The Las Vegas Sin was a team in the

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, primarily based in

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. The Sin was originally announced in 2006 as one of four expansion teams to be included in the 2008 Lingerie Bowl along with the

Atlanta Steam The Atlanta Steam is a women's American football team of the Legends Football League (LFL) based in Duluth, Georgia, a Gwinnett County suburb of Atlanta, with home games at the Infinite Energy Arena. The Steam was the league's 14th team and played ...

, Miami Caliente and San Francisco Seduction. The 2008 event was cancelled and the organization then launched the

Lingerie Football League The Extreme Football League (X League) is an American women's semi-professional tackle football league. The league was originally founded in 2009 as the Lingerie Football League (LFL), and later rebranded as the Legends Football League in 2013. ...

(LFL) in 2009. When the league began play in the 2009–10 season, the Sin were not included as one of the ten inaugural franchises. The 2010–11 LFL season's championship, still called the Lingerie Bowl, was held at the

Thomas & Mack Center The Thomas & Mack Center is a multi-purpose arena located on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada. It is home of the UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team of the Mountain West Conference. History The facility was ...

in Las Vegas, with the announced intention of establishing the Sin for 2011. The confirmation of the Sin came in December 2010. They played their first season at

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. The LFL rebranded to the Legends Football League after the team's first season and shifted to a spring and summer schedule in 2013. In 2014, the Sin moved their home games to the Thomas & Mack Center. On January 27, 2015, the league announced that the Sin would be playing at

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, for the 2015 season due to the Thomas & Mack Center undergoing renovations during the season. They had planned to return for 2016 season, but were suspended indefinitely due to an inability to find a suitable host venue.

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* Legends Football League US teams American football teams in the Las Vegas Valley American football teams established in 2008 2008 establishments in Nevada Women's sports in Nevada {{Nevada-sport-team-stub