Palm Beach Phantoms

Palm Beach Phantoms
Palm Beach Phantoms
	Established 2006; Folded 2007
League/conference affiliations
	National Indoor Football League (2006)
	Current uniform
Team colors	Purple, black;
Personnel
President	Michael Lind
Head coach	Ray Berger
Team history
	West Palm Beach Phantoms (2006); Palm Beach Phantoms (2012);
Championships
	League championships (0);
	Conference championships (0);
	Division championships (0);

The Palm Beach Phantoms were a professional

indoor football team that were members of the National Indoor Football League in 2006. A new team with the same name played two replacement games for the Ultimate Indoor Football League

in 2012.

History

Formed in time for the 2006 season, the West Palm Beach Phantoms were scheduled to play their home games at the Delray Beach Tennis Center in Delray Beach, Florida, which would have made them the first indoor football team to play in an outdoor venue. After losing their first two road contests, however, the Phantoms' first home game, scheduled for April 8, 2006, was called off due to a contract dispute.^[1] While the team's ownership tried to work out a deal with the tennis center, the Phantoms were sent wandering around the league as a road-only team.

The Phantoms managed one win in their history: a 43–41 win over the

Katy Copperheads

, marking the worst defeat in indoor/arena football history. Owner Michael Lind had seen enough, and the appropriately named Phantoms vanished, their final record 1–6.

A new indoor football team, the Palm Beach Waves, lasted just three games into the 2007 season before bailing out of the NIFL.

2012 revival

In 2012, the Palm Beach Phantoms name was revived for a proposed franchise in the

Lakeland Raiders

, in Lakeland. Unfortunately, the new Phantoms were no more successful than the old ones, losing 91–18 to Florida and 100–0 to Lakeland.

Outdoor and attempted relaunches

Since then, the Palm Beach Phantoms have played independently as a semi-professional team, often playing outdoors. Occasionally, they have been added as members of various startup leagues such as World Developmental Football League for 2015, Elite Indoor Football (a league set up by the

Arena Pro Football

(a league briefly associated with the EIFC) for 2017.

Along with their attempts at joining various leagues in 2017, they were scheduled to play a home-and-home preseason series with the Savannah Coastal Outlaws of Arena Pro Football. The Phantoms were listing their home field as the

Lakeland Center in the Lakeland, Florida (the home arena of the Central Florida Jaguars). However, the dates passed and no games were played with the Outlaws merely stating that they had been cancelled.^[2]

References

^ "Palm Beach Phantoms postpone debut". www.bizjournals.com/southflorida. The Business Journals Digital Network. April 7, 2006. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
^ "2017 Palm Beach Phantoms schedule". Elite Indoor Football Conference. Retrieved February 14, 2017.

[1] "Palm Beach Phantoms postpone debut". www.bizjournals.com/southflorida. The Business Journals Digital Network. April 7, 2006. Retrieved October 4, 2012.

[2] "2017 Palm Beach Phantoms schedule". Elite Indoor Football Conference. Retrieved February 14, 2017.

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