The Denver Dynamite were a charter member of the Arena Football League, playing in the inaugural four-team "demonstration" season of 1987. Showcasing a high-powered offense led by former Vanderbilt University star quarterback Whit Taylor, the team nonetheless did not return for the league's second season in 1988. It was restarted in 1989, however, and operated for three subsequent seasons, ceasing operation after the 1991 campaign. Denver Dynamite logo, claiming fair use This work is copyrighted. ... The Arena Football League was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. ... See also: 1986 in sports, 1988 in sports and the list of years in sports. Auto Racing Stock car racing: Bill Elliott won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Dale Earnhardt CART Racing - Bobby Rahal won the season championship Indianapolis 500 - Al Unser, Sr. ... Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (colloquially known as Vandy) is a private, non-sectarian, coeducational university in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Whit Taylor was a star quarterback for the Vanderbilt University football team in the early 1980s, and quarterbacked that schools most recent winning team to an 8-4 record in 1982. ... See also: 1987 in sports, 1989 in sports and the list of years in sports. Auto Racing Stock car racing: Bobby Allison won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Bill Elliott CART Racing - Danny Sullivan won the season championship Indianapolis 500 - Rick Mears Formula One Championship - Brazil 24 hours of Le... See also: 1988 in sports, 1990 in sports and the list of years in sports. Auto Racing Stock car racing: Darrell Waltrip won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Rusty Wallace CART Racing - season championship won by Emerson Fittipaldi Indianapolis 500 - Emerson Fittipaldi Formula One Championship - France 24 hours of Le... See also: 1990 in sports, other events of 1991, 1992 in sports and the list of years in sports. Auto Racing Stock car racing: Ernie Irvan won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Dale Earnhardt CART Racing - Michael Andretti won the season championship Indianapolis 500 - Rick Mears Formula One Championship - Ayrton...

The owners retained the rights to operate an Arena Football franchise, however, which they sold in 1996 to a Nashville-based group which started the Nashville Kats (now the Georgia Force) the next year. Arena football is a sport invented by Jim Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League. ... See also: 1995 in sports, other events of 1996, 1997 in sports and the list of years in sports. Auto Racing Stock car racing: Dale Jarrett won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Terry Labonte Rusty Wallace wins the Suzuka NASCAR Thunder 100 at Suzuka City November 24, the first NASCAR... For other cities named Nashville, see Nashville (disambiguation). ... 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. ...

The Dynamite's memorable logo was, unsurprisingly, an exploding bundle of dynamite sticks. The team's home games were played in the McNichols Arena, which was then also the home of the NBA's Denver Nuggets. A logotype, commonly known as a logo, is the graphic element of a trademark or brand, which is set in a special typeface/font, or arranged in a particular, but legible, way. ... McNichols Sports Arena was an indoor arena in Denver, Colorado. ... The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... The Denver Nuggets are a National Basketball Association team based in Denver, Colorado. ...

Notable Players

• Wayne Coffey, Wide Receiver/Defensive Back 1989-91
• Marty Mornhinweg, Quarterback 1987
• Gary Mullen, Wide Receiver/Defensive Back 1987
• Bart Schuchts, Wide Receive/Linebacker 1989-91
• Harold Smith, Quarterback 1989
• Whit Taylor, Quarterback 1987