2005 Berlin Thunder season
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The 2005 Berlin Thunder
season was the seventh season for the team in the NFL Europe
League.
Berlin Thunder
The Berlin Thunder were a professional American football team in NFL Europe, which was a springtime American football league serving primarily as a developmental league for the National Football League. Most of the players were young American professional players assigned by NFL teams to receive...
season was the seventh season for the team in the NFL Europe
NFL Europe
NFL Europe was an American football league which operated in Europe from 1991 until 2007. Backed by the National Football League , the largest professional American football league in the United States, it was founded as the World League of American Football to serve as a type of spring league...
League.
Free Agent Draft
| Draft order | Player name | Position | College | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round | Overall | |||
| 1 | 6 | DeAngelo Lloyd | DE | Tennessee |
| 2 | 12 | Darrell Lee | DE | Florida |
| 3 | 13 | Dante Ellington | T | Alabama |
| 4 | 24 | James Thornton | CB | Morris Brown |
| 5 | 25 | David Porter | T | Iowa |
| 6 | 36 | Greg Taplin | DE | Michigan State |
| 7 | 37 | Regis Crawford | C | Arizona State |
| 8 | 45 | Reggie Rhodes Reggie Rhodes Reggie Rhodes is an American football defensive lineman who is a free agent. He most recently played for the Los Angeles Avengers in the Arena Football League.-High school years:... |
DT | Valdosta State |
Staff
Roster
Schedule
| Week | Date | Kickoff (CEST Central European Summer Time Central European Summer Time is one of the names of the Daylight saving time offset using the UTC offset of UTC+02:00, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in most European countries. During the winter, Central European Time is used... ) |
Opponent | Results | Game site | Attendance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final score | Team record | ||||||
| 1 | Saturday, April 2 | 6:00 p.m. | Frankfurt Galaxy 2005 Frankfurt Galaxy season The 2005 Frankfurt Galaxy season was the 13th season for the team in the NFL Europe League.-Free Agent Draft:-Staff:-Roster:... |
W 30–7 | 1–0 | Olympic Stadium Olympic Stadium (Berlin) The Olympiastadion is a sports stadium in Berlin, Germany. There have been two stadiums on the site: the present facility, and one that is called the Deutsches Stadion which was built for the aborted 1916 Summer Olympics. Both were designed by members of the same family, the first by Otto March... |
16,199 |
| 2 | Sunday, April 10 | 4:00 p.m. | Hamburg Sea Devils 2005 Hamburg Sea Devils season The 2005 Hamburg Sea Devils season was the inaugural season for the team in the NFL Europe League.-Free Agent Draft:-Staff:-Roster:... |
W 15–13 | 2–0 | Olympic Stadium | 14,312 |
| 3 | Saturday, April 16 | 7:00 p.m. | at Amsterdam Admirals 2005 Amsterdam Admirals season The 2005 Amsterdam Admirals season was the 11th season for the team in the NFL Europe League.-Free Agent Draft:-Staff:-Roster:-World Bowl XIII:... |
L 27–31 | 2–1 | Amsterdam ArenA Amsterdam ArenA Amsterdam Arena is a stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is the largest stadium in the nation and it was built from 1993 to 1996 at a cost of €140 million, and was officially opened on 14 August 1996. It has been used for association football, American football, concerts, and other events... |
10,131 |
| 4 | Saturday, April 23 | 7:00 p.m. | at Rhein Fire 2005 Rhein Fire season The 2005 Rhein Fire season was the 11th season for the team in the NFL Europe League. The Fire was led by fifth-year head coach Pete Kuharchek and played its home games at the newly build LTU arena in Düsseldorf, Germany. Rhein finished the season in sixth place with a record of 3–7.-Free Agent... |
W 30–28 | 3–1 | LTU arena | 20,399 |
| 5 | Saturday, April 30 | 6:00 p.m. | Amsterdam Admirals | W 27–16 | 4–1 | Olympic Stadium | 16,109 |
| 6 | Sunday, May 8 | 4:00 p.m. | at Cologne Centurions 2005 Cologne Centurions season The 2005 Cologne Centurions season was the second season for the team in the NFL Europe League.-Free Agent Draft:-Staff:-Roster:... |
L 17–23 | 4–2 | RheinEnergieStadion RheinEnergieStadion The RheinEnergieStadion is a football stadium in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was built on the site of the two previous Müngersdorfer stadiums. It is the home of the local Bundesliga team, 1. FC Köln. The stadium was one of the 12 hosting the 2006 FIFA World Cup... |
9,485 |
| 7 | Saturday, May 14 | 6:00 p.m. | Rhein Fire | W 24–15 | 5–2 | Olympic Stadium | 16,695 |
| 8 | Sunday, May 22 | 4:00 p.m. | at Hamburg Sea Devils | W 27–17 | 6–2 | AOL Arena | 16,889 |
| 9 | Saturday, May 28 | 7:00 p.m. | at Frankfurt Galaxy | W 31–24 | 7–2 | Commerzbank-Arena Commerzbank-Arena The Commerzbank-Arena is a sports stadium in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. Commonly known by its original name, Waldstadion , the stadium opened in 1925. The stadium has been upgraded several times since then; the most recent remodelling was its redevelopment as a football-only stadium in preparation... |
40,109 |
| 10 | Sunday, June 5 | 4:00 p.m. | Cologne Centurions | L 13–17 | 7–3 | Olympic Stadium | 20,927 |
| World Bowl XIII | |||||||
| 11 | Saturday, June 11 | 5:00 p.m. | Amsterdam Admirals | L 21–27 | 7–4 | LTU arena | 35,134 |