A Indiana Firebirds were the team in the Arena Football League. A team was depending within Indianapolis, Indiana. Residence games were played at a Conseco Fieldhouse, also a page of the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association. A team was depending inside Albany, New York from 1990 to 2000. At that period personal games were played at a Pepsi Arena. When a move, a Firebirds competed in the Central Section of the AFL's U.s. Conference.

A Firebirds won a 1999 ArenaBowl championship.

A 2004 Firebirds just missed the playoffs fallowing a unsatisfying 0-Five run. Yet, it finished the year winning eight of the their previous eleven games & were considered by a select few a expected competition for the 2005 Arena Bowl championship led by 2004 Rookie of the Month, quarterback Adrian McPherson.

Nevertheless, around early September of 2004, Indiana Firebirds owner Dave Lageschulte announced that his company, Lags Footbwholly LLC, would prevent all business operations for the Firebirds. Lageschulte experienced been actively, however unsuccessfully, pursuing local investors to choose a Firebirds since he got assumed ownership around 2002.

In September 20, 2004, a date of a proclaimed sales deadline, a Arena Football League announced the termination of the Firebirds franchise & that the players would exist as mass produced available to continuing AFL teams within an expansion draft. But, in a week a team was purchased by Scott & Todd Hines, world health organization do H3 Sportsgear, a sportsgear company depending inside Indianapolis. By having AFL approval, it was hoped that a Firebirds can remawithin operational in Indianapolis. However a AFL checks background & fiscal qualifications prior to approving any fresh team ownership. This move was in a end disapproved, & the roll of previous Firebirds players were manufactured available in the diffusiin draft conducted on October 14, 2004, marking a prevent of one of the AFL's longest-running off franchises.

Notable Players

Greg Hopkins, Wide Receiver/Linebacker 1996-2001 Mike Horacek, Offensive specialist 2004 Kyle Mackey, Quarterback 1990 Adrian McPherson, Quarterback 2004 David Patten, Wide Receiver Mike Pawlawski, Quarterback 1996-2000 Raymond Philyaw, Quarterback 2000-2003 Reggie Smith, Wide Receiver/Defensive back 1990 Leroy Thompson, Fullback/Linebacker 1996-2004