Years of Operation: 2008

Overall Record:  9-2

First Game: June 28, 2008 @ West Sound Saints

First Win: June 28, 2008 @ West Sound Saints

Final Game:

League Affiliation:  

North American Football League (Northwest)

Team Headquarters: Medford, OR

Founders: Rockne  Demello & Leona Westdahl

Coaches:

Home Field: Spiegelberg Stadium, S. Medford High

Titles Won: 

None

Rockne Demello had been named most valuable player in the Oregon Football League while playing in the OFL for 10 seasons, and saw the rise and fall of the Southern Oregon Heat from an up close player’s perspective.

So it was with an eye toward the future that Demello and his wife Leona Westdahl decided early in 2008 to start a local franchise in the North American Football League, a minor league adult football program in its ninth season.

“I thought I’d try something new,” says Demello. “My playing career is numbered so I thought I’d go into ownership.”

Demello says he was searching the Internet when he came across an NAFL article stating the league was expanding to the West Coast, and it seemed like a no-brainer to him that Southern Oregon get into the mix. Thus the Southern Oregon Renegades were born, and were immediately placed in the Cascade Division of the Northwest Conference.