Baltimore Mariners | |
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Established 2007 Folded 2014 Played in Baltimore, Maryland at the Baltimore Arena | |
League/conference affiliations | |
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Current uniform | |
Team colors | Navy blue, Gold, and White |
Personnel | |
Owner(s) | C & G Sports Management |
General manager | Scott Garrity |
Head coach | Ron Meehan |
Team history | |
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Championships | |
League championships (2) AIFA: 2010 AIF: 2014 | |
Conference championships (0) | |
Division championships (0) | |
Playoff appearances (2) | |
2010, 2014 | |
Home arena(s) | |
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The Baltimore Mariners were an indoor football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. The team was a member of American Indoor Football. The team was founded when the American Indoor Football Association expelled the Baltimore Blackbirds for negotiating with another league. The AIFA maintained the lease rights to 1st Mariner Arena, so the Mariners were the league's replacement. On September 3, 2010, team owner Dwayne Wells was arrested on charges of wire fraud from an engineering firm he partially owned, allegedly using embezzled money from the firm to buy stakes in the Mariners franchise.[1] Wells forfeited his ownership of the team, causing the Mariners to fold after the 2010 season. The Southern Indoor Football League, as successor to the eastern half of the AIFA, held the lease on the arena, now called Baltimore Arena, until it folded in 2011. The Mariners, after three seasons out of play, returned for one final season in 2014, winning the league championship before folding again. The Mariners were succeeded by the Baltimore Brigade of the Arena Football League in 2017, until the league folded in 2019.