The team averaged an attendance of only 9,800 fans per game and lost over $2 million in 1979-80.
"Already we've sold 2,000 season tickets and we project an average paid attendance of 5,000 fans per home game."
Teams can't subsist on attendance of a million fans a year.
Though organizers were disappointed with the attendance of just 6,000 fans, they met their $15,000 target.
Coming off of last season's success, the fan attendance continued to be very strong, with an average of over 30,000 fans per game.
As opposed to past two years, the 2011 Sonisphere was less well attended, with attendance of only 12,000 fans.
There was a live attendance of 43,200 fans waiting to see 193 laps of action on a road course.
It had an attendance of 450 fans despite a major snow storm that hit that night.
That game had an attendance of 41,383 fans, which remains the largest crowd in Southern Section history.
Following disappointing seasons and poor fan attendance, the franchise moved to Indianapolis in 1984.