2014 Georgia Fire season explained

Team:Georgia Fire
Year:2014
Record:4–8
Conference Place:3rd
Coach:Cosmo Dematteo
General Manager:Jeff Gonos
Owner:PIFL
Stadium:Forum Civic Center
Playoffs:did not qualify
No Prevseason:true
No Nextseason:true

The 2014 Georgia Fire season was the first season as a professional indoor football franchise and their first in the Professional Indoor Football League. One of 8 teams that competed in the PIFL for the 2014 season.

With complications surrounding the Albany Panthers franchise for the 2014 season, the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL) introduced the Fire to replace the Panthers for the 2014 season. With the league running the team, PIFL Executive Director, Jeff Ganos was named the franchise's general manager and Cosmo DeMatteo was named the team's innaurgal head coach on February 27, 2014.[1] With the season starting on April 5, 2014, the Fire were given the Panthers roster, where players who didn't wish to play for the new franchise, refused to report.[2] In the first game in franchise history, the Fire knocked off defending PIFL Champions, the Alabama Hammers by a score of 57–55.[3] The Fire finished the season 4–8, failing to make the playoffs.

Schedule

Key:

Regular season

All start times are local to home team

WeekDayDateKickoffOpponentResultsLocation
ScoreRecord
1colSpan=7 BYE
2SaturdayApril 57:30pmAlabama HammersW 67–651–0Forum Civic Center
3FridayApril 117:30pmat Columbus LionsL 34–711–1Columbus Civic Center
4colSpan=7 BYE
5SaturdayApril 267:00pmat Columbus LionsL 41–631–2Columbus Civic Center
6SaturdayMay 37:30pmNashville VenomW 49–422–2Forum Civic Center
7SaturdayMay 107:05pmat Nashville VenomW 58–563–2Nashville Municipal Auditorium
8SaturdayMay 177:05pmat Harrisburg StampedeL 64–723–3Giant Center
9SaturdayMay 247:00pmat Alabama HammersL 21–393–4Von Braun Center
10SundayJune 11:00pmRichmond RaidersL 53–723–5Forum Civic Center
11SaturdayJune 77:30pmNashville VenomL 39–733–6Forum Civic Center
12SaturdayJune 147:30pmLehigh Valley SteelhawksL 57–63 OT3–7Forum Civic Center
13SaturdayJune 217:00pmat Trenton FreedomW 52–494–7Sun National Bank Center
14FridayJune 277:30pmColumbus LionsL 55–694–8Forum Civic Center

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: DeMatteo and Gonos to Lead Fire . February 27, 2014 . OurSports Central . www.oursportscentral.com . April 22, 2014.
  2. Web site: Fire to have first training camp this week . March 19, 2014 . Rome News-Tribune . www.northwestgeorgianews.com . April 22, 2014.
  3. Web site: Fire Burn Hammers For Inaugural Win . April 7, 2014 . OurSports Central . www.oursportscentral.com . April 22, 2014.