By Gage Peterson
OMAHA, Neb. – The Omaha Beef are no strangers to championship success.
After winning back-to-back titles in 2023 and 2024, the team returned to the championship game in 2025 with hopes of a three-peat. But their title run fell short.
Omaha Beef players warm up at training camp in Council Bluffs, IA.
Now, as a new season approaches, the mission is clear, to bring another trophy back to Omaha.
The Beef have built a culture centered around competing for championships, and Head Coach Brandon Negron says that standard hasn’t changed.
“You know this is a team, a franchise, a city that’s used to not only competing for championships but winning them,” Coach Negron said. “I made a commitment to the city when I took over the team last April that we’d win one. So that’s what our focus is.”
At training camp, players and coaches are already hard at work preparing for the season ahead. After last year’s loss, the emphasis is on building, improving, and returning stronger.
While the team prepares on the field, the support off it remains just as steady.
Fans of the Omaha Beef have stood by the organization through championships and heartbreak alike including Hall of Fame fan Pat Kenison and her friend Peggy Frederick, who were in attendance for the team’s back-to-back title runs.
“It was so awesome.” Frederick said. “We’d been playing for how many years and hadn’t won a championship. That was just so much fun.”
Omaha Beef players practice at training camp in Council Bluffs, IA
“The one we won in 2024, when we had Sioux City here, it came down to our kicker who made a two-point kick and won the game by one point.” Kenison said. “It was amazing, it was so fun.”
As the new season approaches, expectations from coaches, players and fans remain the same, compete at the highest level and bring another championship trophy home to Omaha.
The Omaha Beef begin their quest for another title this Saturday, March 7, in a preseason matchup against the Saint Joe Bucks.
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