It is also notable as the team where Markus Kuhn played before going to college in the US and later being drafted in the seventh round by the New York Giants.

The following season, the Longhorns won their division and, after defeating the Munich Cowboys in both promotion round games, earned the right to play in the GFL.

[2] In Germany's highest football league, the club finished fourth in all of its first three seasons, on the same winning percentage each year, and qualified for the playoffs on all three occasions.

The Braunschweig Lions, Kiel Baltic Hurricanes and Berlin Adler were too strong of opposition to overcome in the first round, but the Longhorns achieved respectable results in each encounter.

[2] After the recent decline of the football team, it was rumored that the club would merge with the Rhein-Neckar Bandits from nearby Mannheim or at least form some kind of cooperation.