Rio Grande Valley Dorados | |
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Founded | 2004 |
Home arena | Dodge Arena |
City, State | Hidalgo, Texas |
Conference | National |
Division | Southwest |
ArenaCup championships | None |
Division titles | 2007 |
Playoff berths | 2005, 2007, 2009 |
The Rio Grande Valley Dorados were a professional arena football team. They began play in 2004 as an expansion member of af2, the minor league to the Arena Football League. They played their home games at Obra Homes Field at Dodge Arena in Hidalgo, Texas.
They have been fairly successful in their existence, having put together a 15 - 1 regular season in 2007 yet fell to Bossier-Shreveport in the American Conference Semifinals.
The team folded in 2009 after af2 folded. The now-defunct Arena Football League owned the rights to the Dorados name and logo as well.[1] They now belong to the new Arena Football 1 league.
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Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties
Season | W | L | T | Finish | Playoff results |
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2004 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 4th NC Southwest | -- |
2005 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 2nd NC West | Won NC Quarterfinal (Quad City) Won NC Semifinal (Tulsa) Lost NC Championship (Memphis) |
2006 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 4th NC Midwest | -- |
2007 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1st NC Southwest | Won Round 1 (Alabama) Lost AC Semifinals (Bossier-Shreveport) |
2008 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 3rd NC Southwest | -- |
*2009 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 3rd NC Southwest | Lost NC Round 1 (Bossier-Shreveport) |
Totals | 57 | 45 | 0 | (including playoffs)
The Dorados Are Now Defunct |
Uniform # | Player | Position | Height | Weight | College | Experience |
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1 | Rod Windsor | WR/LB | 6'2 | 208 | Western New Mexico | R |
2 | Travis McAlpine | WR/LB | 6'2 | 210 | Saginaw Valley St. | 5 |
3 | Anthony Chambers | WR/DB | 6'1 | 200 | Purdue | 3 |
5 | Donnell August | FB/LB | 6'3 | 240 | Western St. | R |
6 | Marcus Harris | FB/LB | 6'2 | 270 | East Central Oklahoma | 1 |
7 | Derrick Harris | WR/DB | 5'10 | 185 | Sam Houston St. | 2 |
8 | Rubio Radamez | K | 6'0 | 225 | Iberodamericana (Intl.-Mexico) | R |
9 | Bret Smith | WR/DB | 6'3 | 195 | Tennessee | R |
12 | Tiger Lyon | QB | 6'2 | 190 | Middlebury College | 1 |
17 | Nick Hill | QB | 6'3 | 215 | Southern Illinois | R |
22 | Dahnel Singfield | DB | 6'1 | 190 | Buffalo | 3 |
23 | Craig Turner | WR/DB | 5'9 | 197 | SIU Carbondale | R |
24 | Riley Swanson | WR/DB | 5'11 | 185 | Wake Forest | R |
34 | Alvertis Gatlin | FB/LB | 6'2 | 255 | Harding | 2 |
51 | Valentine Chude | FB/LB | 6'2 | 250 | Western New Mexico | R |
66 | Raushan Rowser | OL/DL | 6'4 | 300 | Tennessee St. | 2 |
71 | Darren Marquez | OL/DL | 6'4 | 295 | Southern Illinois | R |
72 | Garrett Mason | OL/DL | 6'5 | 315 | Duke | 1 |
77 | Walter Thomas | OL/DL | 6'5 | 350 | Oklahoma St. | R |
79 | Robert Nelson | OL/DL | 6'10 | 350 | Oklahoma St. | R |
90 | Christopher Eccles | OL/DL | 5'11 | 285 | Delta St. | R |
99 | David Miller | LB/DL | 6'4 | 260 | UAB | R |
-- | Alan Turner | WR | 6'0 | 200 | Southern Illinois | R |
This rivalry started heating up when Corpus Christi became a team in the af2, in 2007. The Inaugural game for Corpus Christi was on April 7, 2007. They hosted the heavily favored Rio Grande Valley Dorados. The Dorados romped the Sharks 66-28 in the first game ever for the Corpus Christi Sharks.
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