Pittsburgh Gladiators
| Tampa Bay Storm | |||||
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Established 1987 Play in Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida TampaBayStorm.com |
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Arena Football League (1987–present)
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| Team colors | Blue, Gold, White |
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| Mascot | Storm Dawg | ||||
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| Owner(s) | Tampa Bay Sports and Entertainment | ||||
| Chairman | Jeffrey Vinik | ||||
| President | Derrick Brooks | ||||
| Head coach | Ron James | ||||
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League championships (5) 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2003 |
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Conference championships (1) |
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Division championships (5) |
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| Playoff appearances (23) | |||||
| 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 | |||||
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Arena Football League (1987–present)
Conference championships (1)
2010
Division championships (5)
The Tampa Bay Storm are a professional arena football team based in Tampa, Florida, U.S. The team, along with the Chicago Bruisers, Denver Dynamite and Washington Commandos, joined the AFL as one of the charter franchises, and is the only one of the four still operating.
The franchise was originally located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and known as the Pittsburgh Gladiators. The franchise relocated to Tampa Bay in 1991, changing its name in the process. The team played in St. Petersburg from 1991–1996, then in Tampa until 2008, after which point the AFL suspended operations and did not return until the 2010 season following the league's restructuring. It has been in the same city for longer than any other AFL team. During its tenure the franchise won five ArenaBowl championships. With 231 wins at the end of the 2016 season, the Storm has won far more games than any other team in AFL history. However, the current decade has not proven kind to the Storm as the team's last winning record was in the 2010 season.
The club is currently owned by Jeffrey Vinik, also the owner of the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning. Home games are played at the Amalie Arena in Tampa.
The name "Tampa Bay" is often used to describe a geographic metropolitan area which encompasses the cities around the body of water known as Tampa Bay, including Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Bradenton and Sarasota. Unlike in the case of Green Bay, Wisconsin, there is no municipality known as "Tampa Bay". The "Tampa Bay" in the names of local professional sports franchises (Storm, Buccaneers, Rowdies, Rays, Lightning, etc.) denotes that they represent the entire region, not just Tampa or St. Petersburg.
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