The 2008 Marion Mayhem season was the third season for the Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL) franchise. Finishing with a 7–5 record in 2008, the Mayhem were eliminated from the 2008 CIFL playoffs. The Mayhem players had already turned in their equipment for the year when it was announced that the defending CIFL champion Rochester Raiders (12-0) had been suspended by the league and had to forfeit their playoff spot. The Mayhem were invited to replace the former champs in the CIFL Atlantic Conference Western Division playoffs where they would face their conference foe Saginaw. The Mayhem gathered their players back together and headed to Saginaw to face the Sting. The playoff game went down to the wire where a goal-line stand by the Saginaw defense with only seconds left on the clock ended the Mayhem's season. The final score Sting 41 - Mayhem 34.
| 2008 Marion Mayhem season | |
|---|---|
| Owner | R.A. Mallonn Fred Horner Tim Cugini John Slebodnik |
| Head coach | Pepe Pearson |
| Home field | Veterans Memorial Coliseum 220 East Fairground Street Marion, OH 43302 |
| Results | |
| Record | 7–5 |
| Division place | 3rd Atlantic West |
| Playoff finish | Lost Atlantic Conference Semifinals 34-41 (Sting) |
Schedule
edit| Date | Opponent | Home/Away | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 8 | Muskegon Thunder | Away | W 34-33 |
| March 21 | Saginaw Sting | Away | L 48-54 |
| March 29 | Chesapeake Tide | Home | W 70-35 |
| April 5 | Rochester Raiders | Home | L 19-52 |
| April 12 | Milwaukee Bonecrushers | Home | W 43-19 |
| April 19 | Miami Valley Silverbacks | Away | W 61-33 |
| April 26 | Fort Wayne Freedom | Away | L 40-55 |
| May 3 | Lehigh Valley Outlawz | Away | L 33-44 |
| May 9 | Chicago Slaughter | Home | L 38-41 |
| May 16 | Lehigh Valley Outlawz | Home | W 36-23 |
| May 24 | Chesapeake Tide | Away | W 67-39 |
| June 7 | Miami Valley Silverbacks | Home | W 51-44 |
| 2008 CIFL PLAYOFFS | |||
| June 14 | Saginaw Sting (Atl Semifinals) | Away | L 34-41 |
2008 standings
edit| Team | Overall | Division | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | L | T | PCT | W | L | T | PCT | ||||
| Great Lakes Conference | |||||||||||
| East Division | |||||||||||
| Kalamazoo Xplosion-y | 11 | 1 | 0 | .917 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .833 | |||
| Muskegon Thunder-x | 5 | 7 | 0 | .417 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .500 | |||
| Fort Wayne Freedom | 5 | 7 | 0 | .417 | 2 | 4 | 0 | .333 | |||
| Miami Valley Silverbacks | 3 | 9 | 0 | .250 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .333 | |||
| West Division | |||||||||||
| Chicago Slaughter-y | 8 | 4 | 0 | .667 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .750 | |||
| Rock River Raptors-x | 7 | 5 | 0 | .583 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .750 | |||
| Milwaukee Bonecrushers | 1 | 11 | 0 | .083 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .000 | |||
| Atlantic Conference | |||||||||||
| East Division | |||||||||||
| New England Surge-y | 8 | 3 | 0 | .727 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .833 | |||
| Lehigh Valley Outlawz-x | 7 | 5 | 0 | .583 | 4 | 2 | 0 | .667 | |||
| New Jersey Revolution | 3 | 9 | 0 | .250 | 2 | 5 | 0 | .286 | |||
| Chesapeake Tide | 2 | 10 | 0 | .583 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | |||
| West Division | |||||||||||
| Rochester Raiders-z | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | |||
| Saginaw Sting-y | 10 | 2 | 0 | .833 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .750 | |||
| Marion Mayhem-x | 7 | 5 | 0 | .583 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | |||
| Flint Phantoms | 1 | 11 | 0 | .083 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .000 | |||