The Augusta Colts were a professional indoor football team based in

Augusta, Georgia Augusta is a city on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. The city lies directly across the Savannah River from North Augusta, South Carolina at the head of its navigable portion. Augusta, the third mos ...

. The team played their home games at the James Brown Arena.

History

The Colts originally began in 2006 as the Augusta Spartans of the American Indoor Football League. After a mediocre season, they played in the

World Indoor Football League The World Indoor Football League was an indoor football league that was to begin in 1988 to compete with the Arena Football League, which was playing its second season in 1988. Some of the teams in the league ran into financial trouble before t ...

in 2007. During the year, the Spartans went 8–6, defeated the Osceola Ghostriders in the opening round of the playoffs, and won the World Indoor Bowl over the Columbus Lions. Wide receiver Marvin Stone was named the 2007 league MVP and received the Javan Camon Award. For the 2008, the team moved back to the renamed

American Indoor Football Association American Indoor Football (AIF) is a professional indoor football league, one of the several regional professional indoor football leagues in North America. The AIFL began as a regional league with six franchises on the East Coast of the United ...

and renamed themselves the Augusta Colts. In a press release, it was announced that the Colts would sit out the 2009 season, but planned to return for the 2010 season. Another press release then reported that for the 2010 season, the Colts would join the Southern Indoor Football League.Colts work to return in 2010
/ref> On November 16, 2009, a group of investors held a press conference with John Sisson saying that they had purchased the team. However, on December 5, 2009, the deal could not be reached and the group deciding to start a new team in Augusta as a member of the SIFL. The Colts were suspended indefinitely.

Season-by-season

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Won World Indoor Bowl I ( Columbus) , - , colspan="6" align="center" , Augusta Colts (AIFA) , - , 2008 , , 7 , , 7 , , 0 , , 3rd WC Southern , , — , - !Totals , , 22 , , 22 , , 0 , colspan="2", (including playoffs)

References

External links

Official website

Augusta Colts' Myspace page

Colts' 2008 stats

Spartans change to the Colts
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