Tag: Philip Subhan

1999 Idaho Stallions program from the Indoor Professional Football League

Idaho Stallions / Boise Stallions

March 4, 2023

The Idaho Stallions were a perpetually troubled indoor football team that played three seasons in the Indoor Football League from 1999 through 2001. The Stallions played in Nampa at the Idaho Center in 1999 before moving to Boise’s Bank of America Centre for its final two seasons. The team was known as the “Boise Stallions” during their final season in 2001, which saw the team lose its ownership in midseason and cancel several games in order to save money.

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Head coach Vaughn Hebron on the cover of a 2001 Trenton Lightning program from the Indoor Professional Football League

Trenton Lightning

February 25, 2023

The Trenton Lightning were an indoor football team that managed to play just six games during April and May of 2001. The team, coached by former Denver Broncos running back Vaughn Hebron, lost all six of its contests before financial scandals caused the team to disband. Later investigations revealed that Lightning founder Philip Subhan, an American Express Financial Advisor, funded the team with money embezzled from his clients. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2004.

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