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[[Image:MaconWhoopee.png|thumb|Macon Whoopee logo from late CHL and ECHL eras, featuring a '''bird and a bee'''.  The bird is a '''whooping crane.'''

The '''Macon Whoopee''' was the name given to two distinct former [[ice hockey]] teams, both of which were located in [[Macon, Georgia]]. The teams played their home games at the [[Macon Coliseum]].

The first team, known as the '''Whoopees''', played in the [[Southern Hockey League]] in 1973. Despite a brief flash of national publicity due to the unusual nickname (NBC aired their scores and highlights on its [[NHL]] Game Of The Week), poor attendance led the team to disband in mid-season. 

Hockey was not resurrected in Macon until 1996. A new team, known as the '''Whoopee''' (without the plural "s") played in the [[Central Hockey League]] from 1996 to 2001 and the [[ECHL]] in 2002. After several owners endured seasons of poor attendance and monetary losses, the team finally went under in 2002.

Efforts to continue professional hockey in Macon led to the formation of the [[Macon Trax]], also now defunct.

The history of the original team is chronicled in the book ''Once Upon a Whoopee'' by Bill Buckley and Ed Grisamore.
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	The '''Macon Whoopee''' was the name given to two distinct former [[ice hockey]] teams, both of which were located in [[Macon, Georgia]]. The teams played their home games at the [[Macon Coliseum]].		The '''Macon Whoopee''' was the name given to two distinct former [[ice hockey]] teams, both of which were located in [[Macon, Georgia]]. The teams played their home games at the [[Macon Coliseum]].