Georgia Rampage

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Georgia Rampage
Established 2011
Play in Dalton, Georgia
at the Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center
GeorgiaRampage.jpg
League/conference affiliations
Ultimate Indoor Football League (2012–2013)
  • Southern Conference (2012)
X-League Indoor Football (2014–2015)
Current uniform
Team colorsBlack & Red   
Personnel
Owner(s)Amer W. Awad
Kacee Smith
General managerKacee Smith
Head coachMark Branutt
Team history
  • Rome River Dogs (planning stages)
  • Rome Rampage (2012)
  • Georgia Rampage (2013–2015)
Championships
League championships (0)
Conference championships (0)
Division championships (0)
Home arena(s)

The Georgia Rampage were a professional indoor football team based in Dalton, Georgia. They were members of X-League Indoor Football (X-League). The Rampage joined the X-League in 2014, after a few members of the Ultimate Indoor Football League (UIFL) had planned on making a new league. The Rampage originally began play in 2012 as an expansion team of the UIFL, going by the name of the Rome Rampage. The Rampage played their home games at the Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center in Dalton.

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Franchise history

The team was initially named the Rome River Dogs, but licensing issues forced the name change (which licensing issues are unknown, however, as the team would have been the first indoor/arena team named the River Dogs, while most notably the Arena Football League had the Grand Rapids Rampage.) [1]

The Rampage was originally based in Rome, Georgia and became Rome's second indoor football team; their first since the Rome Renegades which played in the National Indoor Football League for 2005 and later the American Indoor Football League for 2006 (In both leagues, they went to the championship game, losing both times). The Rampage is Dalton's first indoor football team.

The Rampage is owned by Amer W. Awad and Kacee Smith (who also owns the North Georgia Bulldogs semi-pro team).

2012

On June 7, 2011, Joe Micco was named the first head coach in Rampage history. [2] The Rampage were originally owned by Cecil Van Dyke with Kacee Smith as the general manager. However, a few weeks before the start of the season, Van Dyke was arrested for theft by taking putting the Rampage's season in doubt. After the arrest, Smith did all he could to save the season but was unable to find the funding to do so on a full scale, instead making the team a travel team in order to keep the Rampage name alive. While doing his personal taxes, Smith ran into Amer W. Awad who at the time was the office manager for Liberty Tax Service in Calhoun, Georgia. Awad inquired about potentially becoming a business partner stating he had always wanted to own a football team. After months of dialogue and attending the April 15, 2012 game versus the Eastern Kentucky Drillers, Awad and Smith came to an agreement and became business partners moving the team to Dalton. The partnership will officially begin with the 2013 season.

2013

With the new ownership of Kacee Smith and Amer Awad, the Rampage moved to Dalton, Georgia, where they changed their name to the Georgia Rampage. [3] During an October press conference, the team announced that Mark Bramblett as the franchise's second ever head coach. [3]

2014

For the 2014 season, the Rampage was a charter member of the X-League Indoor Football. [4]

Logos

Roster

Georgia Rampage roster
Quarterbacks
  • 12Telford Chatman

Running backs

  • 15Fred Brown
  • 43Anthony London

Wide receivers

  •  3C. J. Dial
  •  0Michael Figgars
  • 11Erik Jones
  • 28Travis Ledbetter
  •  1DeMarcus Simons
Offensive linemen
  • 60Bobby Johnson
  • 71Domineek King
  • 69Chris Love
  • 77Ray Robinson

Defensive linemen

  • 55Allen Craine
  • 99Prentice Hollins
  •  2Byron Stewart
  • 57Lamond Williams
Linebackers
  • 15Tevin Pullum
  •  9Steven Stone]

Defensive backs

  •  5Patches Burgess
  •  7Rother Heard
  • 13Akeen Scruggs
  • 21Aldrickious Shumate
  •  5Jerrard Turant

Kickers

  • currently vacant
Injury reserve

Exempt list

  • currently vacant

Transfer list

  • 31Deah Zindani

rookies in italics
Roster updated January 19, 2015
23 Active, 0 Inactive

Season-by-season results

League ChampionsConference ChampionsDivision ChampionsWild Card BerthLeague Leader
Season Team League Conference Division Regular season Postseason results
FinishWinsLossesTies
2012 2012 UIFL Southern4th160
2013 2013 UIFL 4th350
2014 2014 X-League 4th251
2015 2015 X-League 8th260
Totals8221All-time regular season record (2012-2015)
00-All-time postseason record (2012–2015)
8221All-time regular season and postseason record (2012–2015)

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References

  1. ↑ "Rome indoor football team changes name to Rome Rampage". Rome Times-Tribune. May 24, 2011. Archived from the original on August 24, 2011. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ Rampage Introduce Coaches
  3. 1 2 Devin Golden (October 12, 2012). "Georgia Rampage coach: Team will shoot for the title". The Daily Citizen. Retrieved October 12, 2012.
  4. ↑ Golden, Devin (2013-05-25). "Going Xtreme: Rampage will help form new indoor league". The Daily Citizen . Retrieved 2013-05-27.
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