Texas Terror
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Texas Terror logo
The Texas Terror was a franchise in the Arena Football League, a league which plays a scaled-down version of American football in venues primarily designed for ice hockey or basketball. The Terror played in the 1996 and 1997 Arena seasons. Their home games were played at the Compaq Center, previously known as the Houston Summit and also at that time home to the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. The Terror's logo appeared to be a stylized representation of Frankenstein's monster holding a football.
The 1996 season was an unmitigated disaster, with the Terror notching only one win, coming against another first-year team, the ill-fated Minnesota Fighting Pike. The 1997 season was considerably better with a record of 6-8, but the attendance was abysmal, especially given the size of the Houston market. After the season, the decision was made to remake the franchise and scrap both the existing logo and team name, and the team was renamed the Houston Thunderbears.