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18-635: The Tarpons were Estero's second indoor football team; their first since arenafootball2 's Florida Firecats which played from 2001 until the af2's demise in 2009. In addition, they are the fourth indoor football team in the Cape Coral-Fort Myers metropolitan area , with them and the Firecats joining the unrelated Fort Myers Tarpons which played in the National Indoor Football League 's final season of 2007 and

36-882: A convention center , arena and theater . Formerly, it was the home of the Lakeland Magic , the Orlando Magic 's affiliate in the NBA G League and the Florida Tropics SC of the Major Arena Soccer League . In 1991 the venue truly became one of the greats with Slayer's Decade of Aggression live album recorded there. It was home to the Lakeland Loggerheads of the World Hockey Association 2 during

54-667: The Florida Stingrays which played the 2008 American Indoor Football Association season. (Both teams played at the Lee County Civic Center ). The founders of the Tarpons are Andrew and Leah Haines and Michael & Anna Taylor. The Tarpons moved to Lakeland prior to the 2019 season. In July 2011, the Florida Tarpons were announced as an expansion team for the 2012 UIFL season . On July 6, 2011,

72-554: The Florida Tarpons of the American Arena League relocated to Lakeland to use the arena for its home games. The Tampa Bay Rowdies of the defunct North American Soccer League used the arena for indoor soccer on several occasions including three of their sixteen home games during the 1983-84 indoor season. This would also prove to be the league's final indoor campaign before suspending operations following

90-669: The RP Funding Center after their lease in Estero expired. The Tarpons opened the season on the road with a 48–21 loss to the Atlanta Havoc . The following week they traveled to play the High Country Grizzlies , but the game was cancelled at the last minute due to winter weather and the game was not rescheduled. They played their first game at RP Funding Center on April 14, a 58–20 loss in a rematch with

108-679: The Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League after the Tarpons season ended. On October 7, 2015, the Tarpons announced that they were joining American Indoor Football . On July 18, 2016, the AIF ceased operations, leaving the Tarpons without a league. On October 20, 2016, the Tarpons were added to the Arena Developmental League (ADL) for the league's inaugural 2017 season. However, on November 10,

126-630: The 1984 outdoor season. In 1975 and 1976 the arena hosted National Hockey League exhibition matches between the Minnesota North Stars and the Atlanta Flames . Atlanta won both matches by the scores of 3–2 and 5–2, respectively. Beginning with their inaugural season (1992–93), the Tampa Bay Lightning used the center for training camp and exhibition games for several years. On September 23, 1992, hockey history

144-957: The 2003–04 season, the Lakeland Thunderbolts of the National Indoor Football League and later the American Indoor Football Association from 2005 until 2007, the Lakeland Raiders of the Ultimate Indoor Football League (later to be known as the Florida Marine Raiders of X-League Indoor Football ) from 2012 until 2015, and the Central Florida Jaguars of the American Indoor Football in 2016. In 2018,

162-626: The Fire's website, which itself eventually suspended. A Gulf Coast Tarpons was announced as a team in the International Football Alliance , but was removed shortly after announcement. The following is a list of all Tarpons players who have won league awards: Head coach Offensive coaches Defensive coaches Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2018 American Arena League season Arenafootball2 Too Many Requests If you report this error to

180-631: The Lakeland Tarpons. The Tarpons' ownership was also reorganized, with Micheal Taylor joined by former owner Andrew Haines, as well as Gary Tufford, Kacee Smith, and other locals. The new ownership group then announced on September 13, 2018, that they were launching their own league, called the A-League , to begin play in 2019 with several Florida-based teams, including the Gulf Coast Fire, Manatee Neptunes and Sarasota BigCats. However,

198-644: The Roughriders 61–75. During the 2017 APF season, the league announced it would be merging with the Can-Am Indoor Football League to create the American Arena League (AAL) for the 2018 season. By the end of the 2017 season, the Tarpons and Roughriders were to only teams that had played a complete season in the APF and both teams joined the AAL. The Tarpons relocated to Lakeland, Florida , and

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216-732: The Tarpons announced they had joined the new Arena Pro Football (APF) instead and the ADL was soon renamed National Arena League upon the addition of the Jacksonville Sharks . The Tarpons would play their first APF game against the Alabama Outlawz , also formerly of the X-League. The Tarpons won 42–18. At the end of the season, the Tarpons and the Richmond Roughriders played for the APF championship, losing to

234-711: The Tarpons named, UIFL Co-Founder, Michael Taylor, as the team's inaugural head coach. The Tarpons went undefeated during the regular season, and advanced to Ultimate Bowl II after defeating the Lakeland Raiders in the UIFL South Finals. The Tarpons lost Ultimate Bowl II to the Cincinnati Commandos . Four players from the Tarpons 2012 roster were invited/signed to NFL Rookie Mini Camps: DL Joshua Long, WR Dwayne Frampton, DB Willie Williams, and DB E.J. Whitley. WR Carlos Singleton signed with

252-710: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.150 via cp1114 cp1114, Varnish XID 937693728 Upstream caches: cp1114 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:52:03 GMT RP Funding Center The RP Funding Center (formerly the Lakeland Civic Center and the Lakeland Center ) is a multipurpose entertainment complex in Lakeland, Florida , comprising

270-670: The previous season's APF champions, the Richmond Roughriders . The Tarpons would not win their first game until a 50–20 win over an AAL-affiliated travel-only team, the Austin Wild, on May 5. After another win over an AAL travel-only team, the Peach State Cats, the Tarpons were to travel to play the Georgia Doom in Macon, Georgia. However, the Tarpons then cancelled all remaining away games and announced their final game of

288-461: The season was initially pushed back and then scheduled to only have games at RP Funding Center and Hertz Arena over several weeks in May and June 2019. In May 2019, the Tarpons and all games at RP Funding Center were removed from the schedule. The Gulf Coast Fire went undefeated and won the league championship, but after the season ended all other A-League websites, including the Tarpons, were redirected

306-467: The season would be at home against the Upstate Dragons on May 26. The Dragons then announced they would not travel to Lakeland and the Tarpons would then play the semi-professional Gulf Coast Tigers, thus ending their AAL season with a 2–3 record in league games actually played and a final league record of 3–5 after the various forfeits. After one season in central Florida, the team rebranded as

324-660: Was made as Manon Rhéaume became the first woman to play in an NHL exhibition game as the Tampa Bay Lightning played against the St. Louis Blues . Elvis Presley played the Civic Center on April 27, 1975 (two shows, a matinee and an evening performance) and another evening performance on April 28, 1975. He played the center again a year later on September 4, 1976 (two performances, a matinee and an evening show). Kiss performed here in 1976 when guitarist Ace Frehley

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