The franchise was based at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

In 2005, the franchise moved to United Indoor Football as the Tennessee Valley Raptors, to accommodate the Vipers' af2 return to Huntsville, as which point the team owner Art Clarkson announced that the franchise would relocate to Rockford.

Coincidentally, Rockford was the site of the first-ever Arena Football game in 1986.

[3] In late January, the team changed their name to the Tennessee Valley Raptors, after the af2 objected that the Pythons would spark people to become confused with the former af2 Vipers.

Eighteen days later, they announced they would move to the CIFL to begin play there for the 2008 season.