The Major League Lacrosse season will begin April 21 for the Dallas Rattlers with subsequent home games held at the Ford Center at The Star. The Rattlers' first home game is April 29. The Rattlers made the announcement last November that they would be moving their team from Rochester, New York, to Frisco. “Last year the MLL championship game was held at the Ford Center, and that was kind of a testing ground to see if [Frisco] would be a good place to move a team,” Rattlers President Bill Goren said. “It was a great success. Lacrosse is blowing up in this community, and the championship game kind of proved that there’s some traction here for the game of lacrosse.” The team had been in Rochester since 2001, but when the decision was made to move the team to Frisco, most of the staff that was hired on was from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Goren is from Frisco and was hired on about a month before the announcement to move to Frisco was made. However, Goren and his staff said they were not going to require any of the players signed up to play in Rochester to play in Frisco. “We thought at the time that we were going to have the worst team in lacrosse,” Goren said. All of the players have regular jobs outside of playing for the team, so they fly in for home games and away games. Most of the players are from the East Coast, and others are from Florida, Goren said. Goren said asking the players to fly into Dallas for practice and games would have been a bigger commitment for them. “However, when we did the press conference announcing the move [at The Star], it came off incredibly well,” Goren said. “We had a good vision and players saw that and the field they would be playing on, and they started signing on. So we have about 80 percent from the team last year, and we’ve added some solid local guys. At this point we feel like we have one of the best teams in the league.” The first game of the season for Dallas Rattlers will be April 21 against the Chesapeake Bayhawks in Maryland. The team returns to the Ford Center on April 29 for its first home game against the Denver Outlaws. The game starts at 2 p.m., and tickets range from $20-$45. For more information, visit www.dallasrattlers.com.