2004 Berlin Thunder season
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The 2004 Berlin Thunder
season was the sixth season for the team in the NFL Europe
League.
Berlin Thunder
The Berlin Thunder were a professional American football team in NFL Europe, which was a springtime American football league serving primarily as a developmental league for the National Football League. Most of the players were young American professional players assigned by NFL teams to receive...
season was the sixth season for the team in the NFL Europe
NFL Europe
NFL Europe was an American football league which operated in Europe from 1991 until 2007. Backed by the National Football League , the largest professional American football league in the United States, it was founded as the World League of American Football to serve as a type of spring league...
League.
Free Agent Draft
| Draft order | Player name | Position | College | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round | Choice | |||
| 1 | 1 | James Thornton | CB | Morris Brown |
| 2 | 7 | T. J. Bingham | DE | Ouichita Baptist |
| 3 | 18 | Yubrenal Isabelle | LB | Virginia |
| 4 | 19 | Troy Andrew | G | Duke |
| 5 | 30 | DeShaun Hill | S | USC |
| 6 | 31 | DeVonte Peterson | DT | Catawba |
| 7 | 42 | Dwayne Pierce | G | LSU |
| 9 | 43 | Mike Malan | FB | Brown |
| 9 | 54 | Oliver Celestin Oliver Celestin Oliver Celestin, Jr. is an American football safety who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football at Texas Southern.... |
S | Texas Southern |
| 10 | 55 | Keith Heyward-Johnson | CB | Oregon State |
| 11 | 66 | Jeff Grzeskowiak | T | Akron |
| 12 | 67 | Michael Jennings Michael Jennings (American football) Michael Jennings is an American football wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League-High school years:... |
WR | Florida State |
Staff
Roster
Schedule
| Week | Date | Kickoff (CEST Central European Summer Time Central European Summer Time is one of the names of the Daylight saving time offset using the UTC offset of UTC+02:00, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in most European countries. During the winter, Central European Time is used... ) |
Opponent | Results | Game site | Attendance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final score | Team record | ||||||
| 1 | Sunday, April 4 | 4:00 p.m. | Scottish Claymores 2004 Scottish Claymores season The 2004 Scottish Claymores season was the tenth and final season for the team in the NFL Europe League.-Free Agent Draft:-Roster:-Schedule:-Week 1: at Berlin Thunder:-Week 2: at Rhein Fire:-Week 3: vs Amsterdam Admirals:... |
W 20–14 | 1–0 | Olympic Stadium Olympic Stadium (Berlin) The Olympiastadion is a sports stadium in Berlin, Germany. There have been two stadiums on the site: the present facility, and one that is called the Deutsches Stadion which was built for the aborted 1916 Summer Olympics. Both were designed by members of the same family, the first by Otto March... |
14,257 |
| 2 | Saturday, April 10 | 7:00 p.m. | at Amsterdam Admirals 2004 Amsterdam Admirals season The 2004 Amsterdam Admirals season was the tenth season for the team in the NFL Europe League.-Free Agent Draft:-Staff:-Roster:-Week 1: at Frankfurt Galaxy:-Week 2: vs Berlin Thunder:-Week 3: at Scottish Claymores:... |
W 28–17 | 2–0 | Amsterdam ArenA Amsterdam ArenA Amsterdam Arena is a stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is the largest stadium in the nation and it was built from 1993 to 1996 at a cost of €140 million, and was officially opened on 14 August 1996. It has been used for association football, American football, concerts, and other events... |
10,763 |
| 3 | Sunday, April 18 | 4:00 p.m. | Cologne Centurions 2004 Cologne Centurions season The 2004 Cologne Centurions season was the inaugural season for the team in the NFL Europe League.-Free Agent Draft:-Staff:-Roster:-Schedule:-Week 1: at Rhein Fire:-Week 2: vs Frankfurt Galaxy:-Week 3: at Berlin Thunder:... |
W 35–31 | 3–0 | Olympic Stadium | 12,036 |
| 4 | Saturday, April 24 | 7:00 p.m. | at Rhein Fire 2004 Rhein Fire season The 2004 Rhein Fire season was the tenth season for the team in the NFL Europe League.-Free Agent Draft:-Staff:-Roster:-Week 1: vs Cologne Centurions:-Week 2: vs Scottish Claymores:-Week 3: at Frankfurt Galaxy:-Week 4: vs Berlin Thunder:... |
W 14–10 | 4–0 | Arena AufSchalke Veltins-Arena Veltins-Arena is a football stadium in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It opened in 2001, as the new home ground for German Bundesliga club Schalke 04.... |
20,242 |
| 5 | Sunday, May 2 | 4:00 p.m. | Amsterdam Admirals | W 33–29 | 5–0 | Olympic Stadium | 12,909 |
| 6 | Saturday, May 8 | 7:00 p.m. | at Cologne Centurions | L 27–28 | 5–1 | RheinEnergieStadion RheinEnergieStadion The RheinEnergieStadion is a football stadium in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was built on the site of the two previous Müngersdorfer stadiums. It is the home of the local Bundesliga team, 1. FC Köln. The stadium was one of the 12 hosting the 2006 FIFA World Cup... |
10,164 |
| 7 | Sunday, May 16 | 4:00 p.m. | Rhein Fire | W 33–20 | 6–1 | Olympic Stadium | 15,429 |
| 8 | Saturday, May 22 | 7:00 p.m. | at Frankfurt Galaxy 2004 Frankfurt Galaxy season The 2004 Frankfurt Galaxy season was the 12th season for the team in the NFL Europe League.-Free Agent Draft:-Staff:-Roster:-Week 1: vs Amsterdam Admirals:-Week 2: at Cologne Centurions:-Week 3: vs Rhein Fire:-Week 4: at Amsterdam Admirals:... |
W 31–27 | 7–1 | Waldstadion Commerzbank-Arena The Commerzbank-Arena is a sports stadium in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. Commonly known by its original name, Waldstadion , the stadium opened in 1925. The stadium has been upgraded several times since then; the most recent remodelling was its redevelopment as a football-only stadium in preparation... |
30,812 |
| 9 | Saturday, May 29 | 3:00 p.m. | at Scottish Claymores | W 27–19 | 8–1 | Hampden Park Hampden Park Hampden Park is a football stadium in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, Scotland. The 52,063 capacity venue serves as the national stadium of football in Scotland... |
9,153 |
| 10 | Sunday, June 6 | 4:00 p.m. | Frankfurt Galaxy | W 41–0 | 9–1 | Olympic Stadium | 19,175 |
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| 11 | Saturday, June 12 | 6:00 p.m. | Frankfurt Galaxy | W 30–24 | 10–1 | Arena AufSchalke | 35,413 |