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Houston ThunderBears

Choose season: All 2001 2000 1999 1998 1998 Houston ThunderBears Regular Season: 8-6 May 01 at Nashville 40-64 10,080 May 09 Florida 41-35 4,629 May 16 at Tampa Bay 25-56 10,009 May 22 Arizona 57-58 3,812 May 30 Iowa 55-21 3,606 Jun 08 at Florida 36-83 2,795 Jun 13 at Grand Rapids 80-36 9,105 Jun 20 Milwaukee 61-55 3,879 Jun 27 at Iowa 72-65 9,286 Jul 03 Tampa Bay 46-62 3,691 Jul 10 Grand Rapids 63-49 3,532 Jul 18 at Milwaukee 39-27 14,265 Jul 23 at Portland 64-56 10,293 Jul 31 San Jose 55-65 9,734 Playoffs Aug 07 at Arizona 36-50 13,151 Arena: Compaq Center (Houston, TX) Coached By: Steve Thonn For more franchise history see also... Texas Terror (1996-1997) Awards First Team All-Arena Team   WR/DB Rodney Blackshear All-Ironman Team   WR/DB Rodney Blackshear 1998 Houston Statistics Rushing   Rush Yds TD Shawn Washington 29 81 7 Jeff Mitchell 12 33 1 Deryl Lane 13 27 1 Clint Dolezel 17 16 5 Mike Hold Jr 3 -2 0 Team 74 155 14 Passing   Comp Att % Yds TD INT QB Rat. Clint Dolezel 343 558 61.5 4228 81 17 108.5 Mike Hold Jr 14 22 63.6 136 3 0 115.0 Team 357 580 61.6 4364 84 17 108.7 Receiving   Recept Yds TD Robert Hall 95 1208 17 Rodney Blackshear 69 871 17 Bernard Holmes 46 640 14 Ben Bronson 45 580 8 Lloyd Hill 37 412 8 Chris Ford 31 330 9 Terence Davis 10 94 4 Shawn Washington 8 64 2 Murray Garrett 7 65 3 Deryl Lane 3 34 1 Edwin Howard 2 40 0 Mitchell Benson 2 20 1 Clint Dolezel 1 4 0 Dwayne Ware 1 2 0 Team 357 4364 84 Kick Returns   Returns Yds TD Rodney Blackshear 34 492 0 Dwayne Ware 17 239 0 Ben Bronson 16 260 0 Bernard Holmes 13 293 1 Robert Hall 9 91 0 Mike Hold Jr 1 21 0 Joe Carollo 1 15 0 Thomas McGaughey 1 10 0 Carlos Fowler 1 0 0 Team 93 1421 1 Kicking   FGM 4pt FGA % XPM 2pt XPA % Pts Richard DeFelice 8 0 16 50.0 9 0 15 60.0 33 Kyle Bryant 4 0 10 40.0 34 0 43 79.1 46 Rich Fall 1 0 5 20.0 18 0 20 90.0 21 Team 13 0 31 41.9 61 0 78 78.2 100 Defensive Stats   Tack Ast Tot Sacks PB FF FR Blk Int Yds TDs Thomas McGaughey 38 15 45.5 0.0 10 3 1 0 3 0 0 Lance Thomas 30 12 36 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Maurice Smith 23 9 27.5 0.0 2 0 2 0 1 9 0 Rodney Blackshear 23 6 26 0.0 5 0 0 0 4 104 1 Rodney Ray 20 9 24.5 0.0 8 3 0 0 0 0 0 Deryl Lane 18 9 22.5 2.0 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 Fernando Thomas 17 5 19.5 0.0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 Jeff Mitchell 16 5 18.5 2.0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 Dwayne Ware 16 3 17.5 1.0 2 2 0 0 1 6 0 Junior Soli Jr 12 10 17 3.0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 Lloyd Hill 8 17 16.5 0.0 0 0 3 0 2 15 0 Shawn Washington 12 7 15.5 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Chris Ford 11 4 13 1.0 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 Luke Yarnell 9 5 11.5 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Verone McKinley 10 0 10 0.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Carlos Fowler 6 8 10 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Murray Garrett 7 5 9.5 1.0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 Bernard Holmes 8 3 9.5 0.0 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 Mitchell Benson 6 4 8 0.0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 Michael Harrison 7 2 8 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ben Bronson 6 2 7 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Carlos Timmons 3 1 3.5 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mike Hold Jr 1 2 2 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Joe Carollo 2 0 2 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Kyle Bryant 1 1 1.5 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Robert Hall 1 1 1.5 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Richard DeFelice 1 1 1.5 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Clint Dolezel 1 0 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rich Fall 1 0 1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Terence Davis 0 1 0.5 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Walter Shelton Jr 0 1 0.5 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lawann Latson 0 1 0.5 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edwin Howard 0 1 0.5 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Team 314 150 464 11.0 47 13 16 2 12 136 2

Lifetime Records ArenaBowl Championships 0 ArenaBowl Appearances 0 Overall 18-39 Home 9-12 Away 8-22 Neutral Site 1-5 Overtime 2-2 Reg. Season 18-38 Playoffs 0-1 Attendance 101,896 Average 3,773 Most Points At Home 05-14-1999 75 On Road 06-13-1998 80 Least Points At Home 04-22-2000 35 On Road 04-15-2000 14 Largest Victory At Home 05-30-1998 55-21 On Road 06-13-1998 80-36 Worst Loss At Home 04-23-1999 36-69 On Road 07-21-2001 27-80 Most Points Against At Home 05-13-2000 73 On Road 06-08-1998 83 Least Points Against At Home 05-30-1998 21 On Road 07-18-1998 27 Longest Streaks Wins 3 Home Wins 2 Road Wins 4 Losses 9 Home Losses 3 Road Losses 6 Home Attendance Highest 07-31-1998 9,734 Lowest 05-01-1999 1,517