2007 Berlin Thunder season
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The 2007 Berlin Thunder
season was the ninth and final season for the team in the NFL Europa
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 ninth and final season for the team in the NFL Europa
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 | Choice | |||
| 1 | 1 | Chris Thompson | CB | Nicholls State |
| 2 | 7 | Lauvale Sape Lauvale Sape Lauvale Sape [la-VAH-lay sah-PAY] is an American football defensive tackle for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL Draft... |
DT | Utah |
| 3 | 18 | Seante Williams Seante Williams Seante Williams is an American football defensive end who currently plays with the Philadelphia Soul. He was originally signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2004... |
DE | Jacksonville State |
| 4 | 19 | Jabari Levey | T | South Carolina |
| 5 | 30 | Chris Harrell Chris Harrell Christopher Mychal Harrell is a professional American football player, playing strong safety in the National Football League. Currently allocated to the Berlin Thunder of NFL Europa, Harrell signed as a free agent with the Arizona Cardinals shortly after the 2006 NFL draft... |
CB | Penn State |
| 6 | 31 | Matt Henshaw | TE | Florida State |
| 7 | 42 | Steve Paris | S | Iowa State |
| 8 | 43 | Damien Rhodes | RB | Syracuse |
| 9 | 54 | Keon Raymond Keon Raymond Keon Raymond is a Canadian football defensive back for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He was signed by the Tennessee Titans as an undrafted free agent in 2006... |
CB | Middle Tennessee |
| 10 | 55 | Quartez Vickerson | DT | Grand Valley State |
| 11 | 66 | Steven Vieira | G | UCLA |
| 12 | 67 | Samario Houston | LB | Catawba |
| 13 | 78 | Jameel Dumas Jameel Dumas Jameel Dumas is a former American football linebacker. He played for Syracuse University from 2000 to 2003, where he made 179 tackles and earned All-American honors. After suffering a knee injury in the first game of his fifth-year senior season, Dumas missed the remainder of the year... |
LB | Syracuse |
| 14 | 79 | Jay McCareins | CB | Princeton |
| 15 | 90 | Robin Meadow | T | Washington |
| 16 | 91 | Sha-Ron Edwards | RB | Illinois State |
| 17 | 102 | Bernard Opoku | S | Jacksonville |
| 18 | 103 | Bobby Payne | DE | Middle Tennessee |
| 19 | 114 | Daniel Martz | C | Alabama |
| 20 | 115 | Jason Flowers | CB | Toledo |
| 21 | 126 | Tim Clarke | LB | Lenoir-Rhyne |
| 22 | 127 | Mike Mendenhall | DE | Temple |
| 23 | 133 | Scott Mitchell | WR | Kentucky |
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 14 | 7:00 p.m. | at Rhein Fire 2007 Rhein Fire season The 2007 Rhein Fire season was the 13th and final season for the team in the NFL Europa League.-Free Agent Draft:-Staff:-Roster:-Schedule:-Honors:*Danny Baugher, All-NFL Europa League team selection... |
W 15–3 | 1–0 | LTU arena | 30,355 |
| 2 | Sunday, April 22 | 4:00 p.m. | Hamburg Sea Devils 2007 Hamburg Sea Devils season The 2007 Hamburg Sea Devils season was the third and final season for the team in the NFL Europa League.-Free Agent Draft:-Staff:-Roster:-Schedule:-World Bowl XV:-Honors:*Adam Anderson, Special Teams Player of the Week... |
L 7–16 | 1–1 | 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... |
30,657 |
| 3 | Saturday, April 28 | 6:00 p.m. | Amsterdam Admirals 2007 Amsterdam Admirals season The 2007 Amsterdam Admirals season was the 13th and final season for the team in the NFL Europa League.-Free Agent Draft:-Staff:-Schedule:-Depth Chart:* Listed on injury report.-Injury Report:-Injury Report:-Roster:... |
L 10–14 | 1–2 | Olympic Stadium | 11,942 |
| 4 | Saturday, May 5 | 6:00 p.m. | at Cologne Centurions 2007 Cologne Centurions season The 2007 Cologne Centurions season was the fourth and final season for the team in the NFL Europa League.-Free Agent Draft:-Staff:-Roster:-Schedule:-Honors:*Bobby Blizzard, All-NFL Europa League team selection... |
W 31–28 | 2–2 | 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... |
10,084 |
| 5 | Sunday, May 13 | 4:00 p.m. | Cologne Centurions | L 10–24 | 2–3 | Olympic Stadium | 11,995 |
| 6 | Sunday, May 20 | 5:00 p.m. | at Frankfurt Galaxy 2007 Frankfurt Galaxy season The 2007 Frankfurt Galaxy season was the 15th and final season for the team in the NFL Europa League.-Free Agent Draft:-Staff:-Roster:-Schedule:-World Bowl XV:-Honors:*Bobby Harris, All-NFL Europa League team selection... |
L 7–35 | 2–4 | 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... |
30,125 |
| 7 | Saturday, May 26 | 6:00 p.m. | at Hamburg Sea Devils | L 7–17 | 2–5 | AOL Arena | 18,337 |
| 8 | Saturday, June 2 | 6:00 p.m. | Frankfurt Galaxy | L 22–25 | 2–6 | Olympic Stadium | 11,882 |
| 9 | Friday, June 8 | 7:00 p.m. | Rhein Fire | L 17–24 | 2–7 | Olympic Stadium | 12,114 |
| 10 | Friday, June 15 | 8:00 p.m. | at Amsterdam Admirals | L 20–21 | 2–8 | Olympic Stadium | 11,893 |
Honors
- Chris BarclayChris BarclayChris Barclay is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football at Wake Forest...
, Special Teams Player of the Week (Week 4) - Carlton BrewsterCarlton BrewsterCarlton Brewster is an Arena football wide receiver for the Grand Rapids Rampage of the Arena Football League. He was signed by the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent in 2006...
, All-NFL Europa League team selection - Andrew Jacas, Special Teams Player of the Week (Week 1)
- Chris Thompson, Defensive Player of the Week (Week 10)