Houston Thunderbears
Year founded	1996
Year folded	2001
Prior names	Texas Terror
ArenaBowl championships	none

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History

Texas Terror (1996-1997)

The Texas Terror was a franchise in the Arena Football League, a league which plays a scaled-down version of American football in venues primarily designed for ice hockey or basketball. The Terror played in the 1996 and 1997 Arena seasons. Their home games were played at the Compaq Center, previously known as the Houston Summit and also at that time home to the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. The Terror's logo appeared to be a stylized representation of Frankenstein's monster holding a football. Image File history File links TexasTerror. ... The Texas Terror was a franchise in the Arena Football League, a league which plays a scaled-down version of American football in venues primarily designed for ice hockey or basketball. ... The Arena Football League (AFL) was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Basketball is very popular in U.S. colleges. ... 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... See also: 1996 in sports, other events of 1997, 1998 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Jeff Gordon is the youngest driver ever to win the Daytona 500 on February 16 NASCAR Championship - Jeff Gordon Indy Racing League - Indianapolis 500 - Arie Luyendyk... The Compaq Center, once named The Summit was a basketball and hockey arena in Houston, Texas. ... The Houston Rockets are a National Basketball Association team based in Houston, Texas. ... NBA logo, depicting former star Jerry West The National Basketball Association, more popularly known as the NBA, is a reference to the worlds premier mens professional basketball league and one of the major professional sports leagues of North America. ... 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. ... Boris Karloff as Frankensteins monster, along with Elsa Lanchester, in Bride of Frankenstein Frankensteins Monster (sometimes Frankensteins Creature or The Frankenstein Monster) is an undead creature first appearing in Mary Shelleys novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. ...

The 1996 season was an unmitigated disaster, with the Terror notching only one win, coming against another first-year team, the ill-fated Minnesota Fighting Pike. The 1997 season was considerably better with a record of 6-8, but the attendance was abysmal, especially given the size of the Houston market. After the season, the decision was made to remake the franchise and scrap both the existing logo and team name, and the team was renamed the Houston Thunderbears. Categories: Stub | Defunct American football teams | Minnesota sports ...

Houston Thunderbears (1998-2001)

The Houston Thunderbears were a continuation of the Texas Terror franchise (1996-1997) of the Arena Football League under a new name, logo, and color scheme. The team still played its home games at the Compaq Center. 1998, the first year as the Thunderbears, was the high-water mark in team history, in which they recorded their only winning season and sole playoff appearance (a loss to Arizona). The two subsequent seasons saw a decline in both on-field performance and attendance. By the 2001 season, it was apparent that continuing the franchise in the Compaq Center would be pointless. Although still called the Houston Thunderbears, the team actually played none of its games in Houston, instead playing at various neutral sites where the league hoped to stimulate interest. If the goal of this travel was to find the Thunderbears a new home it was a failure as the team folded after the season. The Texas Terror was a franchise in the Arena Football League, a league which plays a scaled-down version of American football in venues primarily designed for ice hockey or basketball. ... 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... See also: 1996 in sports, other events of 1997, 1998 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Jeff Gordon is the youngest driver ever to win the Daytona 500 on February 16 NASCAR Championship - Jeff Gordon Indy Racing League - Indianapolis 500 - Arie Luyendyk... The Arena Football League (AFL) was founded in 1987 as an American football indoor league. ... 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. ... The Compaq Center, once named The Summit was a basketball and hockey arena in Houston, Texas. ... See also: 1997 in sports, 1999 in sports and the list of years in sports. Auto Racing Stock car racing: Dale Earnhardt won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Jeff Gordon Indy Racing League - Indianapolis 500 - Eddie Cheever CART Racing - Alex Zanardi won the season championship Formula One Championship - Finland 24... Arizona Rattlers are an Arena Football League team, based in Phoenix, Arizona. ... See also: 2000 in sports, other events of 2001, 2002 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing Stock car racing: Michael Waltrip won the Daytona 500, a race that also saw the death of seven-time NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt in an unspectacular crash during the...

Season-by-season

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

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Notable Players

• Ben Bronson, Offensive specialist 1998-2001
• Terence Davis, Wide Receiver/Linebacker 1998-2001
• Clint Dolezel, Quarterback 1998-1999
• Robert Hall, Offensive Specialist 1999-2000
• Todd Hammel, Quarterback 2001
• Larry Jones, Defensive Specialist 1999; 2000-2001
• Thomas McGaughey, Wide Receiver/Linebacker 1998
• Sedrick Robinson, Wide Receiver/Linebacker 2001

The Right Honourable Terry Davis (born January 5, 1938) is a British politician, and former Member of Parliament for the Labour Party for the Birmingham, Hodge Hill constituency. ... Clint Dolezel is a former Arena Football League quarterback, who in a career lasting ten years, played for the Milwaukee Mustangs, Texas Terror, Grand Rapids Rampage, and the Las Vegas Gladiators. ... Robert Hall (2 May 1764 - 21 February 1831) was an English Baptist minister. ... Todd Layne Hammel(Born:December 7,1966,in Durant,Oklahoma) is an Arena Football League quarterback for the Chicago Rush. ...

External links

• AFL Official Website
• ArenaFan Online