The Weinheim Longhorns are an American football team from Weinheim , Germany . The club's greatest success was promotion to the German Football League in 2006, where it spent four seasons. During this time, the club reached the playoffs on three occasions. 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 . Kuhn later became the first German-born player to score an NFL touchdown.
10-512: The club was formed in 1990 as the football department of TSG Weinheim . The Longhorns entered league football in 1991, playing in the tier four Verbandsliga Baden-Württemberg. The club's early years were of limited success, playing in the state leagues of Baden-Württemberg as a mid-table team. Things only improved for the side in 1999 when it won the Oberliga title unbeaten and entered the tier three Regionalliga Mitte for 2000. Weinheim played in
20-514: Is a German association football club from the city of Weinheim , Baden-Württemberg. The origins of the club go back to the founding on 20 August 1862 of the gymnastics club Turnverein Weinheim . In 1878 the club split into two branches with the formation of TV II Weinheim . The breakaway club took on the name Turngenossenschaft Weinheim in 1883 before becoming Turngenossenschaft Jahn 1878 Weinheim in 1907. On 29 June 1946, parent club TV Weinheim
30-581: The 2012 season in the Regionalliga, the club's troubles continued, finishing last after losing all ten season games, suffering another relegation, now to the Oberliga Baden-Würtemberg, where it finished second-last in 2013 and 2014. The team improved in 2015 and won the league, earning promotion to the Regionalliga Mitte . Recent seasons of the club: TSG Weinheim TSG Weinheim
40-582: The Regionalliga Mitte again. 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. The Longhorns management, however, declared that while the two clubs have had talks about joint training seasons the club would retain its independence and not merge with the Bandits . In
50-510: The Regionalliga for the next four seasons, achieving good results, and finally won the league in 2004 after another unbeaten season. The club gained entry to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2005 and finished in third place in the southern division in its first year there. The following season, the Longhorns won their division and, after defeating the Munich Cowboys in both promotion round games, earned
60-556: The club formed an American Football department, the Weinheim Longhorns . In 1998 another local club, FV Weinheim , failed financially and its football department subsequently became part of TSG . The new team took to the field under the name TSG Weinheim 62/09 and advanced to play in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (IV) in 1999. They were sent down after a 15th-place result, and over the next four seasons repeated
70-543: The cycle of promotion followed by immediate relegation. Between 2004 and 2009 the team played as part of the Verbandsliga Nordbaden and returned to the now fifth tier Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2009. The club was relegated from the Oberliga again in 2011. Since then the club took part in the promotion round to the Oberliga twice after finishing runner-up in the Verbandsliga, in 2012 and 2016, but on both occasions
80-627: The first round, but the Longhorns achieved respectable results in each encounter. The 2010 season was far less successful, with the team failing to win a single game and finishing last in their division. It had to face the Wiesbaden Phantoms in the relegation round and lost both of these games, too, and was consequently relegated to the GFL2. The 2011 season, one level lower, proved to be not much more successful. The team lost 12 of its 14 season games, came last once more and dropped another level, now to
90-570: The right to play in the GFL. 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. As the lowest-placed southern team in the playoffs, it had to encounter the best team from the north on each of those three occasions. The Braunschweig Lions , Kiel Baltic Hurricanes and Berlin Adler were too strong of opposition to overcome in
100-523: Was reunited with TGS Jahn Weinheim and was also joined by DJK Schwarz-Weiß 1923 Weinheim to form TSG 1862 Weinheim . Throughout its early history the Weinheim club remained an anonymous side in lower tier local competition. Following a 1994 Landesliga Nordbaden (V) title win TSG broke through to the Amateurliga Nordbaden (IV) where they played as a middling side over the next four seasons. In 1990,
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