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How the team was built
On November 12th 2004, Jeremy Lambie, Lance Zodrow and Scott Hall met at The Charcoal Grill in West
Bend, Wisconsin to discuss the possibility of starting a Semi-Professional football club to compete in the Wisconsin State
Football League. Before concluding this meeting, it was decided that the trio would in fact enter the 2005 WSFL season with
the newly created West Bend Mustangs. During the next few months the organizers and coaching staff decided to change
the team nickname to the Junkyard Dogs, a name linked to the past football heritage of West Bend West. The organizers
also decided that if they could put athletes together from both West Bend East and West they would then have an excellent
chance to succeed in semi-pro football. In the Dog's first season (2005), it's founders were proven correct. After a 3-3 start
the team won it's final seven games by a whopping 271-74 margin. In the championship game against the two-time defending
WSFL Champion Oostburg Rebels, the Dog's were down 12-6 with a little over a minute left in the game and were 45 yards away
in a driving rain storm. The team proceeded to drive the distance to tie the score on a Mark Hauer TD catch with eight
seconds remaining. Pat Klug followed up with a 2 point conversion run to seal the Championship in the Dog's first season of
competition. West Bend finished 9-1 in the 2006 regular season to capture the North Division regular season championship.
The Dogs then dropped their playoff game to the Oostburg Rebels 20-0.
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