The Macon Steel was a professional indoor football team based in

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. The team played most of the 2012 season as a member of

American Indoor Football American Indoor Football (AIF) was 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 ...

. The Steel played its home games at the

Macon Coliseum The Macon Coliseum is a multi-purpose arena in Macon, Georgia, United States. It is home to the Macon Mayhem, a minor-league hockey team in the Southern Professional Hockey League. The Centerplex was home to the Macon Whoopee (ECHL), Macon Whoopee ...

. The Macon Steel folded on May 6, 2012, due to financial difficulties. At the time, then-Steel head coach Ervin Bryson announced he was going to form a new American Indoor Football team for Macon called the Macon Irons to start play in 2013, but the team never came to fruition. The Steel was the second arena/indoor football team to be based in Macon, following the

af2 The AF2 (often styled as af2, and short for arenafootball2) was the Arena Football League's developmental league; it was founded in 1999 and played its first season in 2000. Like its parent AFL, the AF2 played using the same arena football ru ...

Macon Knights The Macon Knights were a professional arena football team, playing in the af2 league. They were a 2001 expansion member of af2. They played their home games at Macon Coliseum. The Knights were owned and operated by Beverly Olson. The Knights were ...

, which played from

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until

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. Macon would not get another indoor football team until the

Georgia Doom The Georgia Doom were a professional indoor football team based out of Macon, Georgia. They play their home games at Macon Coliseum. They started as a midseason road team filling in for the folded Dayton Wolfpack in the National Arena League in 20 ...

began play in 2018.

Season-by-season

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Regular season

References

External links

Macon Irons Facebook page

American Indoor Football official Website
American football teams in Georgia (U.S. state) Former American Indoor Football teams Sports in Macon, Georgia American football teams established in 2012 American football teams disestablished in 2012 2012 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) 2012 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state) {{GeorgiaUS-sport-team-stub