Steve Thonn (pronounced TUN) is a former Arena Football League player and the current head coach of the AFL team Grand Rapids Rampage. The Arena Football League (AFL was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. For the coaching strategy game see NFL Head Coach. A head coach is a professional who is responsible for the overall actions of The Grand Rapids Rampage is an Arena Football League team that began playing as a 1998 expansion team As a player he played WR/DB for the Chicago Bruisers (1988) and the Albany Firebirds (1990-1993). A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage they The Chicago Bruisers were a charter member of the Arena Football League, playing in the four-team "demonstration season" of 1987. The Indiana Firebirds were a team in the Arena Football League. He was the Defensive Coordinator of the Georgia Force from 2004-2007 before being hired as the Rampage Head Coach. A defensive coordinator typically refers to a coach on an American football team who is in charge of the defense. The Georgia Force is in no way related to the San Antonio Force, which was an Arena Football League team that played only in the 1992 season before disbanding He was also the Head Coach of the Houston Thunderbears from 1998-2001. The Houston ThunderBears were a team in the Arena Football League that operated from 1996-2001
Thonn attended Wheaton College and was a student and a letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. In football, he was named as a Division III All-America selection as a senior.
| Year | Team | Rec | Yards | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Chicago | 21 | 209 | 2 |
| 1990 | Albany | 14 | 138 | 2 |
| 1991 | Albany | 6 | 113 | 3 |
| 1992 | Albany | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1993 | Albany | 24 | 218 | 4 |
| Career | 66 | 682 | 11 |