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Established
2003 (21 years old)
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American FootballStadium/Home
Blackham Coliseum
(5,500 Capacity)
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Location
Lafayette, LA
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Arena Football League
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The Louisiana VooDoo are a professional arena football team based in Lafayette, Louisiana. They are members of the Arena Football League and will play their home games at Blackham Coliseum in Lafayette starting in 2024.
This team is the latest incarnation formerly known as the New Orleans VooDoo with the original and second incarnations being members of the East Division of the American Conference of the AFL and played their home games in Smoothie King Center at different times between 2004 and 2015. The VooDoo were unrelated to an earlier AFL team, the New Orleans Night, who had competed in the 1991 and 1992 AFL seasons in the Louisiana Superdome.
The original New Orleans VooDoo played in the AFL from 2004 to
2008, at which point the league suspended operations. During that time
they were owned in part by Tom Benson, who also owned the National Football League's New Orleans Saints.
At the completion of the 2008 season, VooDoo owner Tom Benson
announced the disbanding of the VooDoo. This led to the termination of
operations for the AFL and ultimate filing by the League of Chapter 11
Bankruptcy. The minor league affiliate of the AFL, af2, continued play through the 2009 season.
In the Fall of 2009, several af2 owners, Paul Ross of the Tulsa Talons, Dan Newman of the Bossier-Shreveport Battle Wings, and Brady Nelson of the Spokane Shock, spearheaded in conjunction with Brett Bouchy, former owner of the AFL's Arizona Rattlers and Orlando Predators,
a move to purchase the assets of the AFL out of Bankruptcy. This
successful transaction resulted in the reformation of the AFL for the
2010 season. Prior to the 2010 season, the af2 league terminated
operations. Several af2 teams chose to move into the AFL, including the
Talons, BattleWings, Iowa Barnstormers, Spokane Shock, Tennessee Valley Vipers, and Boise Burn.
Prior to the 2011 AFL season, several AFL teams relocated: The Talons
moved from Tulsa to San Antonio; the Vipers moved from Huntsville,
Alabama to Atlanta, Georgia, and reactivated the Georgia Force; the
BattleWings left Bossier City for New Orleans and reactivated the New
Orleans VooDoo. Legendary AFL player/coach Derek Stingley coached the VooDoo for the 2011 season and was replaced in 2012 by longtime AFL quarterback and coach Pat O'Hara. In 2015, the VooDoo's final season, Dean Cokinos was the head coach. At the completion of the 2015 season, the New Orleans VooDoo ceased operations.
The VooDoo's official mascots were known as Bones and Mojo. Their cheerleaders were known as the VooDoo Dolls.
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Blackham Coliseum is a multipurpose arena in Lafayette, Louisiana. It was built on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus in 1949 as the home to the then-named SLI Bulldogs, now called the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball
teams. The arena was named for Stafford Morgan Blackham, former dean of
the Department of Animal Husbandry at SLI, and as such it was built to
host livestock exhibitions as well as athletics (in a similar manner to
the usage of LSU's Parker Coliseum). It replaced the 1,500-seat Earl K. Long Gymnasium as home to the athletics teams. It remained the home for the men's team until the Cajundome was completed in 1984. The women continue to play the majority of their games at Earl K. Long. Blackham hosted the Southland Conference men's basketball tournament in 1982.
In the 1960s, it became popular as a venue for pop concerts where acts like The Supremes, James Brown and Jackie Wilson. The Supremes played to soldout audiences on their "Symphony Tour 1965".
Today it is still in use, seating 5,500 for basketball and up to 9,800 for concerts. It also features 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2) of space at the main arena, with two barns adding 46,500 square feet (4,300 m2) of space. Altogether, the three buildings can also be used for trade shows, rodeos and conventions. It was home to the Acadiana Mudbugs of the Southern Indoor Football League for their 2009 season, and in fall 2009, the revived Louisiana IceGators began play there as a member of the Southern Professional Hockey League.
In April 2009, the venue held its first heavy metal concert, the 2009 No Fear Music Tour featuring Lamb Of God, As I Lay Dying, Children of Bodom, God Forbid and Municipal Waste.
The venue serves as home to the Grammy-styled, annual Le Cajun
Music Awards Festival held every August by the Cajun French Music
Association, an association of Cajun music enthusiasts for the preservation of the Cajun music, language, heritage and culture.
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