The Alabama Renegades was a women's full-contact American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 team based in Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville is a city located primarily in Madison County in the central part of the far northern region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County. The city extends west into neighboring Limestone County. Huntsville's population was 180,105 as of the 2010 Census....

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Team history

The Renegades were one of the founding teams of the National Women's Football Association

National Women's Football Association

The National Women's Football Association was a full-contact American football league for women headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The league was founded by Catherine Masters in 2000, as the two benchmark teams, the Alabama Renegades and the Nashville Dream played each other six times in...

 (NWFA) back in the fall of 2000. The Renegades and the Nashville Dream

Nashville Dream

The Nashville Dream was a women's professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. They were one of the founding teams of the National Women's Football Association...

 played a six game exhibition season to determine the viability of a women's full-contact football league. The exhibition games were a huge success and the league expanded to 12 teams in its first full season of play in the spring of 2001. Ray Quinn was the man who first brought full-contact football to Huntsville and he owned the team for two years. Nancy Byrd, a Renegades player, kept the football dream alive in 2003 when she took over the team from Quinn. She, along with general manager Lori Campbell, ran the team for the next six years. Nancy continued to play for the Renegades while owning the team.

Shut down

At the end of the 2008 season, Nancy Bird decide to retire from playing and owning the Alabama Renegades, and looked to sale the team to a new owner. She was unable to find anyone willing to take on the responsibility of running the Alabama Renegades and decided she would no longer field a football team in the NWFA.

"I decided to retire from playing and no one was willing to take on the responsibility of running this team. I appreciate the opportunity Ray and Catherine Masters (NWFA founder) gave me to play football." stated Byrd.

Team Record

Year	Record
2000	3-3 (Exhibition season)
2001	5-3
2002	7-1 (1st round of playoffs)
2003	6-2 (2nd round of playoffs)
2004	5-3
2005	5-3
2006	4-4
2007	3-5
2008	2-6

See also

• Tennessee Valley Tigers
  Tennessee Valley Tigers
  The Tennessee Valley Tigers is a women's American football team located in Huntsville, Alabama. The Tigers joined the Women's Spring Football League in 2011 and will play their first WSFL season in the spring of 2012. This will be the Tigers' fourth season overall, after three seasons in the...
  
  , an IWFL
  Independent Women's Football League
  The Independent Women's Football League was founded in 2000, and began play in 2001.IWFL founders began with the goal to establish a quality women's football league that would be respected as the top level of women's tackle football in the world....
  
  team founded in 2009 which includes some former Alabama Renegades