New Orleans Thunder
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The team was announced as one of the league's charter members on November 12, 1998.[1] For their lone season, Rex Stevenson would serve as head coach for the preseason and first two games before being replaced with former New Orleans Saints player Buford Jordan.[2][3] The team was quarterbacked by Doug Coleman,[4] who had played for the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds of NCAA Division II.[5]
Although the team was scheduled to play a 12-game regular season,[6] poor attendance and sagging revenues would prove too much for the new league. The Thunder lost each of their first six games,[7] then had a game cancelled due to financial constraints, before winning their final game. As a result, the team finished with a record of 1–6 for its lone season. After the season, the team looked at relocating to Birmingham, Alabama,[8] however the move never came to fruition as both the team and the league were disbanded.
The Thunder played in the only RFL game ever televised, on May 8, 1999, in Alabama against the eventual-champion Mobile Admirals.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The contest was shown on WHNO, a mainly-religious station in New Orleans.
1999 season schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | W/L | Score | Attnd. | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 18 | Mobile Admirals | Home | L | 14–42 | 500 | [9][3] |
| April 25 | Ohio Cannon | Away | L | 0–34 | [3] | |
| May 2 | Mississippi Pride | Home | L | 14–30 | 4,000 | [4] |
| May 8 | Mobile Admirals | Away | L | 6–23 | 10,146 | [10] |
| May 16 | Shreveport Knights | Home | L | 14–31 | 125 | [11][12] |
| May 22 | Houston Outlaws | Away | L | 12–31 | 1,500 | [13] |
| May 29 | Ohio Cannon | Home | — | cancelled | — | [14] |
| June 5Template:Dagger | Mississippi Pride | Away | W | 12–7 | 2,700 | [15] |
Template:Dagger The June 5 game was originally scheduled to be against the Shreveport Knights, in Shreveport.[16]
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