2008 Marion Mayhem season

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
OwnerR.A. Mallonn
Fred Horner
Tim Cugini
John Slebodnik
Head coachPepe Pearson
Home fieldVeterans Memorial Coliseum
220 East Fairground Street
Marion, OH 43302
Results
Record7–5
Division place3rd Atlantic West
Playoff finishLost Atlantic Conference Semifinals 34-41 (Sting)

Schedule

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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

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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

References

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