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WRANGLERS
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| In
both their seasons of existence, the Wranglers
began the regular season with meetings against
Pacific Division rival Oakland. |
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Invaders won the first meeting between the
teams, 24-0, posting the first shutout in USFL
history. |
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| The
Wranglers administrative offices were located at
2200 North Central Avenue in Phoenix. |
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| Among
the members of the 1983 Wranglers front office
staff was assistant General Manager Jim Foster,
who would go on to invent the game of Arena
Football. |
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| The
Wranglers could be heard on KOY-AM 570 in the
Phoenix area. |
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No
member of the 1983 Arizona Wranglers rushed for
1,000 or more yards.
The 1983 team's 10-game losing streak was the
longest in the history of the USFL.
After 9 weeks of the 1983 season, the Wranglers
were simultaneously tied for first and last place
- all four teams in the USFL's Pacific Division
had identical 4-5-0 records.
The 1983 Wranglers team scored the fewest points
in the USFL (261) and gave up the most (442).
The 1984 Wranglers finished 10-8-0, tied with the
Los Angeles Express atop the Pacific
Division. The Express would win the division
championship however by virtue of
tiebreakers. Still making the playoffs, the
Wranglers got their revenge by defeating the
Express, 35-23, to advance to the 1984 USFL
Championship Game.
The 1984 Wranglers lost the USFL Championship Game
to the Philadelphia Stars, 23-3. It would
prove to be the last game ever played by teams
known as the Philadelphia Stars and Arizona
Wranglers. The Wranglers would merge with
the Oklahoma Outlaws to form the Arizona Outlaws
for 1985, while the Philadelphia Stars would
relocate to Baltimore, Maryland.
1983 head coach Doug Shively came to the Wranglers
from the Atlanta Falcons, where he had spent six
years under Leeman Bennett as the team's
linebackers coach. He also had coached at
Virginia Tech, Kentucky, Clemson and North
Carolina, as well as with the New Orleans
Saints. Another Atlanta Falcons assistant,
Jim Stanley, was tapped to serve as the head coach
of the Michigan Panthers. |
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