New Orleans VooDoo Arena Football
March-July, 2012

Let's start out with a definition. Football Withdrawal Syndrome: "The agonizing mental process of accepting that football season is finally over." However, the New Orleans VooDoo of the Arena Football League has the answer to this dilemma. "Football ain't over till we say it is."

The VooDoo open their 2012 season on Sunday, March 18 at home against the Philadelphia Soul, starting at 3 p.m. in the New Orleans Arena. Later that same week the Milwaukee Mustangs come to town, on Friday, March 23 at 7 p.m. Season and single-game tickets are already on sale through Ticketmaster and the Arena box office.

The VooDoo play nine of their 18 games at home between mid-March and the third week of July. After the end of the regular season, playoffs will begin and the top two finishing teams will meet in the 2012 Arena Bowl to be played in the New Orleans Arena on August 10, 2012
The VooDoo resumed play in 2011 after sitting out the 2009-10 seasons and they rejoined the Arena Football League during the league's first year of an 18-game schedule. The league has 18 teams divided into two conferences with two divisions each, broken down geographically.

The VooDoo play in the South Division of the AFL's American Conference, along with four other teams in Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville and Georgia. During the season the VooDoo play each of these teams twice, once at home and once away, and they also play every other team in the conference.

Team History

Although the VooDoo was founded in 2002, it didn't enter league play until 2004. That season, playing 16 games, the VooDoo had a stellar record of 11-5, the best-ever first season by an AFL team. They won the National Conference Southern Division Championship, but in the playoffs they lost a close, hard-fought game to the Colorado Crush, 47-44.

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In 2005 the VooDoo finished with a respectable 9-7 record but it wasn't enough to get them into the playoffs. The following season, because of Hurricane Katrina damage to the Arena, the team had to sit it out. Returning in 2007, the team posted a 5-11 record, missing the playoffs for the second straight time. In 2008 the team sported a division-leading 6-2 record midway through the season, then collapsed in the second half, finish at .500 with an 8-8 record and out of the playoffs again. In 2011 the VooDoo finished with a 3-15 record.

The team was given the name in recognition of the city's reputation as a center for the West African and West Indian practice of voodoo, introduced here in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Appropriately, the VooDoo's official mascots are known as Bones and Mojo. Their cheerleaders are called the VooDoo Dolls.

VooDoo 2012 Home Schedule

The VooDoo's 2012 home game schedule is as follows:

Ticket Information

Season tickets for the VooDoo's nine regular season home can be purchased by calling 1-888-277-5526. To learn more about the team visit their website at www.aflvoodoo.com.