The New Orleans Night were an

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(AFL) team that competed in the

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and 1992 AFL seasons and were based in

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. The team was officially announced at a press conference on March 18, 1991. On April 9, the name Night was unveiled as was

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, former head coach of the

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, as head coach.

History

The Night played their home games inside the massive

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, also home of the NFL

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, which obviously had to be modified considerably to cut the playing surface and fan seating down to a size appropriate to fit arena football. The Superdome used its basketball configuration, previously used for the New Orleans Jazz NBA team and for some special

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games and tournament play, for arena football. Using this setup, the dome still had a capacity of 30,000 for the Night. Also, during the 1992 season, the Night used a huge blue curtain to close off the rest of the unused dome, to give a smaller arena feel to it. Team colors were Midnight

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, Sunset

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, and Moonlight

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. The Night wore Zubaz designed uniforms used during the 1991 season.Image of 1991 uniform
/ref> The team was disbanded after a winless 1992 season.

Notable players

Final roster

Individual Awards

All-Arena players

The following Night players were named to All-Arena Teams: *WR/DB

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(1) *OL/DL Johnny Sims (1), Doc Wise (1) *K Marco Morales (1)

Notable coaches

Head coaches

''Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 1992 Arena Football League season.''

Season-by-season

, - ,

, , 4 , , 6 , , 0 , , , , , - , 1992 , , 0 , , 10 , , 0 , , , , , - !Totals , , 4 , , 16 , , 0 , , , colspan="2", , -

Media

* The team appeared on the game ''

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'' as a hidden bonus team.

References

External links

New Orleans Night at ArenaFan.com
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