Mark Ricks played for what team that was in the Eastern Division of the Arena Football League in the New York Metropolitan area?
New York Dragons
Mark Ricks (gridiron football)
Mark Ricks (born December 16, 1970) is a former American football defensive back who played ten seasons in the Arena Football League with the St. Louis Stampede, Nashville Kats, Portland Forest Dragons, Portland Forest Dragons/Oklahoma Wranglers, Los Angeles Avengers, Arizona Rattlers, Grand Rapids Rampage and New York Dragons.
 He played college football at Western Michigan University.
 He was also a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers] and Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League.
New York Dragons
The New York Dragons were a professional arena football team based in the New York metropolitan area.
 The Dragons participated Arena Football League's (AFL) National Conference as a member of the Eastern Division.
 The team was founded in 1995 as the original iteration of the Iowa Barnstormers, and relocated to New York in 2001 .
 They played in New York until 2008, when the league folded.
 They played in the Eastern Division of the National Conference, and played their home games at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.
 Their last coach was Weylan Harding.
List of Arena Football League arenas
The following is a list of Arena Football League (AFL) arenas.
 American and Canadian football is traditionally played outdoors on grass or artificial turf fields 120–150 yards (109.73–137.16 m) in length.
 However, arena football is played in covered climate-controlled multi-purpose venues.
 The field is comparable to the size of a National Hockey League rink, allowing 50 yard for a scrimmage area.
 The AFL was established in 1987 and features arena football teams across the United States.
 In 2014, the average AFL attendance was 8,473 per game.
 That year the Tampa Bay Storm averaged the most attendees per game with 11,402.
 The Orlando Predators were the least attended team in 2014 drawing an average of 5,421 per game.
 Talking Stick Resort Arena was the home of the Arizona Rattlers from 1992 until the team's departure in 2016, making it the longest operating AFL venue.
 The smallest venue to house an AFL team was the 5,000 seat West Palm Beach Auditorium, the home of the Florida Bobcats from 1996 to 1998.
 ArenaBowl IX at the Thunderdome (now Tropicana Field) in St. Petersburg, Florida on September 1, 1995, was the highest attended game in AFL history (25,087).
 Joe Louis Arena in Detroit has been host to four ArenaBowls (1989, 1990, 1991, 1993). Bossier–Shreveport Battle Wings
The Bossier–Shreveport Battle Wings were an Arena Football League team based in Bossier City, Louisiana.
 They played at the CenturyTel Center in Bossier City and took their name from the metropolitan area that consists of Bossier City and neighboring city Shreveport in the Ark-La-Tex corridor.
 Playing in the defunct af2 from their inception in 2001 until the league's folding in 2009 (and called the Bossier City Battle Wings from 2001–2003), the team had its best seasons in 2002, 2007, 2008, and 2009 having clinched division titles in the latter two years.
 They were also the only seasons in which the team had more wins than losses.
 In 2007, the Battle Wings clinched their first-ever playoff berth, beating the Arkansas Twisters and Rio Grande Valley Dorados before being beaten by the eventual Arena Cup champion Tulsa Talons.
 Despite having little success in their earlier days, the Battle Wings turned out some players that have gone on to appear in both the Canadian Football League and for other teams the Arena Football League, in which the team itself played for a single season after the AFL emerged from bankruptcy and resumed operations.
 Following the 2010 season, the team moved to New Orleans, Louisiana for the 2011 AFL season and became a successor to the New Orleans VooDoo. Dallas Desperados
The Dallas Desperados were a professional arena football team based in Dallas, Texas.
 The Desperados played in the Eastern Division of the Arena Football League from 2002 to 2008. Chinese Americans in New York City
The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, constituting the largest metropolitan Asian American group in the United States and the largest Asian-national metropolitan diaspora in the Western Hemisphere.
 This population enumerates an estimated 812,410 uniracial individuals as of 2015, including at least 12 Chinatowns in the metropolitan area.
 Six Chinatowns (or nine, including the emerging Chinatowns in Corona and Whitestone, Queens, and East Harlem, Manhattan) are located in New York City proper, and one each is located in Nassau County, Long Island; Edison, New Jersey; and Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey.
 This excludes fledgling ethnic Chinese enclaves emerging throughout the New York metropolitan area, such as Jersey City, New Jersey; China City of America in Sullivan County, New York; and "Dragon Springs" in Deerpark, Orange County, New York.
 The Chinese American community in the New York metropolitan area is rising rapidly in population as well as economic and political influence. List of Buffalo Bills head coaches
The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo, New York metropolitan area.
 They are members of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
 The Bills franchise was formed in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL), before joining the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL merger of 1970. List of Spokane Shock seasons
This is a list of seasons completed by the Spokane Shock.
 The Shock are a professional arena football franchise of the Indoor Football League (IFL), based in Spokane, Washington, playing home games at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena.
 The team was established in 2006 as a member of arenafootball2 (AF2).
 In the franchise's first season, the Shock won the ArenaCup, the AF2's championship game.
 The Shock were champions again in 2009, the AF2's final season before the league effectively dissolved.
 On September 28, 2009, the Shock, along with most AF2 teams, announced they would join the new Arena Football One, which after a December 2009 auction of the former Arena Football League's assets, became the new Arena Football League.
 In 2010, the Shock were crowned champions of the AFL by winning ArenaBowl XXIII.
 Until the 2011 season, the Shock finished with the best record in their division every year the first five years of their existence. Toronto Phantoms
The Toronto Phantoms were a professional arena football team based in Toronto, Ontario.
 The team was a member of the Eastern Division of the National Conference of the Arena Football League (AFL).
 The team also previously operated in New York City and Hartford, Connecticut. 2005 Arena Football League season
The 2005 Arena Football League season was the 19th season of the Arena Football League.
 The league champions were the Colorado Crush, who defeated the Georgia Force in ArenaBowl XIX.
 The AFL changed its playoff format to allow the top four teams per conference to make the playoffs.
 Previously, the top eight teams in the league make the playoffs, regardless of their conference.
 Also, there was no inter-conference play in the playoffs until the Arena Bowl starting in 2005.
 The division champions also received an automatic playoff berth.
 This was probably brought on by the fact that the year before the Eastern Division champion New York Dragons missed the playoffs.