Dallas/Ft. Worth Diesel Semi-Pro football "Striving for a winning season"

 

My WIKI page will consist of the making of Champions....Returning to Glory.

 

DFW Diesel are the 2006 NAFL Champions. They are currently play off contenders fighting for the chance to continue their reign by winning the 2007 NAFL Championship Game.

 

 

 

 

 

The road to victory.............

 

  Regular Season

7/7 S. Texas Mutiny W 53-7

7/14 @ Houston Sharks W 41-12

7/21 Bye

7/28 @ W Tx. Outlaws W 35-6

8/4 Hutto Bulldogs W 59-6

8/11 @ S. Texas Mutiny W 68-14

8/18 Houston Sharks

08/25 Bay Area Gamblers W14-6

9/1 Bye

9/8 W. Texas Outlaws W Forfeit

9/15 @ Hutto Bulldogs W45-0

9/22 Bay Area Gamblers L 10-9

 

Playoffs

10/6 Bye

10/13 Houston Sharks W 49-8

10/20 Bay Area Gamblers W 24-20

10/27 @ King County Jaguars

11/3 Bye

11/10 Championship Game--Las Vegas 

 

 

We will be traveling to Seattle this weekend to take on the King County Jaguars.

 

 

Wish us well!!

 

 

About Minor League Football

Minor league football has always been played in Dallas. Minor league football, formerly known as semi-pro football, has been around longer than the NFL. As a matter of fact, the NFL got its humble beginnings as a result of semi-pro football. The city of Dallas is one of the first cities to ever have fielded a minor league football team. Before there was the Dallas Cowboys, there was the Dallas Texans, a semi-pro football team. Although the team wasn’t very successful, it was a part of the beginning of what is now known as one of the world’s most prolific forms of entertainment, the National Football League. They were eventually purchased by Lamar Hunt, one of the famous Hunt Brothers of Dallas, and moved to Kansas City, Missouri. That team became today’s Kansas City Chiefs.

Since then, there have been numerous attempts to establish a successful minor league team in the Dallas-Ft Worth metropolitan area. Unfortunately, no team ever took root. That is no team until the Dallas Diesel. (http://www.dfwdiesel.com/about.asp)

 

About the Dallas (DFW) Diesel Football Club

 

 

The Dallas Diesel Football Club, by today’s minor league standards is considered a success. The average life span of a minor league team is 3 years. The Diesel is celebrating its 7th season. Its conception was a result of several area teams combining to form a powerhouse team that could compete on a national scale. In January of 1997, James and David Isenberg, owners of the Texas Rampage, Marcus Dixon, owner of the Carrollton Jaguars along with Rodney Billups and Jewell Portwood, owners of the Metro Magic football team held a private meeting to discuss the formation of one club. With everyone in agreement, the team was born. With limited resources, the team played its first season in the old uniforms of the Texas Rampage, which happen to be red, white and blue. As a tribute to the Magic, silver was chosen as the color of the team helmet. It was decided that the team would call Dallas its home and Jewell Portwood penned the name “Diesel Train” as the team mascot and James Isenberg created the logo. Since then, the name Train has been dropped and Jewell Portwood has remained as sole owner of the club. (http://www.dfwdiesel.com/about.asp?id=about%20dfw%20diesel)

 

 

Dallas Diesel Goal

 

With the intent of being a national powerhouse in the minor league ranks still one of its goals, the Dallas Diesel Football Club has made community service as its primary goal. Since 1998, the Diesel has formed a bond with several non-profit organizations such as the Salvation Army and the Boys and Girls Clubs. Jewell Portwood has made it his personal goal to elevate the Dallas Diesel to a level of excellence both on the field and in the community.

It is his dream that the Diesel be at the forefront as a provider of inexpensive family entertainment for the less fortunate in the Dallas Ft Worth community. For the 2003 season, the Diesel selected the Boys and Girls Club of Collin County as its first project. The goal was to invite 50 youth of the CCBGC to all 6 of their home games.

To pay for their season passes, the Diesel went to the corporate world to find sponsorship. They were successful in getting the Daimler-Chrysler Company to sponsor those youth. The children really enjoyed the games while the players worked hard to provide quality entertainment for those in attendance and Daimler-Chrysler made the dreams of both groups come true. It turned out to be a huge success.

Believing that they can do more, the Diesel has made a goal of entertaining no less than 5000 youth for the 2004 season. The task now is to turn to the corporate world once again. They intend to successfully secure sponsorship for those youth prior to the start of the season.

With your help, 2007 can be a win-win situation for everyone involved. (http://www.dfwdiesel.com/about.asp?id=about%20dfw%20diesel)