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Fort Wayne Freedom
Fort Wayne Freedom logo
Founded 2003
League Continental Indoor Football League
Team History Fort Wayne Freedom 2003-2006, 2008-present
Arena Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Team Colors Red, White, & Blue
President Mark Chappuis, Bill Fahlsing
Head Coach Matt Land
Championships 0
Division Titles 0
Dancers The First Ladies
Mascot Uncle Sam and Kooka Bird

The Fort Wayne Freedom is a team in the Continental Indoor Football League, beginning play in the 2008 season. The Continental Indoor Football League ( CIFL) is an indoor football league based along the Northeastern United States region Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum is a 13000-seat multi-purpose Arena in Fort Wayne Indiana, initially built in 1952 for nearly $3 million in Fort Wayne is a City in northeastern Indiana, United States and the County seat of Allen The State of Indiana ( was the 19th US state admitted into the union The Continental Indoor Football League ( CIFL) is an indoor football league based along the Northeastern United States region Like the original Freedom, they will retain a red, white, and blue color scheme, and play in the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum is a 13000-seat multi-purpose Arena in Fort Wayne Indiana, initially built in 1952 for nearly $3 million in

The 2008 Freedom's owner was originally Todd Ellis, who formerly owned the Mississippi Mudcats. The Mississippi MudCats are a team of the American Indoor Football Association. Ellis was ousted in April, 2008 - less than 2 months into his first season as owner - amid reports of financial troubles and organizational turmoil. Minority owners Mark Chappuis and Bill Fahlsing assumed control of the team after Ellis proved unable to meet financial obligations and Ellis fell into default with the CIFL. As of April, 2008, the only regular front office member is Assistant General Manager Elvis Ahlborn, who had previously worked in the af2 with the Fort Wayne Fusion (2007) and Green Bay Blizzard (2003-2006).

Willie Davis, Jr. was named the head coach for the 2008 season, but after posting a 3-5 record with an ineffective offense, Davis was released the morning of the Freedom's May 17th game against the Chicago Slaughter. His replacement was former Freedom head coach Matt Land, who was asked to lead the team for the final four games by Fahlsing. With only 15 minutes of practice, Land's second term began with a 41-33 loss, despite a solid performace by the Freedom defense.


Contents

Season-By-Season

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties

Season W L T Finish Playoff results
*2008 5 7 0 3rd Great Lakes East Missed Playoffs

* = Current Standing

2008 Season Schedule

Date Opponent Home/Away Result
March 21 Miami Valley Silverbacks Home Won 52-48
March 27 Kalamazoo Xplosion Home Lost 34-50
April 4 Rock River Raptors Away Lost 29-64
April 12 Muskegon Thunder Away Lost 33-39
April 19 Rock River Raptors Home Won 55-54
April 26 Marion Mayhem Home Won 55-40
May 2 Miami Valley Silverbacks Away Lost 29-35
May 10 Saginaw Sting Home Lost 21-34
May 17 Chicago Slaughter Away Lost 33-41
May 24 Muskegon Thunder Home Won 42-38
May 31 Chesapeake Tide Away Won 37-31
June 7 Kalamazoo Xplosion Away Lost 32-39

Original Team

Original logo of the Freedom.
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The original Fort Wayne Freedom was a professional indoor football team. This article discusses indoor variations of American football for indoor versions of association football (soccer see Futsal and Indoor soccer and for the They were founded by Richard Coffey, who had spent ten years as the General Manager of the Fort Wayne Fury of the CBA (Continental Basketball Association) the development league of the NBA. The CBA folded in 2001 when Isiah Thomas bankrupted the League. They were most recently a member of the United Indoor Football league (UIF), and played their home games at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. United Indoor Football was an Indoor football league that started in 2005 The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum is a 13000-seat multi-purpose Arena in Fort Wayne Indiana, initially built in 1952 for nearly $3 million in In 2004, the Freedom set the single game record for attendance at 10,225. In 2005, the Freedom moved to the UIF after 2 years in the NIFL. National Indoor Football League was a minor league indoor football league that is based in the United States. The Freedom won the 2005 UIF Midwest Division Championship, went 14-2 in the regular season, while clinching the #1 seed in the playoffs, but lost 57-22 in the first round of the UIF Playoffs to the Tennessee Valley Raptors. This page is for the Continental Indoor Football League team for the National Premier Soccer League team also based in Rockford see Rockford Raptors.

