2007 Tampa Bay Storm season The 2007 Tampa Bay Storm season was the 21st season for the team in the Arena Football League and 17th in Tampa . They tried to improve upon their 7 - 9 record from 2006 in the Southern Division , and looking to get back to the playoffs for the first time since 2005 . The apparent cause of their turnaround from an 0 - 5 start was the replacement of John Kaleo at quarterback with Brett Dietz . Whereas they were a combined 1 - 6 under Kaleo and the injured Stoney Case , they were 8 - 1 under Dietz . On June 13 , two weeks after being placed on " left squad " , T . T . Toliver was released by the Storm and subsequently signed with the Orlando Predators . On June 23 , they clinched the # 3 seed in the National Conference , and hosted a home playoff game vs . the # 6 seed in the National Conference , the Columbus Destroyers . Unfortunately for the Storm , Columbus beat the Storm with a 56 - 55 win . Coaching . Tim Marcum , head coach since 1995 , entered his 13th year as Storm head coach . Stats . Special Teams . Kicking . < nowiki > * < / nowiki > Waived Regular season . Week 1 : vs Orlando Predators . " at the St . Pete Times Forum , Tampa , Florida The Storm opened their season with a lousy performance March 2 against their rivals the Orlando Predators . Kicker Bill Gramatica missed four extra point attempts while Predators player DeAndrew Rubin scored on two long plays to give Orlando a 14 - 0 lead that would hold up for the entire game as they won going away 52 - 27 . Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 15 , 619 Week 2 : at Dallas Desperados . " at the American Airlines Center , Dallas , Texas In their opening road game , they again lost soundly . Despite being tied as late as the third quarter , Will Pettis , on two long plays ( 56 and 23 yards , respectively ) gave Dallas a lead they would not lose . They went on to dominate the fourth quarter as well to win 59 - 40 and pick up their second victory while Tampa Bay went home to play Georgia still looking for their second victory . Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 13 , 805 Recap : DAL 59 TAM 40 Week 3 : vs Georgia Force . " at the St . Pete Times Forum , Tampa , Florida Still looking for their first win in week 3 vs . divisional rival the Georgia Force , the Storm would keep a close game well into the 2nd half of the game . Both Dan Burnett and Seth Marler missed on two extra point attempts . For the Force , however , they would prevail on the strength of a 21 - point fourth quarter to finish the Storm and win 61 - 47 , which left the Storm again without their first victory . Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 13 , 664 Recap : GEO 61 TAM 47 Week 4 : vs New York Dragons . " at the St . Pete Times Forum , Tampa , Florida Tampa Bay finally looked like they would pick up their first victory of the season as they seemingly always answered New York ' s touchdowns into the early part of the 4th quarter . But , despite a 52 - 38 lead , they lost 59 - 52 when they allowed a touchdown with 31 seconds left to give New York their first lead and only lead of the game . This left the Storm still looking for their first win of 2007 . Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 13 , 134 Recap : NYD 59 TAM 52 Week 5 : at San Jose SaberCats . " at the HP Pavilion , San Jose , California Heading out west , still winless , the Storm took on the 1 - 2 San Jose SaberCats . And again , the Storm would come up on the losing end as they lost soundly 69 - 49 to San Jose . San Jose scored two touchdowns in the first 2 : 36 of the game which gave them a quick 14 - 0 lead that they would not relinquish , as the Storm headed home 0 - 5 and their playoff hopes seemingly dashed . In this game , Stoney Case replaced John Kaleo as starting quarterback . Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 13 , 916 Recap : SJ 69 TAM 49 Week 6 : vs New Orleans VooDoo . " at the St . Pete Times Forum , Tampa , Florida Heading home , the Storm finally won their first game of the season in convincing fashion , with a 66 - 43 drumming of the New Orleans VooDoo , playing their first game vs . New Orleans since 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina . Unfortunately for Tampa Bay , Stoney Case , who replaced John Kaleo as quarterback , was injured for the rest of the season , which left Kaleo as starting QB again . Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 16 , 644 Week 7 : at Orlando Predators . " at Hummer Field at Amway Arena , Orlando , Florida Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 15 , 303 Week 9 : vs Columbus Destroyers . " at the St . Pete Times Forum , Tampa , Florida Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 15 , 303 Week 10 : at Austin Wranglers . " at the Frank Erwin Center , Austin , Texas Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 13 , 110 Week 11 : at Los Angeles Avengers . " at the Staples Center , Los Angeles , California Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 12 , 439 Week 12 : vs Arizona Rattlers . " at the St . Pete Times Forum , Tampa , Florida Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 16 , 044 Week 13 : at Georgia Force . " at Philips Arena , Atlanta , Georgia Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 10 , 749 Week 14 : at New Orleans VooDoo . " at New Orleans Arena , New Orleans , Louisiana Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 16 , 821 Week 15 : vs Philadelphia Soul . " at the St . Pete Times Forum , Tampa , Florida Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 17 , 654 Week 16 : at Grand Rapids Rampage . " at Van Andel Arena , Grand Rapids , Michigan In a sloppy game that saw 11 turnovers , an AFL record . Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 6 , 115 Week 17 : vs Austin Wranglers . " at the St . Pete Times Forum , Tampa , Florida Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 18 , 244 Playoffs . Week 1 : vs ( 6 ) Columbus Destroyers . " at the St . Pete Times Forum , Tampa , Florida The Storm entered the playoffs for the first time since 2005 , and coming off an 8 - 1 stretch that earned them a home - field berth , they faced the team that they won their first game in the stretch against , the Columbus Destroyers . In a game that was back - and - forth scoring , the key play was a missed extra point by Storm kicker Seth Marler with 1 : 06 left in the game . Following a delay - of - game penalty , Marler missed an extra point attempt that , had he made it , would have given the Storm a 56 - 49 lead . After Columbus got the ball on the ensuing kickoff , they drove down to the Storm 1 - yard line with 10 seconds left . Columbus QB Matt Nagy called his own number and sneaked into the Storm endzone with 7 . 9 left in the game , and , after the extra point attempt , the Destroyers had a 56 - 55 lead and looked to pull off the upset . With 3 seconds left and at their own 10 - yard line , Marler tried to make amends by attempting a field goal that , if good , would give the Storm a 58 - 56 win and a game against division rival Georgia . Marler ' s kick looked good to begin with , but curved off to the left and missed , giving Columbus the upset win and abruptly ending the Storm ' s season . Scoring Summary : 1st Quarter : 2nd Quarter : 3rd Quarter : 4th Quarter : Attendance : 10 , 221