The Shreveport Rouxgaroux are a professional indoor football team of the

National Arena League The National Arena League (NAL) is a professional indoor football league that began play in 2017. As of the end of the 2024 season, the league consisted of five teams. A team's typical payroll budget is $600,000 per season, but as of the 2022 ...

scheduled to begin play for its 2025 season. Based in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Rouxgaroux will play their home games at

Hirsch Memorial Coliseum Hirsch Memorial Coliseum is 10,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Shreveport, Louisiana, designed by the late local architect Edward F. Neild Jr. (1908–1958) who, with his father in 1937, had designed the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum in Shrevepo ...

History

On July 31, 2024, the Rouxgaroux announced their intentions to begin play in 2025 at Hirsch Coliseum, with further details coming at a press conference in two weeks. On August 15, the NAL officially announced the Rouxgaroux as their newest team, with veteran indoor football coach James Hampton serving as the team's inaugural head coach. The Rouxgaroux will be the first indoor football team to play in the city of Shreveport since the

Shreveport-Bossier Bombers The Shreveport-Bossier Bombers were an indoor football team of the Indoor Professional Football League (IPFL) in 2000. The Bombers, based out of Shreveport, LA/ Bossier City, LA, were one of four IPFL expansion teams for that season. They play ...

played their only season as a member of the

Indoor Professional Football League The Indoor Professional Football League (IPFL) was the new incarnation of the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL), which started in 1998. Two of its teams (the Madison Mad Dogs and the Green Bay Bombers) left the league and their owner ...

in 2000; coincidentally, the Bombers' fellow 2000 IPFL expansion team the

Omaha Beef The Omaha Beef are a professional indoor American football, indoor football team based in Omaha, Nebraska. The Beef plays their home games at Liberty First Credit Union Arena in nearby Ralston, Nebraska, Ralston. The Beef competes in the National ...

still exists to this very day (as the longest continuously running indoor football team in history), and are the Rouxgaroux's NAL leaguemates and defending champions. In addition, the Rouxgaroux will be the first indoor/arena team to play in the

Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, officially designated Shreveport–Bossier City by the Office of Management and Budget, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, or simply Greater Shreveport, is a metropolitan statistical area in Nor ...

since the Bossier–Shreveport Battle Wings played from 2001 to 2010 as a member of 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 r ...

and the

Arena Football League The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 Arena Football League season, 1987 season, making it the third longest-runnin ...

Team nickname etymology

The Rouxgaroux are named after the mythical beast of Cajun folklore similar to a werewolf. Team owner Keith Carter told of the legends of parents and grandparents warning their children to get in bed lest the rouxgaroux "get them," as well as farmers who believe the rouxgaroux was responsible for their cattle's death, pointing out his team will continue that legacy particularly against the Omaha Beef.

Current roster

References

External links

Official Website
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