - induced hiatus in 2010 , the original format was used for this and the next season ; for ___MASK79___ and 2013 , the game returned to being played at a neutral site . In 2014 , it was announced that the ArenaBowl would return to the format in which the higher - seeded team would host the game . Steve Thonn ( pronounced TUN ) is the former head coach of the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League ( AFL ). Steve is also a former AFL player and the former head coach of the AFL ' s Grand Rapids Rampage . As a player he played WR / DB for the Chicago Bruisers ( ___MASK24___ ) and the Albany Firebirds ( 1990  1993 ). He was the offensive coordinator of the Georgia Force from 2004 to ___MASK40___ before being hired as the Rampage head coach . He was also the head coach of the Houston Thunderbears from ___MASK70___ to 2001 . AF2 ( often styled as af2 , and short for Arena Football ___MASK2___ ) was the name of the Arena Football League ' s developmental league ; it was founded in ___MASK32___ and played its first season in ___MASK6___ . Like its parent AFL , the AF2 played using the same arena football rules and style of play . League seasons ran from April through July with the postseason and ArenaCup championship in August . The AF2 continued to operate while the AFL suspended operations for its 2009 season . The league was effectively disbanded in September 2009 when no team committed to playing in 2010 , but several of the stronger franchises transferred into the reconstituted AFL . Arena football is a variety of indoor gridiron football played by the Arena Football League ( AFL ) and China Arena Football League ( CAFL ). It used to be a proprietary game ( the rights to which were owned by Gridiron Enterprises ) but the patent expired in ___MASK40___ . The game is played indoors on a smaller field than American or Canadian outdoor football , resulting in a faster and higher - scoring game . The sport was invented in 1981 , and patented in ___MASK14___ , by James F . Foster , Jr ., a former executive of the National Football League and the United States Football League . Though not the only variant of indoor American football , it is the most widely known , and the one on which most other forms of modern indoor football are at least partially based . The ArenaCup was the af2 ' s championship game . For the league ' s first five years , it was held at the arena of the higher seeded team . However , the ___MASK18___ ArenaCup was the first to be played at a neutral site in Bossier City , Louisiana . The ___MASK38___ ArenaCup was played in Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan . On August 25 , 2007 , ArenaCup 8 returned to Bossier City , LA . ArenaCup 9 was played at the arena of the higher seeded team , the Spokane Shock . ArenaCup 10 was held at the Orleans Arena in Paradise , Nevada . The Corpus Christi Sharks were a ___MASK40___ expansion member of the af2 . They played their home games at the American Bank Center . Michael Trigg was the team ' s head coach . Trigg previously was a head coach in the Arena Football League with the Milwaukee Mustangs , Grand Rapids Rampage and Philadelphia Soul , coaching the Rampage to victory in ArenaBowl XV . The Sharks folded in October 2009 . The team is not to be confused with the Corpus Christi Hammerheads of the Indoor Football League , the American Bank Center ' s former tenant now playing again at the American Bank Center , as the Sharks have since folded , there is n ' t competition in trying to schedule games that might occur on the same day . Quiet storm is a radio format and a subgenre of contemporary R & B music that is characterized by understated , mellow dynamics , slow tempos , and relaxed rhythms . It was pioneered in the mid - 1970s by Melvin Lindsey , while he was an intern at the radio station WHUR - FM in Washington , D . C .. This style of R & B music is named for Smokey Robinson ' s ___MASK95___ single " Quiet Storm ".