Topeka Tropics

The Topeka Tropics are a professional indoor football in Champions Indoor Football. Based in Topeka, Kansas, the Tropics play their home games at the Stormont Vail Events Center. The team originally folded after its inaugural season, but was renewed for the 2023-2025 seasons.

Topeka Tropics
Established 2021
Play in Stormont Vail Events Center
in Topeka, Kansas
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League/conference affiliations
Current uniform
Team colorsTeal, orange, and tan
     
MascotTBD
Personnel
Owner(s)TCB Consulting LLC - Trevor Burdett, Chad Logan, Josh Barr
Head coachTBD
Team history
  • Topeka Tropics (in 2022)
Championships
League championships (0)
Conference championships (0)
Division championships (0)
Home arena(s)

History

The Tropics will be the third indoor football team to be based in Topeka following the Topeka Knights/Kings (1999–2000) and the Kansas Koyotes (2003–2014).

On August 9, 2021, Champions Indoor Football (CIF) announced an expansion team to be based in Topeka for the 2022 season with Sioux City Bandits' owner J. R. Bond serving as the team's owner.[1] After a name-the-team contest was held, the Tropics name, logo, and color scheme were unveiled on September 8. Although Topeka does not have a tropical climate and is roughly 790 miles from the closest sea (the Gulf of Mexico), Bond chose the unusual name to symbolize how unconventional the Tropics organization would be both on and off the field.[2] On October 5, the Tropics announced former Arena Football League player Tyus Jackson as its inaugural head coach.[3] On August 25, 2022, the Tropics announced that they would cease operations and not return for a second season;[4] however, this decision was reversed later that same year . September 28, 2022 https://www.wibw.com/2022/09/28/topeka-tropics-return-2023/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)</ref>

Notes
  1. "Champions Indoor Football League Adds New Team for 2022". August 9, 2021. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  2. Campbell, Marleah (September 8, 2021). "Topeka's new indoor football team reveals name". WIBW-TV. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
  3. "Topeka Tropics Owner J.R. Bond has announced the hiring of Tyus Jackson as the team's inaugural head coach". Topeka Tropics Facebook. October 5, 2021. The team would not win a regular season game, posting a record of 0-10 in their first season.
  4. "Tropics not returning to Topeka for 2023 season". August 25, 2022.
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