Clayton Banner has held many hats in his football career. The Winston
Salem, NC native attended college with World Sports Scouting President &
CEO Mark Grocholski and former NFL Europe head coach (Rhine Fire) and
NFL assistant Jim Tomsula, along with Colorado Crush's (AFL) coach
Netto Purnsley at Catawba College.
From the college gridiron Banner began his coaching career at Mars Hill
College the first of several stops in college football that include: Guilford
College, North Carolina A&T University, West Virginia Tech University,
Concord University and Methodist University.
He began his professional football work in 1993 with the Charlotte Rage
of the AFL. He learned the professional football ropes from several of
football's most creative minds such as the NFL Titans Jim Washburn,
Mississippi State's Charles Harbison, and Offensive Master mind Galen
Hall and The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Roman Gabriel and Joe
Delamiellerue.
Banner then began working in the scouting and player personnel department with the Sacramento Gold Miners of
the CFL. He scouted the East coast for Rick Muller (NFL GM). Banner worked with the Late Glenn Cumbee of
Houston/Tennessee Titans (NFL) and present Titans Scouting Coordinator Blake Beddingfield with Dr. Milt Von
Mann’s Free Agent Camp.
Banner returned to Arena Football working for Mike Hohensee (Chicago Rush), Mike Dailey (Colorado Crush) and
Ed Hodgkiss (LA Avengers). Banner has held many different positions in Arena and Professional Indoor Football:
League Commissioner, General Manager, Head Coach, Director of Player Personnel, Scout and Consultant.
Banner has not only taken part in Indoor/Arena Football, he has worked for some of the most prolific football teams
of the Canadian Football League. He has worn the double EE’S of the Edmonton Eskimos, the double blue of the
Toronto Argonauts and the Black and Gold of the Hamilton Tiger Cats. Banner rounded his football resume
working for the Marburg Mercenaries and participating in Euro Bowl and German Bowl.
Banner has built and network of football connections that run from New York to Los Angeles, from Houston to
Toronto, and Berlin to Moscow.
Clayton Banner is married to Tanya Banner and they have a daughter Ava Victoria.
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