The Quad City Steamwheelers
are a professional arena football team. They are a charter member of the af2. They play their home games at i wireless Center in Moline, Illinois.
The team was founded on September 1, 1999 when the Quad Cities was awarded an arena football franchise. Managing Owner (and inventor of arena football) Jim Foster coined the team's nickname.
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Team history
Back-to-back ArenaCup wins
The Steamwheelers played their inaugural season in 2000 and dominated the league for its first two seasons. They went undefeated 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. During this two season span, the Steamwheelers set a record for the longest
winning streak in the af2 at 24 consecutive wins.
Banned from 2002 playoffs
Allegations of rules violations plagued the Steamwheelers during the second season and they were eventually banned from the 2002 playoffs for
salary cap violations under Haege.
Second coach
Coached by Rich Ingold from 2002-2004, the Steamwheelers 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. Ingold left the Steamwheelers after the 2004 season and was replaced by Rick Frazier, former coach for the
Milwaukee Mustangs of the
Arena Football League.
The 2006 season, under coach Frazier, was the first losing season for the franchise in its history.
New ownership
In October 2006, the league awarded the right to operate the franchise to a new ownership group. The resulting change in ownership oversaw the change in team leadership from Frazier to new head coach Sean Ponder. Ponder was the team's offensive coordinator during the 2006 season.
Season-by-season
Note:
W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties''
| Season
| W
| L
| T
| Finish
| Playoff results
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| 2000
| 16
| 0
| 0
| 1st NC
| Won Round 1 (Pensacola)
Won Semifinal (Norfolk)
Won ArenaCup I (Tennessee Valley)
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| 2001
| 15
| 1
| 0
| 1st NC Midwest
| Won Round 1 (Macon)
Won Semifinal (Carolina)
Won ArenaCup II (Richmond)
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| 2002
| 10
| 6
| 0
| 2nd NC Midwest
| Banned from playoffs
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| 2003
| 14
| 2
| 0
| 1st NC Midwest
| Lost NC Semifinal (Arkansas)
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| 2004
| 10
| 6
| 0
| 1st NC Midwest
| Lost NC Round 1 (Louisville)
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| 2005
| 9
| 7
| 0
| 3rd NC Midwest
| Lost NC Round 1 (Rio Grande Valley)
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| 2006
| 7
| 9
| 0
| 5th AC East
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| 2007
| 10
| 6
| 0
| 1st AC Midwest
| Lost AC Round 1 (Green Bay)
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| 2008
| 8
| 8
| 0
| 3rd AC Midwest
| Lost AC Round 1 (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton)
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| 4
| 3
| 0
| 1st AC Midwest
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| Totals
| 108
| 53
| 0
| (including playoffs)
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* = Current Standing