Toronto Triumph

Template:LFL team The Toronto Triumph is an expansion team in the Lingerie Football League which began play in the 2011-12 season. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the Triumph plays their home games at Ricoh Coliseum.

Donna Paul is the team's starting quarterback. and an open tryout was held October 20, 2011.

The Triumph played the 2011 season in the U.S. Lingerie Football League as a preview for the future Canadian LFL league to begin play in 2012, which they will join then along with the BC Angels, Saskatoon Sirens and Regina Rage.

2011

Open try-outs were held at Polson Pier on April 30, 2011. Among those attending was Krista Ford, the 20-year-old daughter of Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford and niece of Toronto mayor Rob Ford; she played touch football in high school. Ford was eventually accepted onto the team, becoming the team's captain.

The inaugural game resulted in a 48-14 loss, with around 20% attendance. The half-time show was a contest to tackle one of the players.

After a loss in the first game, the Triumph "released" four players. Shortly after, sixteen of the twenty players on the team including Captain and star player Krista Ford, quit the team. They criticized the helmets and shoulder pads provided as unsafe, and suggested that the coaching was improper. Their quitting followed the team "releasing" four of the unpaid players. Management suggested that "[m]ost of these women have never touched a football prior. Now they're critiquing on who's qualified to coach football. It's almost laughable." Commissioner Mitchell Mortaza accused the players of having a "lack of heart." Ford had previously publicly commented on the growing expenses not covered by the team. The league made no mention of the mass exodus in its official preview of the following week's game, which the Triumph played with ten replacement players in addition to the few remaining players who did not quit.

The replacement players went onto engage in a bench-clearing brawl in a 74–0 shutout loss to the Philadelphia Passion. The team finished in last place in the league for the 2011 season, after which Mortaza indeed fired the Triumph coaching staff, citing the coach's inability to control the players.

Season schedule

  Win   Loss   Tie

Week	Date	Opponent	Location	Final Score	Attendance	Record
	September 17	Tampa Breeze	Ricoh Coliseum	48-14	1800 (20% capacity)	0-1
	October 28	Baltimore Charm	Ricoh Coliseum	42-6		0-2
	December 9	Philadelphia Passion	@ Sun National Bank Center	0-74		0-3
	January 13	Orlando Fantasy	@ Citrus Bowl	18-49		0-4

2012

The Triumph is one of four teams to be included in the Lingerie Football League's new Canadian division, LFL Canada. However, due to travel concerns (all three other LFL teams are based in Western Canada), the Triumph will be relegated to traveling team status and will only play two away games in 2012.