Sydney Rebels Franchise
Timeline
April
7, 1997:
First game in franchise history.
November
5, 1997:
Alan Benes wins the first Inferno League Rookie of the
Year award.
November
6, 1998:
John Valentin is named Inferno League MVP.
January
1, 2004:
The Gobi
Mongols decide they've had enough of playing in
the middle of nowhere. They pack up and leave for Great
Britain, becoming the Manchester
United Force.
January
1, 2007:
After numerous legal disputes with the football club
Manchester United, and with fans never able to embrace
a team with such a stupid nickname, the Mancheseter
United Force head to Australia and become the Sydney
Roos.
January
1, 2010:
Although the team enjoys modest success at the gate
in New South Wales (if not on the field), wealthy Italian
industrialist Gianluca Greggio purchases the team on
a whim. He relocates the Roos to Mauritius, his favorite
vacation spot, and renames the team the Port
Louis Dodos.
January
1, 2014:
After the entire team is diagnosed with a severe lack
of self esteem due to playing on a team called the Dodos,
and after years of losing money hand over fist in tiny
Port Louis, new owner Adam Darowski brings Weaverball
back to Russia by relocating the team to Moscow and
renaming them the Cosmonauts.
January
1, 2021: Moscow's stadium, the MIR Baseball Station,
falls out of Earth orbit. Much of it burns up in the
atmosphere and the rest crashes into the Indian Ocean.
How a 75,000 seat stadium was removed from it's foundation
in Moscow and put into orbit in the first place is anybody's
guess. The franchise was considering a move before the
incident anyways, so the team is relocated to Sydney
and renamed the Rebels.
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