 The Oorang Indians, a traveling NFL team based in nearby LaRue, played their only true "home" game in Marion in 1923.It is the former home of the Marion Blue Racers, an indoor football team in X-League Indoor Football; the Marion Mayhem, also an indoor football team in the CIFL; and a professional ice hockey team, the Marion Barons, which played in the International Hockey League during the 1953–54 season.Marion has been home to numerous individual and team high school state championships.