Pompano Beach Yellowtails

Pompano Beach Yellowtails

Founded: September 22, 2008

For years Pompano Beach has been known for its success and passion for high school football (Ely High Tigers, Pompano High Tornados). This includes our youth leagues as well (Pompano Tigers, Pompano Eagles, Pompano Cowboys, and Pompano Chiefs). Its success and fan support are amongst the best in South Florida.

Hoping to feed off of the football-crazed community, local Pastor of the New Life Christian Center for Excellence, Dr. Alex L. Jenkins, is looking to join this tradition with his adult amateur football team, the Pompano Beach Yellowtails. Jenkins, the team owner and founder, believes that the Pompano Beach area football tradition will help the team compete.

"Pompano Beach has a lot of raw football talent," says Jenkins. "Because of that, I expect us to make a splash in this league this year."

Jenkins, who is originally from the Space Coast area of Florida, Cocoa Beach, started the team because he wanted to do something to help the many young men who seem to have nothing else to do in the community. He wanted to offer them a "second chance" to succeed. The Yellowtails owner and founder played High School football for the Cocoa High School Tigers from 1980 thru 1984. His alma mater won the FHSAA Class 3A State Championship in 2008.

In 2008, Dr. Jenkins began putting together a team in Pompano Beach and subsequently contacted league officials of the Florida Football Alliance (FFA). The ball got rolling from there.

"I got tired of driving around in the neighborhood and seeing young men just hanging out doing nothing now," said. Jenkins. “Kids who were very talented during their playing days at the high school level, yet couldn’t get the grades to attend college for one reason or another. Guys who wanted to continue playing the game of football beyond high school. So, I started working on organizing a team in Pompano Beach."

In the fall of 2008, the Yellowtails joined the Florida Football Alliance (FFA), as an expansion team for the 2009 season. The FFA, a full-contact adult amateur American minor league for men ages 18 and older, was comprised of eighteen teams throughout the State of Florida and was founded in the spring of 2007.

During their inaugural season, the Yellowtails did moderately well. Pompano Beach needed to win just one of its two remaining games during the 2009 campaign in order to qualify for the playoffs.

However, it was not to be. The Yellowtails closed out their season with consecutive losses to the Miami Magic City Bulls and the East Coast Reapers, finishing with an overall mark of 3-7 (.300). Their win-loss record put them at 4th place in the East Division of the FFA’s American Conference.

Due to travel considerations, our team decided to leave the FFA and join the Southeast Football League (SEFL) for the 2010 season.

Founded in 1994, the SEFL is the oldest organized adult amateur football league in the State of Florida. The 2010 season would find the SEFL consisting of twenty member teams, a new record for league franchise membership. All teams were from Florida. To the north as far as Gainesville, and as far south as Key West.

Pompano Beach’s first season in the SEFL was as exciting as it was rewarding. Despite having a less than impressive win-loss record (3-6-1), the Yellowtails were able to qualify for the playoffs.

Awarded the #5 seed in the AFC, Pompano Beach traveled north to Poinciana (Kissimmee area) where they would play the AFC’s #4 seed, the Florida Crusaders (6-4), at Liberty High School in a Wildcard Playoff game on Saturday, May 1st. The game was delayed for a little over an hour as the field had not been marked and lined prior to the arrival of both teams. Once the field problems were solved, the game began. Not given much of a chance against the heavily favored Crusaders, the Yellowtails fought, scratched and clawed their way to a 12-12 tie at the end of regulation.

Then, late in the first overtime period, Pompano Beach was driving down deep into Crusaders territory. By all appearances, it appeared that the Yellowtails were positioning themselves for the victory and an upset. But, the Crusaders were able to recover a fumble off of a Pompano Beach miscue. The Crusaders took advantage of the turnover, and marched down into Yellowtails territory. With just 0:10 left, Florida kicked the game winning field goal, and came away with a 15-12 win.

All-Time Regular Season Win/Loss Record: 6-13-1

All-Time Post-season Win/Loss Record: 0-1

2009 Season Schedule/Results: 3-7-0

01/10/09 – North Florida Rams 34, Yellowtails 14 01/17/09 – Polk County War Eagles 28, Yellowtails 18 01/24/09 – Yellowtails 14, Broward County Bears 0 01/31/09 – Bye Week 02/07/09 – Yellowtails 16, South Florida Broncos 14 02/14/09 – Miami Magic City Bulls 51, Yellowtails 0 02/21/09 – East Coast Reapers 48, Yellowtails 12 02/28/09 – Broward County Bears 22, Yellowtails 14 03/07/09 – Bye Week 03/14/09 – Yellowtails 21, South Florida Broncos 20 03/21/09 – Miami Magic City Bulls 37, Yellowtails 6 03/28/09 – East Coast Reapers 52, Yellowtails 0

2010 Season Schedule/Results: 3-6-1

02/13/10 – Knights of Miami 14, Yellowtails 0 02/20/10 – South Florida Broncos 7, Yellowtails 6 02/27/10 – Yellowtails 6, Hallandale Cardinals 0 [F] 03/06/10 – Yellowtails 22, Lauderdale Lions 0 03/13/10 – Yellowtails 19, Florida Kings 7 03/20/10 – South Florida Broncos 18, Yellowtails 12 03/27/10 – Brevard Warriors 52, Yellowtails 0 04/03/10 – Bye Week 04/14/10 – Yellowtails 6, Lauderdale Lions 6 (tie) 04/17/10 – Florida Kings 16, Yellowtails 6 04/24/10 – Palm Beach Mariners 42, Yellowtails 12

2010 Post-Season Schedule/Results: 0-1

AFC Wildcard Playoff Game: Liberty High School in Poinciana, FL

05/01/10 – Florida Crusaders 15, Yellowtails 12 (OT)

All-Time Series Record vs. Opponents:

SEFL. ..

Lauderdale Lions (1-0-1) Florida Kings (1-1) Hallandale Cardinals (1-0) [F] Knights of Miami (0-1) Brevard Warriors (0-1) Palm Beach Mariners (0-1) South Florida Broncos (0-2) Florida Crusaders (0-1)

FFA. ..

South Florida Broncos (2-0) Broward County Bears (1-1) North Florida Rams (0-1) Polk County War Eagles (0-1) Miami Magic City Bulls (0-2) East Coast Reapers (0-2)