The following season was the Gladiators' fourth and last in Pittsburgh after co-owner Bob Greis decided to move the franchise to Tampa , Florida. The team was renamed the Tampa Bay Storm. Greis, who had several business interests in Florida, sold the franchise a few years later. The Storm remained in Tampa and reached the playoffs in each of their next 15 seasons, winning four more AFL titles.
In , Jerry Kurz , the commissioner of the Arena Football League, stated to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the Gladiators move to Tampa had nothing to do with the attendance for the games. He instead stated that the issues that prompted the team to relocate had more to do with the lack of additional accoutrements at the Civic Arena, such as updated luxury suites.
The current AFL policy is to give expansion teams in markets previously served by AFL teams the same name as their predecessor, since the league owns almost all rights to all team names in the league's history. However, because the unrelated Cleveland Gladiators already use the "Gladiators" name, that required the adoption of a new franchise name.
The team name was changed to the Power before the official announcement by the team. On August 20, , Matt Shaner was revealed as the principal owner and general manager of the team. Like Swann, Matt Shaner was once a political candidate. In he ran an unsuccessful campaign for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Roster updated April 4, American Football Wiki Explore. Our future plans are to expand our emissions testing program to test all of our own products, and to engineer systems to enable older trucks to enter into California and be emissions compliant.
With our service and parts, we are able to help owner-operators save their hard earned money while saving the world millions of gallon of diesel fuel per year as well as lower the emissions of semi-trucks. Bruce Mallinson started building engines at the age of 16 in With the fastest car in high school he got involved in drag racing and then onto road course racing.
The record lasted until Bruce virtually taught himself the diesel engine business and started to add employees in Business continued to grow and he had to build a new facility in Saxonburg, PA in , and added the engineering center with 3 dynamometers in Now with 24, sq.
Bruce got involved with the trucking industry at the young age of 19, so he has a total of 49 years with trucks, 39 of those years building engines for Owner-Operators. He started his career as a mechanic when he was 18 years old, and has been employed at Pittsburgh Power since He has extensive hands on knowledge of most diesel engines.
His hobbies include motorcycling, kayaking, and snow skiing in his free time. Brian has been with the company since May, Prior to becoming shop foreman, he had been the head mechanic for approximately 18 years. Brian started out in the pump room and worked his way up from there to mechanic to shop foreman all within the same company.
Brian is dedicated to the company's success and will go out of his way to provide excellent service to every customer. His career started in the fall of as a custodian, while he was attending college. During employment he acquired valuable knowledge of all our high performance diesel engine parts. As a result he was promoted to Parts Manager in His hobbies are softball, basketball, bicycling, hiking, and snow skiing.
Eric is one of our sales representatives who designs all of our Signature Series Pittsburgh Power Glider kits as well as assisting with parts and service calls. Craig began his passion of modifying engines at a young age. He specializes in performance upgrades and increasing gas mileage.
He is a dog lover, and enjoys motorsports, and festivals with his wife. Below is Bruce's Big Cam Book. It's a compilation of many articles written over the years so it may contain outdated pricing.
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