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| Founded | 2015 |
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| Folded | 2018 |
| Team history |
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| Based in | Fair Park Coliseum inDallas,Texas |
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| League | Champions Indoor Football (2016–2018)
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| Colors | Blue, silver, black, white |
| Personnel | |
| Head coach | Larry Hendrix, Jr. |
| General manager | Floyd L. Smith IV |
 Current season | |
TheDallas Marshals were a member ofChampions Indoor Football and based inDallas,Texas. The Marshals were scheduled to play their home games at theFair Park Coliseum, but all remaining Marshals games were listed as postponed as of April 21, 2018. The team announced it had ceased operations on April 27.
The Mesquite Marshals were announced on June 30, 2015, to play out ofMesquite Arena as part ofChampions Indoor Football (CIF). They announced their head coach and released their uniforms the following day.Doug Bland, one of the future owners, attended aTexas Revolution game in nearbyAllen the previous season and helped found the Marshals. The Marshals finished their inaugural season with a record of 2–10, finishing in sixth place in theCIF Southern Division. After the team's first season, they were renamed to the Dallas Marshals.
In 2017, after their second season, part owner Doug Bland also left the organization to found another team in the CIF, theQuad City Steamwheelers, selling the entire team to Bruce Badgett. Bland also sold Mesquite Arena to another party.[1]
Prior to their third season, on December 21, 2017, the team announced their move to Dallas and theFair Park Coliseum due to arena lease issues in negotiations with the new arena owners.[2] Before the 2018 season, the Marshals canceled their first home exhibition game for February 17.[3] The played their next two regular season home games on March 3 and 10, however, they canceled their next two for March 24 and April 14 on the day of the games.[4][5] After the April 14 postponed game, the CIF issued a statement that a decision concerning the team is pending.[6] The Marshals played an away game at the Texas Revolution on April 21, and the Fair Park Coliseum listed all remaining Marshals' games as postponed. On April 27, the team suspended operations for the rest of the season.[7]
The Mesquite Marshals unveiled their uniforms on July 1, 2015. Thehelmets are white with a green stripe running parallel to a gold stripe along with a white facemask. The logo of a Marshal with a star on a hat is depicted over the word "MESQUITE" on top of the word "MARSHALS" in Ewert font. Their home uniforms consist of green jerseys and stripe-free green pants, with red outlining the white numbers in Ewert, along with green and gold stripes along the shoulder pads. The team's road uniforms have white jerseys and blank white pants. Green numbers (Ewert) with a thin layer of gold surrounding them can be seen on the road jerseys.
| League champions | Conference champions | Division champions | Playoff berth | League leader |
| Season | League | Conference | Division | Regular season | Postseason results | |||
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| Finish | Wins | Losses | Ties | |||||
| 2016 | CIF | Southern | 6th | 2 | 10 | 0 | ||
| 2017 | CIF | South | 5th | 7 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 2018 | CIF | South | Folded | 1 | 5 | 0 | ||
| Totals | 10 | 20 | 0 | All-time regular season record | ||||
| 0 | 0 | — | All-time postseason record | |||||
| 10 | 20 | 0 | All-time regular season and postseason record | |||||
| Week | Date | Opponent | Result | Record | Game site |
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| 1 | February 20 | Dallas–Fort Worth Hawks (exhibition) | L 30–31 | Mesquite Arena | |
| 2 | Bye week | ||||
| 3 | March 5 | atDodge City Law | L 42–62 | 0–1 | United Wireless Arena |
| 4 | March 12 | Sioux City Bandits | W 27–26 | 1–1 | Mesquite Arena |
| 5 | March 19 | atTexas Revolution | L 31-41 | 1-2 | Allen Event Center |
| 6 | March 26 | atDuke City Gladiators | L 24-70 | 1-3 | Tingley Coliseum |
| 7 | April 2 | Texas Revolution | L 32-51 | 1-4 | Mesquite Arena |
| 8 | April 9 | Amarillo Venom | L 59-60 | 1-5 | Mesquite Arena |
| 9 | April 16 | atBloomington Edge | L 35-73 | 1-6 | US Cellular Coliseum |
| 10 | Bye week | ||||
| 11 | April 30 | atSan Angelo Bandits | L 41-54 | 1-7 | Foster Communications Coliseum |
| 12 | May 7 | Duke City Gladiators | L 43-47 | 1-8 | Mesquite Arena |
| 13 | Bye week | ||||
| 14 | May 20 | at Texas Revolution | L 43-92 | 1-9 | Allen Event Center |
| 15 | May 28 | Dodge City Law | L 27-38 | 1-10 | Mesquite Arena |
| 16 | June 4 | Texas Revolution | W 75-74 | 2-10 | Mesquite Arena |
| Week | Date | Opponent | Result | Record | Game site |
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| 1 | March 4 | CenTex Cavalry | W 55–37 | 1-0 | Mesquite Arena |
| 2 | Bye week | ||||
| 3 | March 18 | atAmarillo Venom | L 32-59 | 1–1 | Amarillo Civic Center |
| 4 | March 23 | atTexas Revolution | L 18–61 | 1–2 | Allen Event Center |
| 5 | April 1 | atDodge City Law | L 19-56 | 1-3 | United Wireless Arena |
| 6 | April 8 | Salina Liberty | W 36-19 | 2-3 | Mesquite Arena |
| 7 | April 15 | atCenTex Cavalry | W 48-41 | 3-3 | Bell County Expo Center |
| 8 | April 22 | Texas Revolution | W 73-58 | 4-3 | Mesquite Arena |
| 9 | Bye week | ||||
| 10 | May 6 | CenTex Cavalry | W 72-47 | 5-3 | Mesquite Arena |
| 11 | May 14 | atCenTex Cavalry | W 58-52 | 6-3 | Bell County Expo Center |
| 12 | May 20 | Wichita Force | L 27-34 | 6-4 | Mesquite Arena |
| 13 | May 27 | atKansas City Phantoms | L 42-48 | 6-5 | Silverstein Eye Centers Arena |
| 14 | June 3 | Omaha Beef | W 62-55 | 7-5 | Mesquite Arena |
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