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i was just wandering how many people have been to a beef game and are regulars, if not you should at least see one game
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Drowning_in_the_Sea_of_Red
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It's an Arena Football team in Omaha...I believe...The Omaha Beef...
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Eric the Red
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where do they play
cmb23
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I'm reading this going "Are these guys being smartasses or serious?". But then I have to remind myself just because this is a Husker fan site, doesn't mean that everyone is from within 1 hour of Omaha.
So if you are seriously wondering:
Omaha Beef
The team has had several University of Nebraska (Lincoln and Omaha) players including Calvin Jones, Clinton Childs, Vershon Jackson, Dwayne Harris, Jamar Day, and more. I believe that Tony Veland is still an assistant coach for the team.
From Wikipedia:
The Omaha Beef are a professional indoor football team. They are a member of the United Indoor Football League. They play their home games at Omaha Civic Auditorium.
Omaha originally played in the Indoor Professional Football League in 2000 and 2001 as an expansion team before moving to the National Indoor Football League in 2002. The Beef then joined the newly formed United Indoor Football in 2005 as a charter member.
This is the Omaha Beef's seventh season of indoor football. The Beef will again be playing in the United Indoor Football. The UIF allows the Omaha Beef to play against some of the best indoor competition in the country today.
The Omaha Beef are in a division with the Sioux City Bandits and the Sioux Falls Storm. These three teams have had some very heated battles in their times together since the NIFL. The three cities have shown they value the I-29 rivalries that exist in that they have followed one another through multiple leagues to stay in competition.
So far, in their existance, the Beef have made the playoffs every season, but they have yet to win a league championship.
Also what makes the Beef organization different is they have the only male dance team, the Rumproasters, along with a female dance team, the Prime dancers. The Rumproasters, men of all different sizes, have been with the team since its inception. The Rumproasters perform routines from Grease all the way to Hip Hop, making them the Max Patkin of the organiztion. The Rumproasters are also considered the ambassadors of the organization due to such commitment and chartible events they participate in.
The Prime dancers have won several awards including the UIF best dance team twice. They are ambassadors for the Beef organization as well and perform in conjuction with the Rumproasters including a routine for the last regular season home game which is ballroom dancing.
The mascot for the Beef is an angus bull named Sir Loin. He has won mascot of the year twice in UIF and is a fan favorite.
Season-By-Season
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties
Season W L T Finish Playoff Results
Omaha Beef (IPFL)
2000 9 7 0 2nd League Lost Semifinal (Mississippi)
2001 15 1 0 1st League Lost IPFL Championship (Tennessee)
Omaha Beef (NIFL)
2002 9 5 0 2nd Pacific Northern Lost Round 1 (Bismarck)
2003 11 3 0 1st Pacific Northern Won Round 1 (Bismarck)
Lost Semifinal (Utah)
2004 9 5 0 2nd Pacific North Won PC Round 1 (Sioux City)
Lost PC Semifinal (Billings)
Omaha Beef (UIF)
2005 9 6 0 2nd North Lost Round 1 (Sioux Falls)
2006 8 8 0 2nd West Lost Round 1 (Evansville)
2007 -- -- -- -- --
Totals 72 42 0 (including playoffs)
So if you are seriously wondering:
Omaha Beef
The team has had several University of Nebraska (Lincoln and Omaha) players including Calvin Jones, Clinton Childs, Vershon Jackson, Dwayne Harris, Jamar Day, and more. I believe that Tony Veland is still an assistant coach for the team.
From Wikipedia:
The Omaha Beef are a professional indoor football team. They are a member of the United Indoor Football League. They play their home games at Omaha Civic Auditorium.
Omaha originally played in the Indoor Professional Football League in 2000 and 2001 as an expansion team before moving to the National Indoor Football League in 2002. The Beef then joined the newly formed United Indoor Football in 2005 as a charter member.
This is the Omaha Beef's seventh season of indoor football. The Beef will again be playing in the United Indoor Football. The UIF allows the Omaha Beef to play against some of the best indoor competition in the country today.
The Omaha Beef are in a division with the Sioux City Bandits and the Sioux Falls Storm. These three teams have had some very heated battles in their times together since the NIFL. The three cities have shown they value the I-29 rivalries that exist in that they have followed one another through multiple leagues to stay in competition.
So far, in their existance, the Beef have made the playoffs every season, but they have yet to win a league championship.
Also what makes the Beef organization different is they have the only male dance team, the Rumproasters, along with a female dance team, the Prime dancers. The Rumproasters, men of all different sizes, have been with the team since its inception. The Rumproasters perform routines from Grease all the way to Hip Hop, making them the Max Patkin of the organiztion. The Rumproasters are also considered the ambassadors of the organization due to such commitment and chartible events they participate in.
The Prime dancers have won several awards including the UIF best dance team twice. They are ambassadors for the Beef organization as well and perform in conjuction with the Rumproasters including a routine for the last regular season home game which is ballroom dancing.
The mascot for the Beef is an angus bull named Sir Loin. He has won mascot of the year twice in UIF and is a fan favorite.
Season-By-Season
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties
Season W L T Finish Playoff Results
Omaha Beef (IPFL)
2000 9 7 0 2nd League Lost Semifinal (Mississippi)
2001 15 1 0 1st League Lost IPFL Championship (Tennessee)
Omaha Beef (NIFL)
2002 9 5 0 2nd Pacific Northern Lost Round 1 (Bismarck)
2003 11 3 0 1st Pacific Northern Won Round 1 (Bismarck)
Lost Semifinal (Utah)
2004 9 5 0 2nd Pacific North Won PC Round 1 (Sioux City)
Lost PC Semifinal (Billings)
Omaha Beef (UIF)
2005 9 6 0 2nd North Lost Round 1 (Sioux Falls)
2006 8 8 0 2nd West Lost Round 1 (Evansville)
2007 -- -- -- -- --
Totals 72 42 0 (including playoffs)
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ohiohusker
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I just noticed the Beef are going to play here in July against the Ohio Valley Greyhouds. It's in Wheeling and I live about 20 minutes away. Thinking about going. I know the rules are different etc. Are there any local guys playing? Is it interesting to watch?
He may have been operations, I thought he might have been a coach too. I know he used to come into my brother in law's bar with the rest of the players after games.
cmb23
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I think that Arena Football games are fun to watch...especially in person. It is a very quick/fast-paced game, not a lot of down time and the players are 'right there' in front of you as opposed to 100 yards away in a big stadium. The game has been around obviously for quite awhile, but the amount of coverage they are getting now from ESPN and NBC is really making this a big sport.
No the players aren't the best in the world...especially when you get out of the AFL (Arena Football League) which is the top arena league, and into the smaller indoor leagues. But they are still better players than any of us have ever been. You may only recognize a few names...if any at all. But if you like speed and hard hitting in a confined area with lots of scoring (40-70 points a game is pretty common...for each team) this is a thing you should check out.
Some of the different rules are cool too. Like: 1: Receivers can be in motion running towards the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped (he's at full speed when the play starts) 2: The 'boards' are not out of bounds unless you go over them or are stopped/pinned against them (a player can bounce off a board and keep going) 3: The ball is live if a FG or XP is missed and bounces off one of the net/cord walls on either side of the goalpost (which is 9' wide).
I say all this and I've only been to 3 arena games in my life. But it's a good substitute when all that's on TV is baseball.
**I think I need to get a marketing job for one of the arena leagues....I made that sound good!