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Arena Football League The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 season, making it the third longest-running professional football league in ...
team which operated for a single season,
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, in the National Conference. The league did not want to abandon the idea of having a franchise in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, a major
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, after the demise of the Dallas Texans (1990–1993), and granted a new franchise to an ownership group in
Fort Worth Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. Accord ...
. The team was owned by Peter "Woody" Kern and led by head coach
Michael Trigg Michael Scott Trigg is a former American football quarterback and head coach in the Arena Football League (AFL). He played college football at East Texas State University. Early years Trigg lettered in football, basketball and baseball at Theod ...
. The team struggled with ticket sales and financial issues lead to the team being folded after the 1994 season.


History

In December 1993, the Arena Football League announced that Fort Worth would join the league as one of three expansion teams for 1994. The Fort Worth Cavalry franchise was owned by businessman and minor-league baseball team owner Peter "Woody" Kern. The Fort Worth franchise replaced the Dallas Texans as the Metroplex's Arena League representative. Kern folded the team after the 1994 season due to attendance and revenue problems then, in 1995, sold the franchise to concert promoter Doug Logan and purchased a majority stake in the rival
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. The team struggled to find buyers for
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s. In addition to ongoing season-ticket sales, the club began selling single-game tickets for the 1994 season on May 2, 1994. To drum up regional interest in the team and the sport, the Cavalry's first pre-season game was played at the
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in
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. The game was one of four exhibition games played by AFL teams in non-AFL cities in 1994. Halftime festivities included a tribute to longtime
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coach Barry Switzer, then recently named as head coach of the
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. The Cavalry played their regular season home games at the Tarrant County Convention Center. All but the final home game were played on Monday nights due to other events tying up more lucrative weekend dates. They ended the season with the lowest home attendance of any AFL team in 1994. On the field, however, they were somewhat successful, advancing to the playoffs after finishing one game under .500 in the regular season. They lost to the
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in the first round of the playoffs and were disbanded shortly thereafter.


Off-field moves

Fort Worth hired Arena Football League veteran
Michael Trigg Michael Scott Trigg is a former American football quarterback and head coach in the Arena Football League (AFL). He played college football at East Texas State University. Early years Trigg lettered in football, basketball and baseball at Theod ...
as its head coach. Trigg played college football at
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and as a quarterback led the
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to the 1989 and 1990 Arena Bowl championships. After Trigg retired as a player, he spent two seasons as an assistant coach at ETSU and three seasons as offensive coordinator for the AFL's Dallas Texans. After the financial collapse of the Cavalry after the 1994 season, Trigg moved on to become the head coach of the Milwaukee Mustangs in 1995. In his role as the team's general manager, Trigg hired NFL veteran
Tate Randle Tate Randle (born August 15, 1959 in Fredericksburg, Texas) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League and the Arena Football League. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the eight round of the 1982 NFL Draft. He p ...
as defensive coordinator, Marshall Foreman as special-teams coach, and Terry Gray as coach of the offensive and defensive lines as well as director of player personnel. Controversy erupted when fans found out that one of the team's largest advertisers was Club Legends, a "totally nude" female
strip club A strip club is a venue where strippers provide adult entertainment, predominantly in the form of striptease or other erotic or exotic dances. Strip clubs typically adopt a nightclub or bar style, and can also adopt a theatre or cabaret-style ...
in neighboring Arlington. The strip club's promotional efforts included having its female employees wearing Club Legends T-shirts around the arena and a sideline advertisement urging Cavalry fans to "Call 1-800-NUDE BAR".


Roster moves

On December 13, 1993, the Cavalry, Las Vegas Sting, and Milwaukee Mustangs participated in the 1994 AFL Expansion Draft. Fort Worth acquired 16 players, one in each round, including 9 former Dallas Texans. One of these, then-current
Dallas Cowboys The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East divis ...
player Lincoln Coleman, was chosen in the 16th round to secure his rights should the Cowboys release him. In late April 1994, Fort Worth signed Steve Berry to play wide receiver and defensive back. Berry was one of 30 prospective players (along with quarterbacks
Todd Hammel Todd Layne Hammel (born December 7, 1966) is a retired professional arena football player who played for 10 teams since his Arena Football League (AFL) career began in 1992. He is the great grandson of Oklahoma Indian Chief Quana Parker and a mem ...
and
Kyle Mackey Kyle Erickson Mackey (born March 2, 1962) is an American football coach and former quarterback who played for the New York Jets, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Eagles, and the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was also an Aren ...
plus wideout Robert Kirksey) in the Cavalry training camp and pre-season rosters. Before the regular season began, the roster was trimmed to the league maximum of 23 players. Ultimately, Mackey split the starting job at quarterback with Hammel who had played for the Texans under coach Michael Trigg the previous two seasons. Mackey was injured during a July 1994 game against the
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. After the Cavalry shut down, Hammel followed Trigg to the Milwaukee Mustangs for the 1995 season. After veteran kicker
Ian Howfield Ian Michael Howfield (born June 4, 1966) is a former American football placekicker who played in the National Football League (NFL) and Arena Football League (AFL). Howfield, who played college football at the University of Tennessee, is the so ...
departed for the
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of the
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just before the regular season started, the Cavalry signed local favorite Trey Weir as a replacement in late May 1994. Cut by the Colts in mid-June, Howfield returned to the Cavalry for the remainder of the season. Kelly Blackwell, a tight end for the
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in 1992 and
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in 1993, joined the Cavalry in June 1994. Blackwell has strong ties to the Fort Worth area having played
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at Richland High School and
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for
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.


Players

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Ian Howfield Ian Michael Howfield (born June 4, 1966) is a former American football placekicker who played in the National Football League (NFL) and Arena Football League (AFL). Howfield, who played college football at the University of Tennessee, is the so ...
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updated May 23, 1994
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Season-by-season

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Media

Todd Davis was the color analyst for the team's gameday radio broadcasts.
Home Sports Entertainment Bally Sports Southwest is a Texan regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group (a joint-venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios), and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts regional c ...
broadcast two of the Cavalry's regular season games: their home opener on May 23 against the Milwaukee Mustangs and the July 9th road game versus the
Albany Firebirds The Indiana Firebirds were a team in the Arena Football League. The team was based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Home games were played at the Conseco Fieldhouse, also the home of the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association and Indiana ...
. HSE also aired a weekly news program titled ''Fort Worth Cavalry Weekly Report'' each Friday at 6:30pm during the season.


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