Quad City Steamwheelers

Conference	American
Division	Midwestern
Year founded	1999
Home arena	The MARK of the Quad Cities
City, State	Moline, Illinois
Indoor football championships	2000, 2001

The Quad City Steamwheelers are a professional arena football team. They are a charter member of the af2. They play their home games at The MARK of the Quad Cities in Moline, Illinois. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... The MARK of the Quad Cities The MARK of the Quad Cities is a 9,200-seat multi-purpose arena in Moline, Illinois. ... Moline is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. ... Arena football is a sport invented by Jim Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League. ... af2 (short for arenafootball2) is the name of the Arena Football Leagues minor league, which started play in 2000. ... The MARK of the Quad Cities The MARK of the Quad Cities is a 9,200-seat multi-purpose arena in Moline, Illinois. ... Moline is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. ...

The team was founded on September 1, 1999 when the Quad Cities was awarded an Arena Football Franchise. Managing Owner Jim Foster coined the team's nickname. The Steamwheelers played its inaugural season in 2000 and dominated the league for its first two seasons. They went a perfect 19-0 in 2000 behind coach Frank Haege, even winning one game by a score of 103-3, en route to capturing the first-ever ArenaCup Championship. In 2001, the Steamwheelers nearly repeated that accomplishment by finishing 18-1 and winning a second-straight league title. However, the Steamwheelers were banned from the 2002 playoffs for salary cap violations under Haege. Subsequent seasons in 2002, 2003, and 2004 were still successful as they clinched two more division titles. However, the team failed to win any additional league championships and lost 14 games over that three-year span. The I-74 Bridge, connecting Bettendorf, Iowa and Moline, Illinois is located near the geographic center of the Quad Cities. ... Jim Foster is the founder of the Arena Football League in 1987. ... In professional sports, a salary cap (often called a wage cap in the United Kingdom) is a limit on the amount of money a team can spend on player salaries, either as a per-player limit or a total limit for the teams roster (or both). ...

Season-by-season

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

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External links

• Quad City SteamWheelers' Main Web-Site
• Quad City SteamWheelers on ArenaFan.com
• Quad City Steamwheelers on ArenaFootballNetwork.com
• Quad City SteamWheelers' Fan Club Website