| Mississippi Hound Dogs | |
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| Established 2011 Folded 2012 Played in Tupelo, Mississippi at the BancorpSouth Arena | |
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| League/conference affiliations | |
Ultimate Indoor Football League (2012)
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Current uniform | |
| Team colors | Blue Suede, Sky Blue, Cream |
| Personnel | |
| Owner(s) | UIFL |
| Head coach | Martino Theus |
| Team history | |
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| Championships | |
| League championships (0) | |
| Conference championships (0) | |
| Division championships (0) | |
| Home arena(s) | |
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The Mississippi Hound Dogs were a professional indoor football team based in Tupelo, Mississippi. The Hound Dogs played their home games at the BancorpSouth Arena as a member of the Ultimate Indoor Football League's Southern Conference.[1][2]
The Hound Dogs name is an homage to Tupelo's best-known native, the "King of Rock 'n Roll" Elvis Presley, in particular his cover version of "Hound Dog", which became that song's best-known version and one of Presley's best-known recordings in general.[3] (They are the second football team to use the name in homage to Presley; the first, the Memphis Hound Dogs, was a proposed NFL expansion team that was not accepted to the league upon its expansion in 1995.)
The Hound Dogs were the third indoor football team to play in Tupelo, after the Tupelo FireAnts of the National Indoor Football League (2001–2004) and the Mississippi MudCats of the American Indoor Football Association (2007).
- ^ "Tupelo, MS Announced as 4th Uifl Expansion Team". www.oursportscentral.com. OurSports Central. June 13, 2011. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
- ^ John L. Pitts (June 13, 2011). "Indoor football returning to Tupelo". www.djournal.com. Daily Journal. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
- ^ Gene Phelps (September 27, 2011). "Ain't nothin' but Hound Dogs". www.djournal.com. Daily Journal. Retrieved October 26, 2015.