- Lincoln Capitols
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Lincoln Lightning 
Founded 1998 Folded 2006 Home arena Pershing Center City, State Lincoln, Nebraska Conference National Division Midwest ArenaCup championships None Indoor football championships None Division titles 1999 (IFL), 2002 (NIFL) Playoff berths 1999 (IFL), 2000 (IFL), 2002 (NIFL) The Lincoln Capitols were a professional indoor football team that played their home games at Pershing Auditorium in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. They originally planned on becoming the Nebraska Knockout, but the name was scrapped. From 1999 to 2000, they were the Lincoln Lightning of the Indoor Football League before the IFL was bought out. The Lightning then played in the Arena Football's farm league during the 2001 season, before leaving the league and joining the NIFL as the Capitols. During their four-year run, the franchise's most prominent player was a former Nebraska Cornhusker running back named Damon Benning and the franchise's owner was Andrew Cheesman.
This team in Lincoln has been a pushover for most of the team's history, despite being successful in the regular season. They are the only team to lose in two shutouts, a rarity in the NIFL
The league, hoping to kill off their APFL competition and make the Capitols better, talked with the St. Joseph Storm of the APFL and interested them in merging with the Lincoln Capitols and becoming the St. Joseph Storm. The team was still bad and was later bought by the league and made a traveling team. The end result was prospective owners saw NIFL as a league to avoid which was a major factor in the league's problems in 2007.
Season-By-Season
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties
Season W L T Finish Playoff results Lincoln Lightning (IFL) 1999 7 5 0 1st Southern Lost Semifinal (Green Bay) 2000 10 4 0 2nd Southern Lost Round 1 (Sioux City) Lincoln Lightning (af2) 2001 6 10 0 7th NC Midwestern -- Lincoln Capitols (NIFL) 2002 10 4 0 1st Pacific Northern Lost Round 1 Billings 54, Lincoln 51 2003 9 5 0 2nd Pacific Northern -- 2004 3 11 0 4th Pacific Northern -- 2005 1 13 0 5th Pacific Western -- Lincoln Capitols/St. Joseph Cyclones 2006 0 14 0 3rd Pacific Western -- Totals 46 69 0 (including playoffs) External links
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