The Arlington Renegades are a professional

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team based in

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. The team was founded as the Dallas Renegades by

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’s Alpha Entertainment and is an owned-and-operated member of the new

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owned by

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’s Alpha Acquico. The Renegades play their home games at

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. The team branding and imagery draws from the

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mythos. For sponsorship, The Renegades are sponsored by

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, a

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produced by

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History

2020 season

Dallas joined

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and

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as the league's inaugural cities. It was the first professional outdoor football team to play in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in a league other than the NFL since the Dallas Rockets and Fort Worth Braves of the

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folded midway through the 1971 season; the metro area has been represented by numerous

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teams, such as the

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and

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, and the Allen Wranglers and Texas Revolution. It entered a relatively crowded winter sports market against the

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, and

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. On February 7, 2019,

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, the longtime head coach of the

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team, was hired as the Dallas team's head coach. Stoops was the XFL's first head coaching hire. On April 23, 2019, Stoops named

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as his defensive coordinator. On May 16, 2019, Stoops named

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as his offensive coordinator. The Renegades' name, logo and colors were revealed August 21, 2019 along with the rest of the league's. On February 9, 2020, the Renegades played their first game, a 15-9 loss to the St. Louis BattleHawks. The Renegades are in-state rivals with the

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. Games between the two are marketed as the ''Texas Throwdown''. Dallas lost their first game, against the St. Louis BattleHawks, by a 15–9 final. Kicker

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tallied all of the Renegade points via field goals, but Dallas' failure to reach the end zone came back to haunt them, as St. Louis scored nine unanswered fourth quarter points to erase a slim deficit. Linebacker

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had 13 Dallas tackles, three for a loss. The Renegades picked up their first win on the road, a 25–18 triumph over the Los Angeles Wildcats. Running back

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reached the end zone three times on two touchdowns and a one-point conversion. His final score, a 17-yard scoring run in the penultimate minute, was the final blow in a fourth quarter that saw the two teams combined for 34 points. Another road victory awaited the Renegades in Week 3, as they topped the Seattle Dragons 24–12. Two MacGinnis field goals sandwiched a 65-yard touchdown pass from

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in a fourth quarter that saw Dallas break a 12–12 tie. Parham reached the end zone twice over the afternoon. In July 2022, Arlington was revealed as a team location for the

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, being announced as "Arlington" instead of "Dallas", and that Bob Stoops would return as the team's head coach. The team will be the league's flagship, with all teams practicing and residing in Arlington as part of an agreement with the city.

Players

Current roster

Staff

References

External links

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