The Arizona Rattlers are part of the Arena Football League ( AFL ) and compete in the Western Division of the National Conference.

The Medicine Hat College Rattlers compete in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference.

The Rattlers are rivals with the Roadrunners of the crosstown University of Texas at San Antonio, both St. Mary's and UTSA are the only colleges in the city with Rugby programs.

The city is also home to the Navasota News 1550 AM, owned and Managed in Brazos County Texas by Bryan broadcasting, who broadcasts the local Navasota Rattlers football games.

The 2000 season was a disappointment, as the team slumped to a 6-12-0 regular season record and finished the year 7th in the Southern Division behind Texas Rattlers.

Skull Riders: A small gang consisting mostly of Moto Tanks and Rattlers, recruited by Cassandra in Texas.

They became the Texas Toros in 1998, and the Texas Rattlers for the 2000 season.

After entering NCAA Division II competition, the Rattlers won the Heartland Conference co-championship and advanced to the regional tournament in 2001, the team ’ s first year of post-season competition eligibility.

BYU realigned to the Southwest Division in 2009 following the PDL expansion in the Pacific Northwest, and won their opening game 1-0 over the Lancaster Rattlers off a goal by Steven Fellows, but found the early games tough going, winning just one of their next six games ( 1-0 at home over the Hollywood United Hitmen ), while suffering a 4-0 defeat in the return fixture against Hollywood in which midfielder B. J. Pugmire ruptured his knee ligaments.

The Rochester Rhinos and Rochester Rhinos Women soccer teams of the USL First Division and USL W-League, respectively, and the Rochester Rattlers of Major League Lacrosse moved to the facility in 2006.

Although the stadium was built for baseball, Frontier Field has had several tenants in numerous sports, including the Rochester Raging Rhinos of the USL First Division from 1996 to 2005, the Rochester Rattlers of Major League Lacrosse from 2001 to 2002, and the Rochester Red Wings of the International League since 1997.

Meanwhile, the SaberCats were seeking revenge after the Rattlers had swept them during the regular season, winning the Western Division championship and the top seed in the playoffs in the process.

They defeated their Western Division rivals, the Arizona Rattlers, 52-51 in the season opener, and continued their success en route to a 12-0 start.

The Rochester Rattlers are a Major League Lacrosse ( MLL ) professional men's field lacrosse team based in Rochester, New York.

The Arizona Rattlers are a professional arena football team based in Phoenix, Arizona.

The Rattlers are led by arena football Hall of Fame Head Coach Kevin Guy.

" Downtown Phoenix continues to grow and the Rattlers will be an integral part of the affordable, family-fun entertainment that the Suns and the Mercury are providing the local community ," Shurts added.

The current ArenaBowl Champions are the Arizona Rattlers, who won their third ArenaBowl championship in 2012.

Because the Milwaukee Brewers withdrew their support due to the lack of a new stadium, efforts are underway to build one similar to facilities used by the Rockford RiverHawks or the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers.

The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers are a minor league baseball team of the Midwest League, and the Class A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers.

The Timber Rattlers are a non-stock club governed by Appleton Baseball Club, Inc., which is community-owned.

The F / A-18A Hornet jet fighters are from VFA-204, the " River Rattlers ".

The school athletics teams are known as the Rattlers.

The Storm resumed full operations for the new league's 2010 season, with some players from the former roster, and once again coached by Tim Marcum and this time owned by Tampa Bay Storm Partners LLC, a group led by Todd Boren a previous partner with the Orlando Predators and the Arizona Rattlers.

The team was coached by longtime Arizona Rattlers coach Danny White and played its home games at the EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City, home of the National Basketball Association's Utah Jazz.

In April 2004, Colangelo sold the Suns, Mercury and Rattlers to an investment group headed by San Diego, California businessman, Tucson, Arizona native Robert Sarver for $ 401 million.

In 2008, the Rattlers won their first and only MLL championship by defeating the Philadelphia Barrage 16 – 15 in overtime in the semifinals and the Denver Outlaws 16 – 6 in the championship game.

The Rattlers remain one of the AFL ’ s leading franchises with the third longest tenure in one city followed only by the Tampa Bay Storm and the Orlando Predators.

However, they were defeated 48-51 by the Arizona Rattlers in the first round of the playoffs.

