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Goodbye, Miami Caliente

By Michael J. Mooney Tue., Apr. 26 2011 at 6:25 AM
Categories: Sports
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C. Stiles
The Caliente made it to the league semifinals in 2010 but lost to the Chicago Bliss.
​The Miami Caliente, South Florida's own lingerie football team, is no more. One of the ten inaugural teams in the league formed two years ago, the Caliente made it to the playoffs in 2010 with one of the best offenses in the league, losing in the conference finals to the Chicago Bliss. The second season, however, was not as successful.

Now the team's league-hosted website is gone, several of the team's best players are now on other teams, and the word Caliente is nowhere to be found on the recently released 2011-12 schedule.

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Dixon on the New Times cover.
​Star quarterback Anonka Dixon, who led the league in touchdowns in her first season in the LFL, recently confirmed that she will play next season with the Orlando Fantasy. Of course, New Times featured Dixon in a March 2010 cover story chronicling the team's first season. There was some subsequent controversy.

The team met a bit of controversy (and additional media coverage) last year, when several players were involved in a bench-clearing brawl with the Tampa Bay Breeze. Several players were suspended, and one coach was dismissed.

A team source said the franchise was folding mostly because the local market did not support the team. Even when the team essentially hosted the playoffs, the crowd was only a couple of hundred people.

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FBFAN
FBFAN

Maybe if the tickets weren't almost $100 a piece more people would have gone to the games...

Miami Caliente™
Miami Caliente™

this is not surprising at all, its what happens in America when you try to steal a brand name...

Fsu_Seminole
Fsu_Seminole

Speaking as someone who knows what they are talking about, the league/team owner didn't do anything to support or market the team. It was a "dirty little secret" that the owner didn't like the team. No surprise there was no grass root support when there is no support (and thus no marketing) from the owner or the league. Kind of sad really.

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