Founded | 2008 |
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Colors | Midnight Blue, Vegas Gold, Cardinal red, white |
Head coach | Jordan Kopac |
Dancers | Pepsi Max Wild Things |
Mascot | Alpha |
Year Founded | |
2009 | |
Year Folded | |
2010 | |
City | |
Madison, Wisconsin | |
League/Conference affiliations | |
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League titles | |
None | |
Home arenas | |
Veterans Memorial Coliseum (2009) | |
Hartmeyer Arena (2010) |
Year founded | |
2008 | |
Year folded | |
2011 | |
League/Conference affiliations | |
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Titles | |
Mid-States Tournament Champions: 2010 | |
Home fields | |
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The Wisconsin Wolfpack was an American football franchise based in Wisconsin. The Wolfpack name and brand was used for two teams: an indoor football team in the Continental Indoor Football League and a traditional (outdoor) football team in the Mid Continental Football League.
The indoor team played its home games at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin in its inaugural season of 2009, but moved to the Hartmeyer Arena for the 2010 season. The outdoor team was somewhat nomadic throughout its history with regards to where it played its home games, however, outdoor games were generally played in the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
Prior to the Wolfpack franchise's 2008 outdoor campaign, the Milwaukee Bonecrushers of the Continental Indoor Football League approached the Wolfpack coaches and staff and asked them to assist with the completion of their 2008 season following Gilbert Brown's decision to resign as head coach and the resulting resignation of most of the Bonecrushers' staff. Kopac assumed the role of general manager for the Bonecrushers, and brought with him the core coaches of the Wolfpack outdoor team that would later become the core of the Wolfpack indoor team. Kopac led the team to its only win, a 51-46 victory of the Muskegon Thunder.
With infrastructure already in place from the outdoor team, and following the previous year's experience with the Bonecrushers, Wolfpack management announced in early 2009 it would field both indoor and outdoor teams that year. To start the indoor team, Kopac coordinated with Lowe Entertainment, owners of the Rock River Raptors, also in the CIFL, to have Lowe run the indoor franchise while retaining Kopac as head coach. The Wolfpack were Madison's second indoor football franchise and the first to call Madison home since the Madison Mad Dogs folded in 2001.