Cadence Bank Arena , formerly Tupelo Coliseum , BancorpSouth Center and BancorpSouth Arena is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena , near downtown Tupelo, Mississippi , named for the locally based Cadence Bank , a large multi-state commercial banking company.
10-706: It was the home of the Tupelo FireAnts and Mississippi MudCats arena football and the Tupelo T-Rex ice hockey teams. It was also the home of the Mississippi Hound Dogs of the Ultimate Indoor Football League . The $ 16 million, 32,000 sq ft (3,000 m) facility was built in 1993, and is one of the more modern arenas serving a small market in the mid-south . Its lot was previously occupied by
20-512: A shopping mall called Downtown Mall. When the mall closed in 1990 the arena was retrofitted from the old building. The arena also seats 8,000 for sports events, ranging from basketball to rodeos . The arena has also hosted the Harlem Globetrotters on several occasions. One Memphis Pharaohs (Arena Football League) home game was held there in 1996. The arena can be scaled down to 4,500 for theater-style concerts. The arena
30-566: A mostly complete schedule, with few cancellations. Before the 2005 season, nine teams left the league to form United Indoor Football . That same year, the Intense Football League ceased operations and four teams from there joined the league. Those teams however, left the league before the 2006 season started. For the 2005 season, the NIFL had an agreement with NFL to handle referee assignment and training. The 2006 season,
40-626: Is also used for trade shows and conventions (33,800 sq ft [3,140 m]) of exhibit space plus 5,000 sq ft (460 m) of meeting space). On November 14, 2008, the arena hosted the Mississippi State Bulldogs club hockey team in a game against the Loyola University New Orleans club in the arena's first venture into ice hockey since the T-Rex left in 2003. On November 21, 2010,
50-520: The Arena Football League or its developmental league, AF2 , however, that changed briefly with their expansion into AFL markets such as Atlanta , Denver , and Los Angeles, and AF2 markets such as Fort Myers and Houston . Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur , Buffalo Bills running back Fred Jackson , New Orleans Saints quarterback John Fourcade and Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl running back Bam Morris , all played in
60-689: The 2017 season. As of June 2016, the league was looking for local team ownership under the league's business model. San Diego Shockwave The San Diego Shockwave were an indoor football team based in San Diego, California , that competed in the National Indoor Football League . The team played its home games at Viejas Arena , home of the San Diego State Aztecs basketball teams. The Shockwave were founded as an expansion franchise in 2007. The team
70-757: The BancorpSouth Arena hosted a college basketball game featuring the Memphis Tigers and the LSU Tigers . This article about a sports venue in Mississippi is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tupelo FireAnts The National Indoor Football League ( NIFL ) was a professional indoor football league in the United States. For their first six years, the league had teams in markets not covered by either
80-562: The NIFL. The league folded in 2008. The NIFL, based in Lafayette, Louisiana , was founded by Carolyn Shiver. The league started operations in 2001, with many teams coming from Indoor Football League being bought the previous year and folding operations. In 2002, the league added in the teams from the Indoor Professional Football League . 2003 was the most successful year for the league as 24 teams played
90-416: The returning teams. However, the teams were all poorly funded and had problems fielding competitive squads. The San Diego Shockwave were declared the official league champion. The league then officially folded prior to the 2008 season. In 2016, a new website announced that the league operations were relaunched by Carolyn Shiver with announced goal of bringing 34 teams into the former AFL markets starting in
100-522: Was the most chaotic for the league to that point. Ten expansion teams were added to the league, but nine of them had problems that reflected badly on the league. The most notable situation was the owner of the Montgomery Maulers firing the entire team. None of the ten expansion teams returned to the league for the next season. The 2007 season started with the addition of several league-owned expansion teams, primarily to supplement games with
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