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The 'Las Vegas Outlaws' were a team in the short-lived XFL in the Western Division with the Los Angeles Xtreme, San Francisco Demons and Memphis Maniax. They played their home games at Sam Boyd Stadium.

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History

Las Vegas Outlaws Players

Team Leaders

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History

Among the team's players were the XFL's most well-known, Rod Smart (later with the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles, Carolina Panthers, and currently the Oakland Raiders), who went by the nickname of "He Hate Me", which appeared on the back of his jersey. He was originally going to put "'They' Hate Me", but there wasn't enough room. Coached by former Boise State and Scottish Claymores head coach Jim Criner, The Outlaws competed in the XFL's only season, held in the spring of 2001. They finished in 4th place in the division with a record of 4-6. Their top players were: K/P Paul McCallum, TE Werner
Hippler, both from Canada, DE-DT Kelvin Kinney from Virginia, RB Rod Smart, WR Mike Furrey
and LB Kurt Gouveia (Hawai'i).
Despite having a two-year contract, NBC announced shortly after the season that it was getting out, as the season's later games had garnered the lowest ratings for a major American television network since the Nielsen Ratings had begun tracking them, and the league folded shortly afterwards.
The team was the centerpiece of the 2003 book about the XFL, ''Long Bomb''. It was written by Brett Forrest of ''Details'' magazine.

Las Vegas Outlaws Players

★ 87 Werner (Verne) Hippler, who played 11 years in the NFL Europa League and holds many
records and two years with the San Diego Chargers and Detroit Lions (practice squad).

★ 10 Mike Cawley QB college (James Madison) Cawley played in the NFL for five seasons with four different teams. A season in the CFL with two different teams and a season in NFL Europe with the Amsterdam Admirals, and one year with the Af2 Quad City Steamwheelers.

★ 81 Todd Floyd WR college (UNLV)Floyd saw time in the NFL pre season camps with Jacksonville and Buffalo before embarking on a season in NFL Europe in 1999 with the Frankfurt Galaxy.

★ 22 Chris Chukwuma RB college (Arkansas) Chukwuma was signed and released by Dallas - NFL

★ 82 Mike Furrey WR college (Ohio State & Northern Iowa) Furrey is currently playing in the NFL with the Detroit Lions

★ 83 Ben Snell RB college (Ohio Northern) Snell played the 2000 season in NFL Europe with the Scottish Claymores

★ 12 Chuck Clemants QB college (University of Houston)

★ 17 Paul Mc Callum K (Canadian Football League, Scottish Claymores)

★ 92 Kelvin T.G. Kinney, Virginia State; Washington-NFL, Detroit, Columbus, Tampa Bay - Ar.FL,
Toronto Argonauts and Edmonton Eskimos - CFL.

Team Leaders

★ Rushing Yards: 555, Rod "He Hate Me" Smart

★ Receiving Yards: 273, Yo Murphy

★ Passing Yards: 804, Ryan ClementUniversity of Miami

External link

★ http://rememberthexfl.8m.com/teampages.html (Scroll down)