Tim Marcum has been the head coach of the Tampa Bay Storm for the past 15 years and has spent 21 years in the AFL as an AFL head coach.  A charter member of the AFL Hall of Fame he is the winningest coach in AFL history…Has won seven ArenaBowl Championships and coached in 10 of the League’s 22 ArenaBowls…Only coach in AFL history to lead three different teams to ArenaBowl Championships (Denver, Detroit and Tampa Bay)…Is the AFL’s leader in victories (198), games coached (291) and post season victories (25)…Two-time recipient of the AFL Coach Of the Year (1987 and 1998), Marcum has overseen the Tampa Bay Storm’s development into the flagship franchise of the AFL… He is the first coach in pro football history to be elected to any professional Hall of Fame while still an active coach…Marcum began his Arena Football career in 1987 as head coach of the Denver Dynamite and won the league’s first championship…He won back-to-back titles with the Drive in 1988 and 1989…After a one-year absence from the AFL, Marcum returned to Detroit in 1991 and won ArenaBowl VI in 1992…Marcum’s five-year tenure in Detroit resulted in three ArenaBowl championships…He began his coaching career in the high schools of West Texas…He landed his first collegiate job at Ranger College, and, in 1979, guided the school to the Junior College National Championship with an 11-0 record and averaged nearly 35 points per game…In 1980, joined the coaching staff at Rice University as an assistant coach. He made the jump to the professional coaching ranks, joining the San Antonio Gunslingers of the USFL as linebackers coach in 1984 and was named the team’s defensive coordinator the following season… In 1990 he joined Steve Spurrier at Florida as the linebacker coach…Marcum was hired as the assistant head coach of the New York Knights of the World League of American Football the following season…After his foray in the World League, Marcum returned to coach the Detroit Drive for three more seasons…He then served as a defensive assistant with the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League in 1994 before returning to the AFL in Tampa…He has guided Tampa to three more Championships…A recipient of the Founder’s Award presented by the Arena Football League in 2001 and the Outstanding Achievement Award presented by American Football Coaches Association in 2004…He honed his football skills while playing quarterback at McMurry University (1965-66) under head coach Grant Teaff where he set a then single-game record 328 passing yards…Marcum, who transferred to McMurry in the fall of 1963 from Texas A&M, was a 2001 inductee into the McMurry University Athletic Hall of Honor.

Gruden has spent 17 seasons in the AFL as a player and coach that have culminated in 17 trips to the playoffs, eight trips to the ArenaBowl and produced six championships…He has coached the Orlando Predators for nine years…He has also spent the past seven years as an assistant coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers…He began his coaching career with the Nashville Kats in 1997 as the offensive coordinator…A quarterback, he spent eight seasons in the AFL, six with Tampa and two with Orlando, won four ArenaBowl with the Storm and was elected into the AFL Hall of Fame… He won 15 of 19 post-season starts, and led his teams to a .770 winning percentage…Finished his professional playing career with 21,678 yards passing and 398 touchdowns completing 1,675 of 2,775 passes in the regular season and added an additional 4,761 passing yards and 77 touchdowns in the playoffs…Gruden played collegiately for legendary head coach Howard Schnellenberger at the University of Louisville where he was a three-year starter and racked up 7,024 passing yards and 44 touchdowns, completing 572 of 1049 passes, those stats still rank in the top five in Louisville history.

Bembery was a four-year standout for the Central Florida Knights from 1984-87 and recently was inducted in the UCF Athletic Hall of Fame...He played under three head coaches Lou Saban and Red Anderson in 1984, then the first three years of the Gene McDowell era…In 1987 he helped lead the  Fighting Knights to the Division II Playoffs…Bembery played in UCF's first game against an NCAA Division I opponent, at Louisville, in 1985 and the first big attendance game when 23,760 came to watch UCF took on Wofford for Homecoming at the Citrus Bowl in 1986…Bembery's 1987 squad was simply impressive, holding opponents to just 67 points all season, just over five points allowed per game and he earned the team's Lineman of the Year…He played 11 seasons in the AFL and earned All-Arena honors six times; won two ArenaBowls with Tampa Bay; named #7 among the 20 Greatest AFL Players in 2006; 2001 Second Team 15th Anniversary Team; 1999 All-ArenaBowl Team; 1996 Second Team All-Arena; 10th Anniversary Team; 1995 Second Team All-Arena; 1993 All Star Game; 1992 First Team All-Arena; 1991 First Team All-Arena; 1990 First Team All-Arena; 1988 Second Team All-Arena…Bembery first played in with the New England Steamrollers in 1988 then went to the Albany Firebirds for four seasons, 1990-93…Bembery would reclaim his local legend status spending six seasons with the Tampa Bay Storm, 1994-99…he would play the 2000 season with the Buffalo Destroyers, before returning to the Storm in 2001…His jersey was retired by the Storm in 2002.

A sure-fire hall-of-famer, Samuels is the AFL’s all-time leading receiver and one of only six receivers in professional football history with more than 1,000 receptions, ranking fifth on that list trailing only Jerry Rice, Chris Carter, Marvin Harrison and Tim Brown…He spent 14 of 15 seasons with the Storm…He currently has the longest streak of consecutive games with a catch, 135 games; five-time All-Arena player; three-time All-Ironman team honors; three-time ArenaBowl champion; he is the franchise leader in games played, receptions, receiving yards, touchdown receptions, points scored, fumble recoveries, forced fumbles, tackles, second in all-purpose yards and interceptions and fifth is pass breakups; All-time in the AFL he currently ranks first in receptions, first in consecutive games with a catch, first in fumble recoveries, second in fumble return yards, tied for fourth in interceptions returned for a touchdown, fifth in receiving yards, tied for fifth in forced fumbles, 12th in career tackles (third all-time among linebackers), 16th in all-purpose yards and tied for 20 in interceptions...Played college football at Livingston...Younger brother is All-Pro lineman Chris Samuels of the Washington Redskins.

Dietz is the starting quarterback for the Tampa Bay Storm…He has spent two seasons with the Storm and earned AFL Rookie of the Year honors in 2007…He is the fastest quarterback in AFL history to reach 4,000 passing yards and 80 touchdowns, his 65.9 completion percentage his rookie year was the highest ever by a rookie and his 119.3 passer rating as a rookie tied for second highest all-time in the AFL for a rookie quarterback…He owns the top two passer ratings in franchise history…Dietz has thrown for 6,969 yards and 86 touchdowns in career and completed 64.9 percent of his passes.