Starting in 2013, the Los Angeles Kiss was an Arena Football League team owned by Kiss lead members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. The games were themed to echo a Kiss music concert: games opened with an electric guitar rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner; there was “loud pyrotechnics and music” throughout the game; “the Kiss logo is plastered everywhere: on the arena football field, on the end zone and on the flame-emblazoned jerseys in the stands. There was also a Kiss Girls dance-squad in black leather. The team’s artificial turf field was also colored in a unique silver color scheme. Unable to be financially viable and after being Los Angeles’ third attempt at an Arena Football League, the team’s last season was in 2016
