New Orleans Night

New Orleans Night
	Established 1991; Folded 1992; Played in Louisiana Superdome; in New Orleans
League/conference affiliations
	Arena Football League (1991–1992) American Conference (1991–1992) South Division (1992); ;
Team colors	Midnight blue, orange, white;
Personnel
Owner(s)	Mike McBath; Bill Hampton; David Briggs
Head coach	Vince Gibson
Team history
	New Orleans Night (1991–1992);
Championships
	League championships (0);
	Conference championships (0); Prior to 2005, the AFL did not have conference championship games
	Division championships (0);
Home arena(s)
	Louisiana Superdome (1991–1992);

The New Orleans Night were an Arena Football League (AFL) team that competed in the 1991 and 1992 AFL seasons and were based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The team was officially announced at a press conference on March 18, 1991.^[1] On April 9, the name Night was unveiled as was Eddie Khayat, former head coach of the Nashville Kats, as head coach.^[2]

History

The Night played their home games inside the massive Louisiana Superdome, also home of the NFL New Orleans Saints, which obviously had to be modified considerably to cut the playing surface and fan seating down to a size appropriate to fit arena football. The Superdome used its basketball configuration, previously used for the New Orleans Jazz NBA team and for some special college basketball games and tournament play, for arena football. Using this setup, the dome still had a capacity of 30,000 for the Night. Also, during the 1992 season, the Night used a huge blue curtain to close off the rest of the unused dome, to give a smaller arena feel to it. Team colors were Midnight Blue, Sunset Orange, and Moonlight White. The Night wore Zubaz designed uniforms used during the 1991 season.^[3]

The team was disbanded after a winless 1992 season.

Notable players

Final roster

New Orleans Night roster

Quarterbacks

-- Greg Freeman
-- Mickey Guidry
-- Danny Keeton

Wide receivers/Defensive backs

-- Brian Beck
-- Michael Clark
-- Sean Dykes
-- Wyatt Harris
-- LoLo James
-- James Jones
-- Thomas Monroe
-- Cedric Moses
-- Elliot Searcy
-- Todd Simmons
-- Darryl Tillman
-- Brian Wiggins
-- Alvin Williams

Running backs/Linebackers

-- Mike Lindsey
-- Kent Robertson

Offensive linemen/Defensive linemen

-- Jerry Bell
-- Eric Bias
-- Jim Bishop
-- Fred Davis
-- Lamar Davis
-- Matt Martinez
−− Mike McChesney
-- Darren Mullenberg
-- Carl Thomas
-- Gary Willison
-- Doc Wise

Wide receivers/Linebackers

-- Richard Estell
-- Bruce Miller

Kickers

-- Teddy Garcia
-- Marco Morales

Rookies in italics
Roster updated March 15, 2013
32 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS

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Individual Awards

Season	Player	Position
Ironman of the Year
1991	Milton Barney	WR/DB

All-Arena players

The following Night players were named to All-Arena Teams:

WR/DB Milton Barney (1)
OL/DL Johnny Sims (1), Doc Wise (1)
K Marco Morales (1)

Notable coaches

Head coaches

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 1992 Arena Football League season.

Name	Term	Regular Season				Playoffs		Awards
Name	Term	W	L	T	Win%	W	L	Awards
Eddie Khayat	1991	4	6	0	.400	0	0
Vince Gibson	1992	0	10	0	.000	0	0

Season-by-season

Season records
Season	W	L
1991	4	6
1992	0	10
Totals	4	16

Media

The team appeared on the game EA Sports Arena Football as a hidden bonus team.

References

^ Smith, Jimmy (March 19, 1991). "Arena football coming to town". The Times-Picayune. pp. E1.
^ Roesler, Bob (April 10, 1991). "Night dawns in N.O.". The Times-Picayune. pp. C1.
^ Image of 1991 uniform

External links

New Orleans Night at ArenaFan.com

[announcement-1] Smith, Jimmy (March 19, 1991). "Arena football coming to town". The Times-Picayune. pp. E1.

[name-2] Roesler, Bob (April 10, 1991). "Night dawns in N.O.". The Times-Picayune. pp. C1.

[3] Image of 1991 uniform

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