{"id":206266,"date":"2026-03-26T01:50:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206266\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T01:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:50:42","slug":"orlandos-new-professional-indoor-football-team-the-pirates-to-host-an-open-practice-fan-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206266\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando\u2019s new professional indoor football team, the Pirates, to host an open practice &#038; Fan Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orlando Pirates, Orlando\u2019s latest professional sports team, will be holding an Open Practice and Fan Fest on Sunday, March 29, at 3:00 pm at the Showalter Field in Winter Park.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates professional indoor football team is relocating from Massachusetts to Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The team competes in the Indoor Football League, one of the premier indoor football leagues in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The team will play its home games at the Kia Center in downtown Orlando, with the first game scheduled for April 5.<\/p>\n<p>This relocation is supported by a partnership between the franchise\u2019s original ownership and the founders of Society Park Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of the Pirates is expected to create economic activity in the hospitality, marketing, and event management sectors. The team intends to contribute to local growth by hiring residents and partnering with area businesses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Pirates, Orlando\u2019s latest professional sports team, will be holding an Open Practice and Fan Fest on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[32381,94647,94644,139,141,140,10336,94645,94646],"class_list":["post-206266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-indoor-football-league","tag-indoor-football-leagues","tag-indoor-football-team","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-pirates","tag-professional-sports-team","tag-society-park-orlando"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}