Blue Star didn't win another game until July, and during their mid-season drought suffered seven defeats in nine games, including a 6-1 hammering by Los Angeles Legends, a 3-0 home defeat by Fresno Fuego, and a humiliating 4-2 loss away to Lancaster Rattlers in what was that franchise's second ever victory.

He was originally signed by the Arizona Rattlers.

On September 19, he was released by the Rattlers.

The Rattlers were looking for redemption, having been demolished by San Jose 52-14 in ArenaBowl XVI and again falling short, 43-29 to the Tampa Bay Storm in the previous year's contest.

However, the SaberCats were able to get one final offensive play in before time expired, and James Roe made the most of it by catching a short pass from Mark Grieb and breaking multiple tackles en route to a spectacular 38-yard touchdown-his fourth of the game-to end the half with San Jose leading 35-28, thus preventing the Rattlers from gaining the lead with their first possession of the second half.

Rattlers coach Danny White elected to attempt to break the string of ties by attempting a two-point conversion, but San Jose defender Omarr Smith broke up a Bonner pass intended for Hunkie Cooper, leaving the SaberCats in front, 63-62.

Scoring so soon could have proven costly for San Jose, as the Rattlers regained possession with 30 seconds left and trailing just 69-62, thanks to a missed extra point by San Jose kicker Dan Frantz.

Legendary Hunkie Cooper would see limited playing time early in the 2005 season before retiring, while White, the only coach to date in the 13-year history of the Rattlers organization, would not be retained by new owner Robert Sarver.

The Tampa Bay Storm earned their AFL record fifth ArenaBowl title, by defeating the Arizona Rattlers, 43-29.

Notable former Arizona Rattlers players include former Arizona Cardinal quarterback Sherdrick Bonner, former kicker Kyle Pooler former San Diego Chargers defensive specialist Cecille Doggette, former Miami Dolphins wide receiver Randy Gatewood, former New Orleans Saints lineman Mark Tucker and former Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Chris Horn.

However, their rematch with the Rattlers in Phoenix on July 12 cost them not only their undefeated record, but also starting quarterback Mark Grieb, who suffered a season-ending broken collarbone in the SaberCats ' 59-52 loss.

In the late 1930s and early ’ 40s, the Rattlers, with their big man Ken “ Arky ” Croswell ( B. A.

The truth is that Brother Kinsky thought “ Rattlers ” would be fitting because there was already on campus Rattler Club whose members had recently begun The Rattler newspaper.

* Atlas Herrion, American football offensive lineman of several NFL teams who currently plays for the Arizona Rattlers of Arena Football 1.

In 2003, he was traded to the Rochester Rattlers.

It served as the primary grid for the local high school football team, The Navasota Rattlers, until the new stadium was constructed in 2006.

Kelly starred for the Arizona Rattlers and Carolina Cobras, retiring in 2007 as the AFL all-time rushing yards leader.

He formerly owned the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, the Arizona Sandsharks of the Continental Indoor Soccer League, the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League and the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball.

In 1992, Colangelo founded the Arena Football League's Arizona Rattlers and owned them until 2005.

Under Colangelo's guidance, the Rattlers won Arena Bowl championships in 1994 and 1997.

According to published reports, the Rattlers struggled to stay afloat as a franchise after Colangelo sold the team.

Their playoff game against the Arizona Rattlers took place on July 27, 2000 with a crowd of 9, 471 at the US Airways Center ( then named America West Arena, dubbed " the Snake Pit ") in Phoenix.

The Rattlers trumped the Destroyers with a 41-34 decision and knocking Buffalo out of the playoffs.

* In the television sitcom Reba, where the character of Van Montgomery ( Steve Howey ), played for the Arizona Rattlers ( based on the Gold Helmets and ArenaBowl XVI banner seen when Reba visits the coach ) and later the Colorado Crush.

At the start of the 2009 season, the Toronto Nationals were added to the MLL after they bought the rights to the Rochester Rattlers.

The new Rochester franchise will play at Sahlen's Stadium, the same stadium the Rochester Rattlers used at the end of their tenure in Rochester before relocating to Toronto, Ontario.

The Rattlers ' staff and roster was transferred to the new Toronto Nationals franchise ; however, the history, colors, and name of the Rattlers franchise remained in Rochester so that they could be used for a future MLL team.