Orlando Thunder

The Orlando Thunder was a member of the World League of American Football from 1991 to 1992. The team played their games in the 70,000 seat Florida Citrus Bowl, and was coached by Don Matthews in 1991 and Galen Hall in 1992. The team's most visible point was their colors – the League wanted to develop new colors which hadn't been used for teams before, hence the vermilion and green that the Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks wore, and the fluorescent green jerseys that the Thunder sported.

The team's general managers were Lee Corso and Dick Beam. In 1991 the team played to a 5–5 record, and in 1992 the team had an outstanding 8–2 record, and made it to the World Bowl II championship game before losing to the Sacramento Surge 21–17. The Thunder's attendance figures fell from over 19,000 per game in its first year to just over 16,000 per game in 1992. The team folded after the 1992 season with the rest of the WLAF's North American operations. The league would later use the team's name (but not its colors or history) for the Berlin Thunder.

Notable players include Kerwin Bell and Scott Mitchell, a left-handed quarterback who went on to play in the NFL for the Miami Dolphins and Detroit Lions and Dan Sileo, who went on to become a famous sports talk radio host.

In 2006, readers of ESPN's Uni Watch column voted the team's jersey 2nd worst football jersey of all time.

Season-by-season

Season	League	Regular season					Postseason
		Won	Lost	Ties	Win %	Finish	Won	Lost	Win %	Result
1991	WLAF	5	5	0	.500	2nd (North American East)	–	–	—	Out of playoffs.
1992	WLAF	8	2	0	.800	1st (North American East)	1	1	.500	Lost to Sacramento Surge in World Bowl '92
Total		13	7	0	.650		1	1	.500

1991 season

Results

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1	Template:Dow tooltip	San Antonio Riders	W 35–34	1–0	Florida Citrus Bowl	21,714
2	Template:Dow tooltip	Raleigh–Durham Skyhawks	W 58–20	2–0	Florida Citrus Bowl	20,811
3	Template:Dow tooltip	at London Monarchs	L 12–35	2–1	Wembley Stadium	35,327
4	April 14	at Barcelona Dragons	L 13–33	2–2	Montjuic Stadium	40,875
5	April 21	Birmingham Fire	L 6–31	2–3	Florida Citrus Bowl	21,249
6	Template:Dow tooltip	at New York/New Jersey Knights	L 6–42	2–4	Giants Stadium	30,046
7	Template:Dow tooltip	Frankfurt Galaxy	L 14–17	2–5	Florida Citrus Bowl	11,270
8	Template:Dow tooltip	Sacramento Surge	W 45–33	3–5	Florida Citrus Bowl	20,048
9	Template:Dow tooltip	at Raleigh–Durham Skyhawks	W 20–14	4–5	Carter–Finley Stadium	4,207
10	Template:Dow tooltip	at Montreal Machine	W 33–27 (OT)	5–5	Olympic Stadium	23,493

1992 season

Results

Week	Opponent	Results		Game site
		Final score	Team record
1	Ohio Glory	W 13–9	1–0	Florida Citrus Bowl
2	at Montreal Machine	L 29–31	1–1	Olympic Stadium
3	at Ohio Glory	W 28–3	2–1	Ohio Stadium
4	New York/New Jersey Knights	W 39–21	3–1	Florida Citrus Bowl
5	Montreal Machine	W 16–8	4–1	Florida Citrus Bowl
6	at Frankfurt Galaxy	W 38–0	5–1	Waldstadion
7	at San Antonio Riders	W 39–21	6–1	Bobcat Stadium
8	London Monarchs	W 9–0	7–1	Florida Citrus Bowl
9	at Birmingham Fire	L 23–24	7–2	Legion Field
10	Barcelona Dragons	W 13–10	8–2	Florida Citrus Bowl
Postseason
Semifinal	Birmingham Fire	W 45–7	9–2	Florida Citrus Bowl
World Bowl	Sacramento Surge	L 17–21	9–3	Olympic Stadium