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{{short description|Arena football team}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox indoor American football team
| name = Charlotte Rage
| logo = Charlotterage.jpg
| founded = 1992
| folded = 1996
| city = [[Charlotte Coliseum]]<br> in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]]
| colors = Burgundy, teal, gray, white<br>{{Color box|#9F1D35|border=darkgray}} {{Color box|#367588|border=darkgray}} {{Color box|gray|border=darkgray}} {{Color box|white|border=darkgray}}
| coach = [[Rick Buffington]]
| owner = [[Allen J. Schwalb]]<br>[[Joanne Faruggia]]<br>[[Cliff Stoudt]]
| league =
[[Arena Football League]] ({{AFL Year|1992}}–{{AFL Year|1996}})
| team_history =
*Charlotte Rage (1992–1996)
| no_conf_champs = 
| no_league_champs = 
| league_champs =
| playoff_appearances =
*{{AFL Year|1993}}, {{AFL Year|1994}}
| no_playoff_appearances = 2
| arena_years         =
*[[Charlotte Coliseum]] (1992–1994, 1996)
*[[Independence Arena]] (1995)
}}

The '''Charlotte Rage''' were a professional [[arena football]] team based out of [[Charlotte, North Carolina]].  They were members of the [[Arena Football League]] from 1992 to 1996.  They played their home games at the [[Charlotte Coliseum]] from 1992 to 1994 and then again in 1996 and the [[Independence Arena]] (now the [[Bojangles' Coliseum]]) in 1995.  They were owned by Allen J. Schwalb, Joanne Faruggia and former [[National Football League]] and [[United States Football League]] quarterback [[Cliff Stoudt]].

==History==
The Rage were founded as an expansion team on October 10, 1991, by motion picture financier Allen J. Schwalb, who backed some of the biggest blockbusters of the 1980s including ''[[First Blood|Rambo]]'', ''[[Rain Man]]'', ''[[Moonstruck]]'' and ''[[Thelma & Louise]]''.  They competed in the [[1992 in sports|1992]]&ndash;[[1996 in sports|1996]] seasons. They played their home games at the [[Charlotte Coliseum]], then also home of the [[Charlotte Hornets]] of the [[National Basketball Association]] from 1992 to 1994 and again in 1996.  They played the 1995 season at the much smaller [[Independence Arena]].

The team made the playoffs in 1993 and 1994, losing both times to the [[Arizona Rattlers]] in the first round.  They are best known for signing former [[Buffalo Bills]] offensive lineman [[Joe DeLamielleure]], who played only a handful of games in 1992 before retiring from football for good.  He was the only member of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] to have played in the AFL, a distinction that ended in 2017 when [[Kurt Warner]], a three-year veteran of the AFL, was inducted.

Their [[logo]] consisted of an enraged bull which was both snorting fire and surrounded by it.

The team was discontinued after the completion of the 1996 season.

The AFL would return to the Coliseum for the 2003 [[Arena Football League]] season when the [[Carolina Cobras]] moved from [[Raleigh, North Carolina]].

===Season-by-season===
{{Main article|List of Charlotte Rage seasons}}

==Players==

===Arena Football Hall of Famers===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
| colspan="5" style= "background: #367588; color: white" align="center"| '''Charlotte Rage Hall of Famers'''
|-
!width=60px style="background: #9F1D35; color: white" |No.
!style="background: #9F1D35; color: white" |Name
!style="background: #9F1D35; color: white" |Year Inducted
!style="background: #9F1D35; color: white" |Position(s)
!style="background: #9F1D35; color: white" |Years w/ Rage
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| ?? || [[Sam Hernandez]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2011 || style="text-align:center;"|[[Offensive lineman|OL]]/[[Defensive lineman|DL]] || style="text-align:center;"| 1992
|}

===All-Arena players===
The following Rage players have been named to [[All-Arena]] Teams:
* '''OL/DL''' [[Robert Stewart (Arena football)|Robert Stewart]] (2)
* '''K''' [[Mike Black (kicker)|Mike Black]] (1)
* '''OS''' [[Khevin Pratt]] (1)

==Head coaches==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan="2" style="width:140px;"|Name
! rowspan="2" | Term
! colspan="4" | Regular season
! colspan="2" | Playoffs
! rowspan="2" | Awards
|-
! W
! L
! T
! Win%
! W
! L
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Babe Parilli]]
| style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL Year|1992}}
| style="text-align:center;"|3
| style="text-align:center;"|7
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|{{winperc|3|7}}
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Steve Patton]]
| style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL Year|1993}}
| style="text-align:center;"|6
| style="text-align:center;"|6
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|{{winperc|6|6}}
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Galen Hall]]
| style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL Year|1994}}
| style="text-align:center;"|5
| style="text-align:center;"|7
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|{{winperc|5|7}}
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Doug Kay]]
| style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL Year|1995}}
| style="text-align:center;"|5
| style="text-align:center;"|7
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|{{winperc|5|7}}
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|[[Rick Buffington]]
| style="text-align:center;"|{{AFL Year|1996}}
| style="text-align:center;"|5
| style="text-align:center;"|9
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|{{winperc|5|9}}
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|0
| style="text-align:center;"|
|}

==External links==
* [http://www.arenafan.com/teams/?page=history&team=18&year=1996 Charlotte Rage at ArenaFan.com]

{{Charlotte Rage}}
{{Defunct Arena Football League franchises}}

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