The Dayton Wolfpack were a professional indoor football team and a charter member of the National Arena League (NAL) in its inaugural 2017 season. Originally to be based in Dayton, Ohio, the Wolfpack had announced their home venue as the Nutter Center but apparently failed to reach a lease agreement. The Wolfpack were then listed as a traveling team by the NAL.
The Wolfpack would have been the sixth indoor football team to call Dayton home, following the Dayton Skyhawks of the original Indoor Football League (1999–2000), the Dayton Warbirds/Bulldogs of the National Indoor Football League (2005–2006), The Marshals also of the NIFL (2007), the Dayton Silverbacks of the Continental Indoor Football League (2011–2012) and finally the Dayton Sharks also of the CIFL (2013–2014).
History On August 11, 2016, the Arena Developmental League (which then became the National Arena League) officially announced the Wolfpack as its fourth charter team, following the previously announced Columbus Lions, High Country Grizzlies and Lehigh Valley Steelhawks. The team was originally announced to be led by head coach Derrick Shepard and owners Jerome and Jesse Clark.
Over social media, the owners of the Wolfpack announced they would be playing at the Nutter Center and the NAL made the schedule listing the Nutter as their home venue. Due to the Jacksonville Sharks needing to fulfill their previous eight home contract with their arena from their time in the Arena Football League, the Wolfpack and Corpus Christi Rage each were only scheduled for five home games, with four home games of the Wolfpack's falling on a Monday. However, by February 2017, several signed players reported over social media that they had all been released from their contracts due to lack of a home venue. By February 20, the NAL had removed their home games from the schedule, leaving the Wolfpack as a traveling team. Also over social media, Marcus Ray announced he would be operating the Wolfpack traveling team out of the Atlanta area for the season.
Later in the season, Erasmus Harvey announced his new team, the Georgia Doom, would play the Georgia Firebirds as the Dayton Wolfpack for the April 29 game in Albany.
The Wolfpack were not listed as members of the league after the NAL 2017 summer meetings concluded.
Season-by-season results League championsConference championsDivision championsPlayoff berthLeague leader
Season Team League Conference Division Regular season Postseason results Finish Wins Losses Ties 2017 2017 NAL 7th 0 7 0
2017 season
Schedule Key:
All start times were local time Week Day Date Kickoff Opponent Results Location Score Record 1 Sunday March 19 4:00pm at Lehigh Valley Steelhawks L 25–66 0–1 PPL Center 2 Monday March 27 7:00pm at Monterrey Steel L 24–61 0–2 Arena Monterrey 3 Saturday April 1 7:00pm at High Country Grizzles L 6–94 0–3 George M. Holmes Convocation Center 4 Monday April 10 7:05pm Monterrey SteelCancelled 5 Sunday April 16 7:05pm Corpus Christi RageCancelled 6 BYE 7 Saturday April 29 7:00pm at Georgia Firebirds L 32–35 0–4 Albany Civic Center 8 Saturday May 6 7:00pm at Lehigh Valley Steelhawks L 6–68 0–5 PPL Center 9 Monday May 15 7:05pm High Country GrizzliesCancelled 10 Saturday May 20 7:00pm at Columbus Lions L 0–77 0–6 Columbus Civic Center 11 Monday May 29 7:05pm Lehigh Valley SteelhawksCancelled 12 Saturday June 3 7:00pm at Jacksonville Sharks L 32–77 0–7 Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena 13 BYE 14 Monday June 19 7:05pm Lehigh Valley SteelhawksCancelled
Roster 2017 Dayton Wolfpack roster Quarterbacks
Fullbacks
Wide receivers Offensive linemen
Defensive linemen Linebackers
Defensive backs
Special teams Reserve lists
Rookies in italics Roster updated June 3, 2017 23 Active, 2 Inactive
References
External links Dayton Wolfpack official website