The Miami Caliente was a
women's American football
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team in the
Lingerie Football League
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based in the
Miami
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area. They were part of the
Lingerie Bowl
The Legends Cup, originally known as the Lingerie Bowl, was the championship game of the LFL—originally the Lingerie Football League and later the Legends Football League—which operated from 2009 to 2019. It was a game of full-contact American ...
's expansion into a full-fledged league in 2009 with home games at the
BankAtlantic Center
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in
Sunrise, Florida
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History
Early history
In ...
. Head coach
Bob Hewko was a
quarterback
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for the
University of Florida
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and a back-up quarterback for the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers (colloquially known as the Bucs) are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC S ...
.
On November 13, 2009, Taira Turley and Tina Caccavale were ejected from a game for fighting when a multiple-player brawl, instigated by Morgan McGrath, erupted near the end of the game against the
New York Majesty
The New York Majesty was a women's American football team based in Reading, Pennsylvania, that played for only the 2009–10 season as a member of the Eastern Conference of the Lingerie Football League (LFL). The team was the successor to the Ne ...
. Krystal Gray of the Majesty was also ejected and suspended for one game.
The Caliente reached the 2009–10 Eastern Conference championship game on February 4, 2010, at the
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in
Hollywood, Florida
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, but lost 20–7 to the
Chicago Bliss
The Chicago Bliss were a women's American football team based in the Chicago area. The Bliss were one of the first four teams to participate in the Lingerie Bowl and were carried over to the formation of the Lingerie Football League (LFL) in 200 ...
.
The Caliente played one more season, moving outdoors to
FIU Stadium
Pitbull Stadium is a college football and soccer stadium on the campus of Florida International University (FIU) in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida with a Miami mailing address. It is the home stadium of the FIU Panthers football tea ...
, before ceasing operations in 2011.
Roster
References
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Legends Football League US teams
American football teams in Florida
Caliente
American football teams established in 2009
2009 establishments in Florida
Women's sports in Miami