They played their home games at Tad Gormley Stadium in City Park in New Orleans.

[2] For their lone season, Rex Stevenson would serve as head coach for the preseason and first two games before being replaced with former New Orleans Saints player Buford Jordan.

[3][4] The team was quarterbacked by Doug Coleman,[5] who had played for the Eastern New Mexico Greyhounds of NCAA Division II.

[6] Although the team was scheduled to play a 12-game regular season,[7] poor attendance and sagging revenues would prove too much for the new league.

The Thunder played in the only RFL game ever televised, on May 8, 1999, in Alabama against the eventual-champion Mobile Admirals.