Boise Burn

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Boise Burn

Conference	American
Division	Western
Year founded	2006
Home arena	Qwest Arena
City, State	Boise, Idaho
Indoor football championships	none

The Boise Burn is an arena football team based in Boise, Idaho. The Burn will begin play in the af2 league in March 2007. Home games will be played at the Qwest Arena in downtown Boise.

1 Team history
2 2007 Season
3 Season-By-Season
4 External link

[edit] Team history

From left to right: Lee Marks, Bart Hendricks and Tim Gilligan.

June 6, 2006: af2 officals announced a Boise expansion franchise for the 2007 season
June 28: The unnamed team announced that former Utah Blaze assistant coach Lee Leslie would serve as head coach.
July 27: The Idaho Statesman newspaper announced a "name-the-team" contest.
August 25: Balloting for the contest closed.
August 27: A poll was started. The "final six" choices were:
- Blast
- Bruisers
- Cutthroats
- Rapids
- Sawtooths
- Wildfire
October 10: Announced team name as the Boise Burn to pay tribute to local firefighters.
October 25: Logo (a flaming skull clenching a football in its teeth) & colors (red, orange, and silver) released, first 4 players signed are QB Bart Hendricks, RB Lee Marks, WR Tim Gilligan, and K Dan Beardall.

[edit] 2007 Season

Home games are in bold

Friday March 30th: Louisville

Friday April 13th: Quad City

Saturday April 21st: Everett

Saturday April 28th: Oklahoma City

Saturday May 5th: Bakersfield

Saturday May 12th: Central Valley

Saturday May 19th: Spokane

Saturday May 26th: Stockton

Saturday June 9th: Everett

Saturday June 16th: Rio Grande Valley

Saturday June 23rd: Spokane

Saturday June 30th: Tri-Cities

Saturday July 7th: Bakersfield

Saturday July 14th: Stockton

Saturday July 21st: Central Valley

Saturday July 28th: Tri-Cities

[edit] Season-By-Season

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties

Season	W	L	T	Finish	Playoff Results
2007	--	--	--	--	--

[edit] External link

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