The Dallas Rage was an expansion team in the
National Women's Football Association
The National Women's Football Association (NWFA) was a full-contact American football league for women headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The league was founded by Catherine Masters in 2000, as the two benchmark teams, the Alabama Renegade ...
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In its 2005 inaugural season, the Dallas Rage compiled a 6–2 regular season record including an upset defeat of the previously undefeated
Oklahoma City Lightning
The Oklahoma City Lightning is a full-contact women's American football team in the Women's Spring Football League based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Home games are played at Taft Stadium.
Formerly a member of the Independent Women's Football L ...
. The Dallas Rage made it to the first round of playoffs in their first season, losing 14–16 to the Chattanooga Locomotion.
In 2006, the team compiled only a 4–4 regular season record but featured the league's leading passer (Jennifer Hull) and leading sacker (Twyla Smith), who were both nominated as finalists for the league's overall offensive and defensive MVPs, respectively.
In 2007, the team amassed a 2–6 record but shut down before completing the 2007 regular season.
In 2008, the Dallas Rage became the North Texas Fury and played in the National Women's Football Association. The North Texas Fury organization completed the 2008 season, but then ceased to exist. Many of the core players from the North Texas Fury then became a part of a new organization known as the
Lone Star Mustangs
The Lone Star Mustangs are a team of the Women's Football Alliance. Based in Bedford Texas (part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex), the Mustangs play their home games at Pennington Field (the campus was formerly M.B. Smiley High School).
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. The Lone Star Mustangs play in the
Women's Football Alliance
The Women's Football Alliance (WFA) is a semi-pro full-contact women's American football league in the United States. Founded in 2009, it is the largest 11-on-11 football league for women in the world, and the longest running active women's ...
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Season-By-Season
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Chattanooga
Chattanooga ( ) is a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. It is located along the Tennessee River and borders Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the south. With a population of 181,099 in 2020, it is Tennessee ...
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, 2008 , , 1 , , 6 , , 1 , , 4th Southern Central , , --
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References
National Women's Football Association teams
Rage
Rage may refer to:
* Rage (emotion), an intense form of anger
Games
* Rage (collectible card game), a collectible card game
* Rage (trick-taking card game), a commercial variant of the card game Oh Hell
* ''Rage'' (video game), a 2011 first- ...
2005 establishments in Texas
2008 disestablishments in Texas
American football teams established in 2005
American football teams disestablished in 2008
Defunct American football teams in Texas
Women's sports in Dallas
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