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UIF's BlueCats cease operations
By Pantagraph staff
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- The Evansville BlueCats of the United Indoor Football league shut it doors Friday and now are for sale. Team ownership informed staff Wednesday that the minor-league indoor football team would cease operations after five seasons of not making a profit.

"Emotionally, we just don't have the fight in it anymore," Evansville team president John Voliva told the Evansville (Ind.) Courier Press.

The newspaper speculated that if the organization is not sold by late September, it likely would not field a team in Evansville or elsewhere for the 2008 season.

Attendance for the BlueCats' games ranged between 2,100 and 2,500 fans per game.

Three BlueCats have been named to the UIF All-Star game to be played Saturday in Bloomington.

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Evansville BlueCats Ray Kirkley, left, tries to keep the ball away from Bloomington Extreme's Dorian Pitts, right, in a game at U.S. Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington, June 2, 2007. (Pantagraph file photo/B Mosher)
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small town pro franchises wrote on Aug 14, 2007 10:22 AM:

" Just another indication of the difficulty small town professional hockey and football teams have making a go of it. The small number of teams in each league, the relatively unknown players, competing with local college basketball and football schedules. Whenever a franchise like this fails I say it's bad news for all of them. "

.... wrote on Aug 14, 2007 10:19 AM:

" the extreme are named after a car dealership...and our unis arent that great looking...indoor football doesnt work everywhere, im sure the newness just wore off like it will here after a few seasons. "

to CJS wrote on Aug 13, 2007 9:12 PM:

" Heh...their uni's aren't nearly as bad as Ohio Valley's road jerseys! "

CJS wrote on Aug 13, 2007 7:52 PM:

" If they didn't have a stupid nickname and god-awful ugly uniforms, this team may have had a chance. "
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