The Aviators were a messy, Texas pro hockey outfit that stumbled through one-and-a-half-seasons in the low-level Western Professional Hockey League in 1998 and 1999. A promising debut season on the ice culminated in a divisional title. But the Aviators’ multiple ownership fiascos ultimately sunk the club midway through its second campaign.
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“They called me ‘The Undertaker’,” Rudi Schiffer, 75, told me by way of introduction. “Because I buried so many teams. When I walked in the door, people said ‘Uh-oh…we‘re done‘”.
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