Mississippi Hound Dogs

Mississippi Hound Dogs
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General information
Founded2011
Folded2012
HeadquarteredTupelo, Mississippi
at the BancorpSouth Arena
ColorsBlue Suede, Sky Blue, Cream
     
Personnel
OwnerUIFL
Head coachMartino Theus
Team history
  • Mississippi Hound Dogs (2012)
Home fields
League / conference affiliations
Ultimate Indoor Football League (2012)
  • Southern Conference (2012)

The Mississippi Hound Dogs were a professional indoor football team based in Tupelo, Mississippi. The Hound Dogs played their home games at the BancorpSouth Arena as a member of the Ultimate Indoor Football League's Southern Conference.

The Hound Dogs name is an homage to Tupelo's best-known native, the "King of Rock 'n Roll" Elvis Presley, in particular his cover version of "Hound Dog", which became that song's best-known version and one of Presley's best-known recordings in general. (They are the second football team to use the name in homage to Presley; the first, the Memphis Hound Dogs, was a proposed NFL expansion team that was not accepted to the league upon its expansion in 1995.)

The Hound Dogs were the third indoor football team to play in Tupelo, after the Tupelo FireAnts of the National Indoor Football League (2001–2004) and the Mississippi MudCats of the American Indoor Football Association (2007).