Mahoning Valley HitMen
Founded	2007
Arena	ThunderDome Thunderdome UC Santa Barbara Events Center, originally known as Campus Events Center and now most commonly known as The Thunderdome, is a 5,600-seat, indoor multi-purpose stadium on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California.-History:The Thunderdome was built in...
Based in	Masury, Ohio Masury, Ohio Masury is a census-designated place in Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,618 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Youngstown–Warren–Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.- History :...
Colors	black, gold
League	Eastern Indoor Football League Eastern Indoor Football League The Eastern Indoor Football League was an extremely short-lived Indoor American football league that comprised teams located in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States. Play under the auspices of the league began in 2007 amongst four new teams: the 3 Rivers Rats , Mahoning Valley HitMen,...
Head coach	Jim Terry
General manager	Jim Terry

The Mahoning Valley HitMen were a team in the Eastern Indoor Football League

Eastern Indoor Football League

The Eastern Indoor Football League was an extremely short-lived Indoor American football league that comprised teams located in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States. Play under the auspices of the league began in 2007 amongst four new teams: the 3 Rivers Rats , Mahoning Valley HitMen,...

, a United States

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-based American football

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 arena

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 league

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, which was based in Masury

Masury, Ohio

Masury is a census-designated place in Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,618 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Youngstown–Warren–Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.- History :...

, Ohio

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, United States

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, and coached

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 and owned by Jim Terry. They were scheduled to begin play in the January 2007

2007 in sports

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, as a member of the Eastern Indoor Football League

Eastern Indoor Football League

The Eastern Indoor Football League was an extremely short-lived Indoor American football league that comprised teams located in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States. Play under the auspices of the league began in 2007 amongst four new teams: the 3 Rivers Rats , Mahoning Valley HitMen,...

.

The HitMen were scheduled to play their home games at the ThunderPlex in Brookfield Township, but have recently severed ties with the ownership, and since have announced a two-year lease to play at the Thunderdome in Brookfield/Masury, which is a former indoor baseball field/dome, which had become a storage facility for carnival and amusement operations.
http://www.wkbn.com/news/local/3545102.html?skipthumb=Y The team planned to compete against the nearby Mahoning Valley Thunder

Mahoning Valley Thunder

The Mahoning Valley Thunder was a professional af2 arena football team from 2007-2009.Having entered af2 as an expansion team in 2007, the Thunder played its home games at Cortland Banks Field at the Covelli Centre in downtown Youngstown, Ohio....

 of the af2 for fans and media attention.

On July 6, 2006, the team announced it would feature running back

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 Maurice Clarett

Maurice Clarett

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, previously of the Ohio State University

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 Buckeyes

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 (National Collegiate Athletic Association

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 Division I) and Denver Broncos

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 (National Football League

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), but Clarett was jailed on August 9, pending trial

Trial

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 for sundry alleged offenses; Terry, who said he spoke to Clarett just prior to the latter's being arrested subsequent to a short chase, averred that the team would continue to support Clarett and retain him should he be available for play in 2007. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2545493

The team played 4 games in front of only a few hundred people, then the league folded.

External links

• Tryout video from October 14, 2006
• EIEIO Indoor Football League A website that appears to exist only to mock the Hitmen and its principals.