Team History

The Freedom selected a new coach for the 2006 season, after Matt Land left the Freedom to coach Tri-State University in NCAA Division III. Matt Land is the current head football coach for Tri-State University. Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. The Freedom selected one of their own as they signed Dan Pifer to be their new head coach. Dan Pifer is the former Head coach for the United Indoor Football league's now-defunct Fort Wayne Freedom. Pifer is also the offensive coordinator for NCAA Division III Tri-State under former coach Matt Land. He also was an assistant coach at the University of St. Francis, a NAIA institution, and NCAA Division II Hillsdale College in Michigan. The University of Saint Francis is a liberal arts university located in Fort Wayne Indiana, which is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church Division II (or DII) is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan is a co-educational Liberal arts college known for its refusal of government funding and its monthly publication Pifer also was a high school assistant and played quarterback at the University of California in Pennsylvania. After completing its fourth year of football, the Freedom was sold Jeremy Golden, who moved the franchise to af2.

Freedom's death knell

The team had been heavily rumored to move to arenafootball2 for quite some time, and Coffey sold the assets to Golden on November 10, 2006. af2 (short for arenafootball2) is the name of the Arena Football League 's Minor league, which started play in 2000. Events 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Golden had already applied for and was awarded an af2, but because only the assets and not the Freedom's corporate entity were sold, the Fort Wayne Fusion af2 franchise is not a continuation of the UIF team. af2 (short for arenafootball2) is the name of the Arena Football League 's Minor league, which started play in 2000. The Fort Wayne Fusion was a 2007 Af2 (Arena Football League's minor league expansion team in the Midwest Division of the American Conference

Fans

The Freedom Force is the official fan club of the Fort Wayne Freedom.

Head Coaches

Former Staff

Season-By-Season

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties

Season W L T Finish Playoff results
Fort Wayne Freedom (NIFL)
2003 8 6 0 3rd Atlantic East --
2004 8 6 0 3rd Atlantic North Won Round 1 (Believers)
Lost Semifinal (Greyhounds)
Fort Wayne Freedom (UIF)
2005 14 2 0 1st Midwest Lost Round 1 (T.V. Raptors)
2006 4 11 0 4th East --
Totals 35 27 0 (including playoffs)

2003 Season

Game-by-Game results

Date Opponent Result Record
March 22, 2003 vs. Matt Land is the current head football coach for Tri-State University. Dan Pifer is the former Head coach for the United Indoor Football league's now-defunct Fort Wayne Freedom. Dan Pifer is the former Head coach for the United Indoor Football league's now-defunct Fort Wayne Freedom. Dan Pifer is the former Head coach for the United Indoor Football league's now-defunct Fort Wayne Freedom. The Ohio Valley Greyhounds are a professional Indoor football team This page is for the Continental Indoor Football League team for the National Premier Soccer League team also based in Rockford see Rockford Raptors. Evansville BlueCats W - 41-40 (1-0)
March 29, 2003 vs. Also see Sports in Evansville. The Evansville BlueCats are a professional Indoor football team Tupelo Fire Ants W - 57-22 (2-0)
April 12, 2003 vs. The Tupelo FireAnts were a professional Indoor football team that played their home games at the BancorpSouth Center in Tupelo, Mississippi. Ohio Valley Greyhounds L - 41-54 (2-1)
April 19, 2003 at Tennessee Riverhawks L - 48-65 (2-2)
April 25, 2003 at Ohio Valley Greyhounds L - 42-48 (2-3)
May 3, 2003 vs. The Ohio Valley Greyhounds are a professional Indoor football team 2001 Tennessee ThunderCats IPFL Schedule Week 1 – Tennessee ThunderCats 52 Trenton Lightning 25 Week 2 – Tennessee ThunderCats 34 St The Ohio Valley Greyhounds are a professional Indoor football team Sioux Falls Storm W - 55-19 (3-3)
May 17, 2003 vs. The Sioux Falls Storm are a professional Indoor football team Myrtle Beach Stingrays W - 51-25 (4-3)
May 24, 2003 at Evansville BlueCats W - 62-33 (5-3)
May 30, 2003 at Lacrosse Night Train W - 59-06 (6-3)
June 6, 2003 vs. The Fayetteville Guard is a professional Indoor football team Also see Sports in Evansville. The Evansville BlueCats are a professional Indoor football team The La Crosse Night Train were a professional Indoor football team Tennessee Riverhawks W 74-15 (7-3)
June 14, 2003 at Sioux Falls Storm L 49-52 (7-4)
June 21, 2003 at Myrtle Beach Stingrays L - 41-50 (7-5)
June 26, 2003 at Lexington Horsemen L - 43-59 (7-6)
July 5, 2003 vs. 2001 Tennessee ThunderCats IPFL Schedule Week 1 – Tennessee ThunderCats 52 Trenton Lightning 25 Week 2 – Tennessee ThunderCats 34 St The Sioux Falls Storm are a professional Indoor football team The Lexington Horsemen are an Af2 team based in Lexington Kentucky. Lexington Horsemen W - 76-62 (8-6)

