In 1998, "Smashmouth Field" was constructed and totally destroyed by the team after winning the first game of the season.

Rumor has it that hostilities started as Grog & co were just trying to get hotdogs & beer to celebrate, but the venders shut down after the 3^rd quarter.

Reconstruction started and continued for months. Later that year when the complex was nearly complete the Maruader faithful threw the famous "hey we won the division" party with the headliner Aerosmith.
The music and fans were too much for the incomplete structure and it crumbled to the ground again.

1999 saw a new hope and the end of an era.  "Millennium Stadium" was born and paid for by the entire league.

The christening ceremony on New Years Eve went off without a hitch and all was good in the world, except for the last minute cancellation of the artist formerly known as Prince.

Grog in a fit of anger threw the master of ceremonies, Dick Clark, directly into the tremendous stockpile of fireworks that were prepared for the event.

Everyone agreed that the ensuing fireworks show was awesome, however, the whole location is now known as "Millennium Crater".



In 2000 a new site was chosen and construction began anew in a secret location. The newly christened stadium became named "The Rock".

Unfortunately, Grog wasn't included in the design and choice of location of this new stadium (hey, I wouldn't want to have a home game in Wisconsin either) and when he discovered where it was, The battle cry went out: "GROG SMASH ROCK! GROG BURN ROCK!? 

He and his roving hoard knocked over and burned the stadium to the ground (after a very brief side trip it to do some "cows tipping" near Milwaukee). 

The following day, destruction of "The Rock" was the lead story in newspapers all over the globe proving once again that Paper does indeed cover Rock.



2001 was a dark year for the Mauraders going 4-9. 

Taxpayers were tired about talking about funding a new stadium for a loosing team, especially after the allegations of some of the Mauraders players acting like animals on couple of "love boats" on Lake Minnetonka.

Support for the new stadium burned down, fell over and sank into the swamp.