The Nashville Kats is the Arena Football League team, located in Nashville, Tennessee. They were last trained by Pat Sperduto, who trained the team's original incarnation for two ArenaBowl appearances before moving to Atlanta in 2002 (later Georgia Force). Sperduto also trained the second incarnation of Nashville Kats after they returned to the Arena Football League as an expansion team in 2005.
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Asli Nashville Kats (1997-2001)
The team started as Nashville Kats in 1997. The franchise is a Denver Dynamite Arena charter team, which has not played since 1991. The original kats were played at the then-named Nashville Arena (AKA "The Alley") in downtown Nashville. The team is named for the 1967 hit "Nashville Cats" by The Lovin 'Spoonful. The team logo featured an anthropomorphic tab wearing a 1950s-style leather jacket, holding the guitar neck in one claw and juggling the ball with the others.
Kats was initially trained by Eddie Khayat in 1997 and 1998, with the help of Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden as the offensive coordinator in his first coach position. Gruden then returned actively playing with Orlando Predators and his brother Jon's assistant, then head coach NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who played in the AFL out of season. Khayat was replaced as head coach of Kats by Pat Sperduto for team time balance in Nashville (incl. Incarnation of both teams). The Kats are the League of the Year Organization for their first year in 1997, and are in the playoffs for each season of their relatively short existence. The team's success in the playoffs led to successive appearances at ArenaBowl (XIV and XV) respectively from the last two seasons of the original team, although they were unable to win the AFL championship in good form.
After not being able to reach a favorable agreement with the management of the arena controlled by the main tenant venue, Predator Nashville of the National Hockey League, majority owner Mark Bloom sold the franchise in December 2001 to Virgil Williams, an Atlanta businessman, nearly $ 10 million. The departure of the team from the Nashville market was not related to the lack of success either on the pitch, or at the box office, where they were a draw for some of Arena's ongoing football teams, but their inability to negotiate a lucrative lease with the Predator. After moving to Atlanta, this team will be renamed the Georgia Force.
The birth of the expansion of Nashville Kats (2001-2005)
Shortly after the departure of the original team from Nashville, Bud Adams, owner of Tennessee Titans of the National Football League, bought the rights to a franchise expansion in Nashville (along with Kats identity). Initially, Adams was unable to negotiate a lease with Nashville Predators to return the team to the Gaylord Entertainment Center (now called the Bridgestone Arena and formerly the Nashville Arena) on terms that it deems to be quite profitable. Because the Nashville Municipal Auditorium and Vanderbilt's Memorial Gym, the only other large indoor space in Nashville, is not suitable for football arenas (the Municipal Auditorium floor is too small to hold the playground because the ice hockey arena is always less than the size regulation and Vanderbilt has a policy alcoholic "alcohol" for athletic events on campus), Adams explores the idea of ​​building his own medium arena (about 10,000 seats) to host Kats and compete with the Gaylord Entertainment Center for smaller concerts and sporting events. In the end, the Predator agreed a deal with Adams during the summer of 2004. Following a new agreement, Adams announced that Kats expansion would start playing for the 2005 season and would return to the home team's original arena.
While most of the new team is owned by Adams, country music singer Tim McGraw was taken as a minority investor. McGraw, his wife, Faith Hill, and their children are often seen in the first row of side seats along the southern endzone. As a tie-in with McGraw, PA system played his hit "I Like It, I Love It" after Kats touchdown.
New Kats takes up field (2005-2007)
The second incarnation of Nashville Kats began playing in 2005 at the Gaylord Entertainment Center, home of the original Kats team. When Kats was revived as an expansion team, the new team assumed a return from the Georgia Army all the history of the Nashville Kats before moving to Atlanta. This is a setting similar to that made in NFL with Cleveland Browns and in CFL with Montreal Alouettes. The revived logo is almost identical to the original logo. The notable exception is the ball (which is drawn as a lighter, brown ball with the blue line used in the AFL at the time) and the logo color scheme, which is slightly modified to reflect the team colors of the Tennessee Titans. The new team uniforms also adopted the Tennessee Titans color scheme, going from the dark blue/silver/white combination of the original team to the new scheme including the light blue/red/white "Titans". The new team also introduced a mascot in a new arena named Kool Kat , a cat wearing a uniform and shorts that often do brave stunts during breaks in the game.
The first season of the new Kats started with a scene. After the opening victory on the road, it can take up to 8 weeks for the franchise to record another win. But after that, Kats won the next five games, and finished the season with a 6-9-1 record. The 41-41 tie at Dallas Desperados on April 8 was only the second in AFL history, and prompted the League to change overtime rules to eliminate ties prior to the start of the 2006 season.
Nashville ended its 2006 regular season with a record of 8-8; good enough to get the team where playoff. The Kats lost in the opening round to the Chicago Rush.
Kats ended the 2007 season with a 7-9 record and only missed the playoffs after Utah Blaze's victory in the final week of the season.
On October 10, 2007, after months of speculation, owner Bud Adams decided to close operations for the second time in the history of the Nashville Kats. Although ticket sales were initially good, the team struggled at the box office after a poor performance in the 2005 season (the first season of the expansion team).
The team was not mentioned as a possible addition to the AFL raised in 2010, although fans have been clamoring for Kats' return in some form to the renamed Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.
In 2014, a new indoor soccer team starts playing at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium as Nashville Venom at PIFL (Professional Indoor Football League), bringing the excitement of professional indoor football back to Music City. Although this team won the league championship earlier in the season as a member, it disappeared (along with the league as a whole) after the 2015 season. By 2017 there has been no further effort to revive indoor football in the Nashville market.
Maps Nashville Kats
Head coach
Famous player
Arena Football Hall of Famers
Individual rewards
All-Arena player
Pemain Kats berikut dinamai Tim All-Arena:
- FB Dan Alexander (1)
- FB/LB Rupert Grant (1)
- WR/DB Darryl Hammond (1), Jarrick Hillery (1)
- WR/LB Cory Fleming (2)
- OL/DL James Baron (5), Joe Minucci (1)
- DB Ahmad Hawkins (1)
- DS Jamie Coleman (1), Corey Johnson (1), Kahlil Carter (1)
Pemain All-Ironman
Pemain Force berikut diberi nama untuk Tim All-Ironman:
- WR/DB Jarrick Hillery (1)
- WR/LB Cory Fleming (1), Darryl Hammond (2)
- OL/DL James Barron (2)
Pemain All-Rookie
The following Kats player is named Team All-Rookie:
- FB/LB Travis Reece, Dan Alexander, Frank Carter
- WR/DB Tyronne Jones, Corey Johnson, Jarrick Hillery
- WR Kenny Higgins
- OL/DL Aaron Hamilton, Aaron McConnell, Joe Minucci
Season-to-season
References
External links
- Nashville Kats at ArenaFan.com
- Nashville Kats (1997-2001) at ArenaFan.com
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