Category: Indoor Professional Football League

2000 Portland Prowlers Program from the Indoor Professional Football League

Portland Prowlers

February 23, 2023

The Portland Prowlers were an indoor football team that competed for one season in the Indoor Professional Football League (IPFL) during the summer of 2000. The Prowlers came into the Rose City on the heels of the departing Portland Forest Dragons of the Arena Football League, a higher-profile and bigger budget franchise that left town for Oklahoma City following the 1999 season. While the Forest Dragons played at the city’s sparkling new 18,000-seat Rose Garden arena, the Prowlers set up shop at Portland’s “old” NBA arena, Memorial Coliseum.

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2001 Tennessee ThunderCats Program from the Indoor Professional Football League

Tennessee ThunderCats

January 18, 2023

The Tennessee ThunderCats were a low-budget indoor football team that played two summer seasons at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum in 2001 and 2002. The ‘Cats were members of the Indoor Professional Football League in 2001 and the National Indoor Football League in 2002. The franchise changed its name to the Tennessee RiverHawks ahead of the 2003 season and left town a year later.

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2000 Mississippi Fire Dogs Program from the Indoor Professional Football League

Mississippi Fire Dogs

August 10, 2014

The Mississippi Fire Dogs were an obscure indoor football outfit that played four seasons in the Gulf Coast city of Biloxi from 1999 through 2002. During the team’s first two seasons, former NFL quarterback John Fourcade served simultaneously as the Fire Dogs’ head coach, general manager and starting quarterback. Fourcade led the Fire Dogs to the Indoor Professional Football League title in 2000. The team went out of business following the 2002 season.

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