Rocky Mountain Renegades football starts May 15.
After months of preparation, the Castle Rock-based football
team, part of the North American Football League, kicks off with a
home scrimmage May 15 at Castle View High School, which serves as
the Renegades home field, against the Colorado Havoc.
The game starts at 3 p.m. Tickets are $9, and kids 5 and younger
get in free.
Players for the Renegades have been pooled from Castle Rock and
Parker, with some entries from Aurora, and other surrounding
communities. Among the Renegades roster of talent is Jacob Perkins,
Willie Smalls and John Byrd.
Perkins, wearing No. 8, resides in Parker and will serve as a
wide receiver for Rocky Mountain. Standing 5 feet 11 inches and 195
pounds, Perkins played high school football in Las Vegas, before
playing collegiate ball for Colorado School of Mines.
In 2001, Perkins played for the Colorado Football Conference’s
South East Silver Backs. After, he served as a wide receivers coach
for Mines one season and a defensive backs coach two seasons
later.
Smalls, jersey No. 34, hails from Colorado Springs and is a
running back for the Renegades. Standing 5-foot-10, 225 pounds, he
was an All-Conference football player as a running back and a
linebacker at Battle Creek High School. He also was a running back
for Benedict College in Columbia, S.C.
In 2004, he played for the Raleigh Rebels as part of the
National Indoor Football League.
Byrd, whose family is also one of the owners of the
organization, has a seemingly endless list of professional football
credits. Standing 5-foot-10, 200 pounds, as a defensive back and
free safety, Byrd was an MVP in the Team USA Gladiators versus New
Zealand Haka in 2002. Among his other many credits, Byrd played
with the All-Star Rocky Mountain Reapers in the North American
Football League in 2003.
From 1999 to 2007, Byrd played in the National Indoor Football
League with the Sioux City Bandits, the Evansville Blue Cats, the
Tri-City Diesel and the Oklahoma Crude. He played for the Rapid
City Red Dogs in the United Indoor Football League in 2005, and he
was on the field for the Danville Demolition in 2007, a part of the
American Indoor Football League.
More information on the Rocky Mountain Renegades is available
online at www.rockymountainrenegades.com.
Additional information on the North American Football League is
available at www.nafl.org.