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2004 Season

Game-by-Game results

Date Opponent Result Record
March 14, 2004 vs. Show-Me Believers W - 66-37 (1-0)
March 20, 2004 vs. Evansville BlueCats W - 80-41 (2-0)
April 3, 2004 at Lexington Horsemen L - 21-49 (2-1)
April 10, 2004 vs. Also see Sports in Evansville. The Evansville BlueCats are a professional Indoor football team The Lexington Horsemen are an Af2 team based in Lexington Kentucky. Lexington Horsemen L - 48-51 (2-2)
April 24, 2004 vs. Atlantic City CardSharks W - 63-54 (3-2)
May 1, 2004 at Evansville BlueCats L - 68-71 (3-3)
May 8, 2004 vs. The Atlantic City CardSharks were a professional indoor football team that played in the NIFL (National Indoor Football League for a single season Also see Sports in Evansville. The Evansville BlueCats are a professional Indoor football team Ohio Valley Greyhounds W - 43-35 (4-3)
May 15, 2004 at Staten Island Xtreme L - 41-42 (4-4)
May 21, 2004 vs. The Ohio Valley Greyhounds are a professional Indoor football team The Staten Island Xtreme were a professional Indoor football team that played in the National Indoor Football League in 2004 going 3-11 Staten Island Xtreme W - 56-07 (5-4)
May 28, 2004 at Show-Me Believers W - 49-35 (6-4)
June 5, 2004 at Ohio Valley Greyhounds L - 23-52 (6-5)
June 12, 2004 at Atlantic City CardSharks L - 27-41 (6-6)
June 19, 2004 at Tupelo Fire Ants W - 61-40 (7-6)
June 26, 2004 vs. The Staten Island Xtreme were a professional Indoor football team that played in the National Indoor Football League in 2004 going 3-11 The Ohio Valley Greyhounds are a professional Indoor football team The Tupelo FireAnts were a professional Indoor football team that played their home games at the BancorpSouth Center in Tupelo, Mississippi. Carolina Stingrays W - 48-03# (8-6)

# = set single game indoor football attendance record with 10,225 fans. The Fayetteville Guard is a professional Indoor football team [2]

2005 Season

The 2005 season was a season for the ages, and statistically is the best season the Freedom have had in franchise history. Finishing a league-best 14-2, the Freedom had high hopes as they went into the first-round of the UIF playoffs. On the other hand, the Tennessee Valley Raptors had other plans. This page is for the Continental Indoor Football League team for the National Premier Soccer League team also based in Rockford see Rockford Raptors. Considering the game was in Fort Wayne, the Freedom were heavily favored, and the Raptors didn't take that into consideration when they destroyed the Freedom 57-22. A phenomenal season for the Freedom came to an end with a miserable showing in the first-round against a team that had more heart and more poise.

