Georgia Rampage

Georgia Rampage
Founded 2011
League UIFL (2012-2013)
X-League (2014-present)
Team history Rome River Dogs (planning stages)
Rome Rampage (2012)
Georgia Rampage (2013-present)
Based in Dalton, Georgia
Arena Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center (2013-present)
Forum Civic Center (2012)
Colors Red and Black
Owner(s) Amer W. Awad & Kacee Smith
Head coach Mark Bramblett
General Manager Kacee Smith
Championships (0)
Conference titles (0)
Playoff berths (0)

The Georgia Rampage are a professional indoor football team based in Dalton, Georgia. They are 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 originially began play in 2012 as an expansion team of the UIFL, going by the name of the Rome Rampage. The Rampage plays their home games at the Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention Center in Dalton.

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.

Regular season schedule

Date Opponent Home/Away Result
March 3 Mississippi Hound Dogs Away L 24-63
March 10 Lakeland Raiders Away W 35-30
March 23 Mississippi Hound Dogs Away L 6-53
April 6 Florida Tarpons Away L 7-60
April 15 Eastern Kentucky Drillers Away L 20-82
April 27 Lakeland Raiders Away L 6-106
May 21 Florida Tarpons Away L 2-68

Standings

2012 United Indoor Football League
Team Conference Overall
W L PCT W L PCT PF PA
Northern Conference
Cincinnati Commandos-y 8 2 .800 10 2 .833 709 465
Erie Explosion-x 8 3 .727 8 4 .667 788 423
Marion Blue Racers-x 6 4 .600 7 4 .636 602 467
Johnstown Generals 2 6 .250 2 6 .250 231 434
Western Pennsylvania Sting 0 5 .000 0 6 .000 125 464
Southern Conference
Florida Tarpons-y 11 0 1.000 12 1 .923 791 377
Eastern Kentucky Drillers 5 4 .556 6 4 .600 613 361
Lakeland Raiders-x 5 6 .455 6 6 .500 668 442
Rome Rampage 1 6 .143 1 6 .143 100 462
Mississippi Hound Dogs 1 8 .111 1 8 .111 243 471

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]

Regular season schedule

Date Opponent Home/Away Result
March 4 Lakeland Raiders Home L 25-74
March 17 Corpus Christi Fury Away L 47-58
March 25 Missouri Monsters Home W 25-18
March 30 Sarasota Thunder Home W 58-19
April 8 Corpus Christi Fury Home L 36-44
April 19 Florida Tarpons Away L 14-43
April 27 Missouri Monsters Away L 59-65 (OT)

2014

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

Logos

Current roster

Georgia Rampage roster
Quarterbacks
  • 12 Telford Chatman

Running Backs

  • 15 Fred Brown
  • 43 Anthony London

Wide Receivers

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

Defensive Linemen

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

Defensive Backs

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

Kickers

  • Currently vacant
 Injury Reserve

Exempt List

  • Currently vacant

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

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Statistics and records

Season-by-season results

Note: The Finish, Wins, Losses, and Ties columns list regular season results and exclude any postseason play.

League Champions Conference Champions Division Champions Wild Card Berth League Leader
Season Team League Conference Division Regular season Postseason Results
Finish Wins Losses Ties
2012 2012 UIFL Southern 4th 1 6 0
2013 2013 UIFL 4th 3 5 0
2014 2014 X-League 4th 2 5 1
2015 2015 X-League 1 3 0
Totals 7 19 1 All-time regular season record (2012-2015)
0 0 - All-time postseason record (2012–2015)
7 19 1 All-time regular season and postseason record (2012–2015)

References

  1. ↑ "Rome indoor football team changes name to Rome Rampage". Rome Times-Tribune. May 24, 2011. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ Rampage Introduce Coaches
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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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