Atlanta Vultures
# Atlanta Vultures

The Atlanta Vultures were a professional indoor football team and a member of American Indoor Football (AIF) that played part of the 2016 season. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the Vultures were to play their home games at the Georgia International Convention Center.

The Vultures are Atlanta's second AIF team, following the Atlanta Sharks who began play in 2014 and folded during the 2015 season.

The Vultures ran into operational issues when they found their home arena lacked quality playing turf. The Vultures would end up cancelling all home games and played three road games during the season, winning two of the three games. However, after winning the third game against the Savannah Steam on April 17, the AIF ruled that the Vultures had played the game using illegal players and reversed the score of the game (essentially making it a forfeit). The Vultures folded and took down their website later that week.

## Statistics and records

### Season results

| Season | League | Division | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Postseason results |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Season | League | Division | Finish | Wins | Losses | Ties | Postseason results |
| 2016 | AIF | Southern | folded | 1 | 5 | 0 | |

### Head coaches' records

| Name | Term | Regular Season | Regular Season | Regular Season | Regular Season | Playoffs | Playoffs | Awards |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Name | Term | W | L | T | Win% | W | L | Awards |
| Cedric Roach | 2016 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .333 | — | — | |

## 2016 season

Key:  Win  Tie  Loss  Bye

### Exhibition

All start times were local to home team

| Week | Day | Date | Kickoff | Opponent | Results | Results | Location |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Week | Day | Date | Kickoff | Opponent | Score | Record | Location |
| 1 | Sunday | March 6 | 3:05pm | at West Michigan Ironmen | L 29–63 | 0–1 | L. C. Walker Arena |
| 2 | Sunday | May 22 | 7:05pm | South Carolina Ravens | | | Georgia International Convention Center |

### Regular season

All start times were local to home team

| Week | Day | Date | Kickoff | Opponent | Results | Results | Location |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Week | Day | Date | Kickoff | Opponent | Score | Record | Location |
| 1 | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE |
| 2 | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE |
| 3 | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE |
| 4 | Sunday | March 20 | 4:00pm | Savannah Steam | Cancelled | | Georgia International Convention Center |
| 5 | Saturday | March 26 | 7:00pm | at Georgia Firebirds | W 40–38 | 1–0 | Albany Civic Center |
| 6 | Sunday | April 3 | 7:05pm | Florida Tarpons | Cancelled | | Georgia International Convention Center |
| 7 | Saturday | April 9 | 7:05pm | at Columbus Lions | L 8–65 | 1–1 | Columbus Civic Center |
| 8 | Sunday | April 17 | 7:05pm | at Savannah Steam | L 19–32 | 1–2 | Savannah Civic Center |
| 9 | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE |
| 10 | Sunday | May 1 | 7:05pm | Myrtle Beach Freedom | | | Georgia International Convention Center |
| 11 | Saturday | May 7 | 7:05pm | Central Florida Jaguars | | | Georgia International Convention Center |
| 12 | Monday | May 16 | 7:00pm | at Myrtle Beach Freedom | | | Myrtle Beach Convention Center |
| 13 | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE |
| 14 | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE | BYE |

* ↑ The Atlanta Vultures actually won this game 32–19, however, the AIF ruled they had used illegal players and reversed the score instead of just changing the game to a forfeit. The Vultures would fold later that week. Remaining games were all considered 0–2 losses by forfeit in the AIF standings

### Standings

2016 AIF Southern standingsviewtalkedit :

| Team | W | L | T | PCT | PF | PA | PF (Avg.) | PA (Avg.) | STK |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Columbus Lions | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 599 | 174 | 74.9 | 21.8 | W8 |
| Florida Tarpons | 7 | 1 | 0 | .875 | 489 | 202 | 61.1 | 25.3 | W4 |
| Myrtle Beach Freedom | 4 | 4 | 0 | .500 | 259 | 307 | 32.4 | 38.4 | L1 |
| Savannah Steam | 3 | 5 | 0 | .375 | 264 | 336 | 33.0 | 42.0 | L1 |
| Georgia Firebirds | 3 | 5 | 0 | .375 | 236 | 350 | 29.5 | 43.8 | L2 |
| Central Florida Jaguars | 2 | 6 | 0 | .250 | 219 | 483 | 27.4 | 60.4 | L1 |
| Atlanta Vultures | 1 | 5 | 0 | .167 | 67 | 141 | 11.2 | 23.5 | L5 |
