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Fort Wayne Fusion

Arena football team

Fort Wayne Fusion
Established 2006 Folded 2007 PlayedinAllen County War Memorial Coliseum inFort Wayne, Indiana
League/conference affiliations
af2 (2007) American Conference (2007) Midwest Division (2007)
Current uniform
Team colors	Burnt orange, regal purple, pearl white
Personnel
Owner(s)	af2
General manager	Mike McCaffrey
Head coach	Eddie Brown
Team history
Fort Wayne Fusion (2007)
Championships
League championships (0)
Conference championships (0)
Division championships (0)
Home arena(s)
Allen County War Memorial Coliseum (2007)

The Fort Wayne Fusion was a 2007 af2 (Arena Football League's minor league) expansion team in the Midwest Division of the American Conference. They played their home games at the Allen County War Memorial ColiseuminFort Wayne, Indiana, which was the former home of the defunct National Indoor Football League/United Indoor Football franchise, the Fort Wayne Freedom.

After only one year of existence, the Fusion folded and a new version of the Fort Wayne Freedom was formed for the Continental Indoor Football League.

The franchise was announced in November, 2006 as an expansion team of the af2. Jeremy Golden was announced as the team's owner and general manager, and secured a lease with Allen County War Memorial Coliseum for home games.^[1] The team also announced that Arena Football League legend, Eddie Brown, would be the team first head coach.^[1] In January, the team named Mike McCaffrey as the team's General Manager to handle day-to-day operations for the Fusion.^[2] In February, the team announced the team colors would be Burnt Orange, Regal Purple and Pearl White.^[3] With the team struggling to find a quarterback through their exhibition games, the Fusion traded for Cody Hodges of the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz.^[4] The Fusion played their first game in the af2 on March 31, 2007 against the Green Bay Blizzard, who were the then-defending American Conference champions.^[5] In July, 2007, the news surfaced that Owner Jeremy Golden had been removed as the owner of the Fusion by af2 Commissioner, Jerry Kurz.^[6] The Fusion finished the season 5-11,^[7] but with the loss of Golden during the season, the Fusion playing again in 2008 was very remote.^[8] In October, the city learned that Kurz had determined that the Fusion would not return in 2008.^[9]

The Fort Wayne Fusion's schedule for the 2007 season is as follows: (Home Games in bold)

Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2007 af2 season.

• History of sports in Fort Wayne, Indiana

• Official af2 Website Archived 2004-06-29 at the Wayback Machine
• Fort Wayne Fusion Official Stats at TheStatGuys.com^{[permanent dead link]}
• Fort Wayne Fusion Website
• Fort Wayne Fusion at ArenaFan.com