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The Orlando Predators are an Arena Football League team based in Orlando, Florida. The Predators were founded in 1991. Annually among the league-leaders in attendance, the Predators have qualified for the playoffs 13 consecutive years and have posted a league-record 13 consecutive winning seasons. As of this writing, they are coached by Jay Gruden, younger brother of prominent National Football League coach Jon Gruden. Jay Gruden was formely an outstanding Arena quarterback, leading Predators rival Tampa Bay to four ArenaBowl championships, and then served two years as offensive coordinator for the Nashville Kats prior to becoming head coach of the Predators. Orlando won the ArenaBowl in 1998 and 2000 under Gruden's coaching. He then attempted a comeback as a player, but subsequently returned to coaching only.
The Predators are undoubtedly one of the premier franchises in the history of Arena Football. They are tied with Tampa Bay for the longest tenure in a market by a team, and unique that in that they are now ( 2004) in their fourteenth season of playing in the same venue, the T D Waterhouse Centre (Orlando Arena), which they share with the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association. They have played in the ArenaBowl a total of five times. The Predators currently compete in the Southern Division of the National Conference.