Nashville Venom

Nashville Venom
Founded 2013
Current season 2015
League PIFL (2014–present)
Team history Nashville Venom (2014–present)
Based in Nashville, Tennessee
Arena Nashville Municipal Auditorium
Colors Green, Silver, Black, White
                   
Owner(s) Jeff Knight
Terry Burns
Head coach Billy Back
General Manager Billy Back
Championships (1)
2014
Conference titles (1)
American: 2014
Playoff berths (1)
2014
Dancers Snake Charmers
Mascot Freddie Fangs
Website Official website

The Nashville Venom is a professional indoor football team, one of eight franchises of the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL).[1] Based in Nashville, Tennessee, the Venom are members of the American Conference. The team began play in 2014 as an expansion team. The team plays at Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, which opened in 1962.

The Venom are the second indoor/arena football team to call Nashville home, and the first since the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats (1997–2001 and 2005–07).

Franchise history

2014

In November, 2012, it was announced that the Venom would be the eighth and final expansion team of the Professional Indoor Football League for the 2014 season.[2] A few days after being introduced it was announced by Managing Partne Jeff Knight that Billy Back would be the first coach in Venom history.[3] The Venom began their inaugural season on March 29, 2014, in Huntsville, Alabama against the Alabama Hammers. Their first home game was on April 5, against the Harrisburg Stampede.[4] The Venom finished the regular season 10-2, the best record in the league, and won the American Conference regular season title. Their 9 All-PIFL selected players were the most of any team.[5] In the American Conference Championship Game, the Venom defeated the Columbus Lions 44-39 to advance to PIFL Cup III.[6] On July 12, 2014, the Venom won their first PIFL Cup Championship, defeating the Lehigh Valley Steelhawks 64-43.[7]

Players of note

Current roster

Nashville Venom roster
Quarterbacks.
  •  1 Charles McCullum

Running Backs

  • Currently vacant

Wide Receivers

  • 14 Darrell Holmes
  •  4 Jordan Jolly
  •  5 George Murray
  • -- Dontel Watkins
Offensive Linemen
  • 99 Stanlee Bradley
  • 55 Jeremy Buchanan
  • 72 Anthony Jackson
  • -- Sean Kennedy
  • 71 Jordan Mosley
  • 85 B. J. Taylor

Defensive Linemen

  •  8 Brian Ellis
  • 42 Danny Farr
  •  7 James Frazier
  • 77 Walter Thomas
Linebackers
  • 11 Douglas Rippy
  •  6 Amius Smith
  • 33 Steven Turner

Defensive Backs

  •  2 Jamie Graham
  • 16 Will Johnson
  • -- C. J. Jones
  • 20 Corry Stewart
  • 24 Kenny Veal
  • 21 Kenny Walton
  • 18 Mike Whittaker

Kickers

  • 38 Christian Reed
Injured Reserve
  • 12 Zach Ducker QB/WR
  •  9 Jihad Morris DB

Exempt List

Left Squad

  • 61 Harris Bivin OL
  • -- Mon Williams LB

Failure to report

  • -- Joseph Dienye DL
  • -- Terrence McCrae WR

Rookies in italics
Roster updated April 28, 2015
26 Active, 8 Inactive

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Awards and honors

The following is a list of all Venom players who have won league awards:

Season Player Position Award
2014 Phillip Barnett Wide Receiver Offensive Player of the Year

All-League players

The following Venom players have been named to All-League Teams:

Head coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through Week 6 of the 2015 PIFL season.

Name Term Regular Season Playoffs Awards
W L T Win% W L
Billy Back 2014–present 13 4 0 .765 2 0 PIFL Coach of the Year (2014)

Coaching staff

Nashville Venom staff
Front Office
  • Owner - Jeff Knight
  • Owner - Terry Burns
  • General Manager - Billy Back
  • Vice President of Public Relations - Clay Edwards
  • Assistant General Manager/Director of Gameday Operations - Tyler Bryant

Head Coach

  • Head Coach/Offensive Coordinator - Billy Back
   Offensive Coaches
  • Fullbacks - Leslie Woodard
  • Wide Receivers – Tim Medlin
  • Offensive Line – James Jenkins
  • Offensive Assistant - Cody Ross

Defensive Coaches

  • Defensive Coordinator - Terrance Quattlebaum
  • Special Defensive Assistant – Chris Taylor
  • Defensive Line - Tramont Lawless
  • Secondary – Cromwell Stewart

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
2014 2014 PIFL American 1st 10 2 0 Won American Conference Championship 44-39 vs. Columbus
Won PIFL Cup III 64-34 vs. Lehigh Valley
2015 2015 PIFL 3 2 0
Totals 13 4 0 All-time regular season record (2014—2015)
2 0 - All-time postseason record (2014—2015)
15 4 0 All-time regular season and postseason record (2014—2015)

* Season currently in progress

References

  1. ↑ Hester, Matthew. "PIFL Sinks Their Fangs Into Nashville." Professional Indoor Football League. November 11, 2013. Retrieved November 11, 2013.
  2. ↑ J. R. Lind (November 9, 2013). "Indoor football set to return to Nashville". www.nashvillepost.com. SouthComm Inc. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
  3. ↑ Audra Martin (November 12, 2013). "Indoor football returns to Nashville". www.wkrn.com. WorldNow and WKRN. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
  4. ↑ "2014 Regular Season Schedule." Nashville Venom. 2013. Retrieved on November 11, 2013.
  5. ↑ "2014 All-PIFL Teams Announced". www.oursportscentral.com. OurSports Central. July 7, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ Lauren Moore. "Nashville Venom advance to PIFL title game". www.tennessean.com. The Tennessean. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
  7. ↑ Lauren Moore (July 13, 2014). "Nashville Venom win first indoor football title". www.tennessean.com. The Tennessean. Retrieved July 14, 2014.

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