Game-by-Game results

Date Opponent Result Record
March 20, 2005 vs. Ohio Valley Greyhounds W 29-25 (1-0)
April 10, 2005 at Ohio Valley Greyhounds W 31-20 (2-0)
April 16, 2005 vs. The Ohio Valley Greyhounds are a professional Indoor football team The Ohio Valley Greyhounds are a professional Indoor football team Black Hills Red Dogs W - 59-34 (3-0)
April 23, 2005 at Tupelo Fire Ants W - 51-15 (4-0)
April 30, 2005 at Sioux Falls Storm W - 34-31 (5-0)
May 7, 2005 vs. Team History 2000-2005 The team began play as the Black Hills Machine of the Indoor Football League in 2000 The Tupelo FireAnts were a professional Indoor football team that played their home games at the BancorpSouth Center in Tupelo, Mississippi. The Sioux Falls Storm are a professional Indoor football team Sioux City Bandits W - 57-50 (6-0)
May 13, 2005 vs. Season-By-Season |-| colspan="6" align="center" | Sioux City Attack (Indoor Football League |-|2000 || 9 || 5 || 0 || 3rd WC Southern || Won Round 1 Peoria Rough Riders W - 52-32 (7-0)
May 21, 2005 at Peoria Rough Riders W - 41-13 (8-0)
May 28, 2005 vs. The Peoria Pirates are a professional Arena football team currently playing in Af2, the Minor league to the Arena Football League. The Peoria Pirates are a professional Arena football team currently playing in Af2, the Minor league to the Arena Football League. Tupelo Fire Ants W - 45-20 (9-0)
June 5, 2005 vs. The Tupelo FireAnts were a professional Indoor football team that played their home games at the BancorpSouth Center in Tupelo, Mississippi. Omaha Beef W - 42-40 (10-0)
June 11, 2005 at Omaha Beef L - 30-33 (10-1)
June 18, 2005 vs. The Omaha Beef are a professional Indoor football team They are a member of the Indoor Football League. The Omaha Beef are a professional Indoor football team They are a member of the Indoor Football League. Lexington Horsemen L 41-58 (10-2)
June 25, 2005 at Peoria Rough Riders W - 56-35 (11-2)
July 2, 2005 at Black Hills Red Dogs W - 40-26 (12-2)
July 8, 2005 at Ohio Valley Greyhounds W - 44-34 (13-2)
July 17, 2005 vs. The Lexington Horsemen are an Af2 team based in Lexington Kentucky. The Peoria Pirates are a professional Arena football team currently playing in Af2, the Minor league to the Arena Football League. The Ohio Valley Greyhounds are a professional Indoor football team Ohio Valley Greyhounds W - 41-31 (14-2)

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2006 Season

Game-by-Game results

Date Opponent Result Record
March 25, 2006 vs. The Ohio Valley Greyhounds are a professional Indoor football team Sioux City Bandits W - 28-23 (1-0)
April 1, 2006 at Bloomington Extreme W - 51-28 (2-0)
April 8, 2006 vs. Season-By-Season |-| colspan="6" align="center" | Sioux City Attack (Indoor Football League |-|2000 || 9 || 5 || 0 || 3rd WC Southern || Won Round 1 The Bloomington Extreme are a professional Indoor football team Ohio Valley Greyhounds W - 37-32 (3-0)
April 15, 2006 at Sioux City Bandits L - 27-41 (3-1)
April 22, 2006 vs. The Ohio Valley Greyhounds are a professional Indoor football team Season-By-Season |-| colspan="6" align="center" | Sioux City Attack (Indoor Football League |-|2000 || 9 || 5 || 0 || 3rd WC Southern || Won Round 1 Sioux Falls Storm L - 44-47 (3-2)
April 28, 2006 at Lexington Horsemen L - 65-32 (3-3)
May 6, 2006 at Sioux Falls Storm L - 25-44 (3-4)
May 12, 2006 vs. The Sioux Falls Storm are a professional Indoor football team The Sioux Falls Storm are a professional Indoor football team Rock River Raptors L - 36-49 (3-5)
May 20, 2006 vs. This page is for the Continental Indoor Football League team for the National Premier Soccer League team also based in Rockford see Rockford Raptors. Evansville BlueCats L - 31-33 (3-6)
June 3, 2006 at Ohio Valley Greyhounds L - 29-52 (3-7)
June 10, 2006 at Evansville BlueCats L - 37-43 (3-8)
June 17, 2006 at Rock River Raptors L - 27-29 (3-9)
June 24, 2006 vs. Also see Sports in Evansville. The Evansville BlueCats are a professional Indoor football team The Ohio Valley Greyhounds are a professional Indoor football team Also see Sports in Evansville. The Evansville BlueCats are a professional Indoor football team This page is for the Continental Indoor Football League team for the National Premier Soccer League team also based in Rockford see Rockford Raptors. Ohio Valley Greyhounds W - 42-40 (4-9)
July 1, 2006 vs. The Ohio Valley Greyhounds are a professional Indoor football team Lexington Horsemen L - 44-70 (4-10)
July 8, 2006 at Omaha Beef L - 13-52 (4-11)

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External links

References

  1. ^ Freedom's 2003 Season Stats
  2. ^ Freedom's 2004 Season Stats
  3. ^ Freedom's 2005 Season Stats
  4. ^ Freedom's 2006 Season Stats
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