Indoor Professional Football League

Indoor Professional Football League

The Indoor Professional Football League (IPFL) was the new incarnation of the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL), which started in 1998. Two of its teams (the Madison Mad Dogs and the Green Bay Bombers) left the league and their owner, Kerry Ecklund, founded the Indoor Football League in 1999. The IPFL led a troubled three year existence, and died after its 2001 season, with its most successful teams joining up with the National Indoor Football League.

The IPFL was unique among indoor football leagues in that it sanctioned the use of a white football, manufactured by Rawlings, which was easier to see in the artificial lighting conditions.

Ironically, the league's slogan was "Great Football, No Gimmicks.", but most fans saw the white football as precisely that, a "gimmick".

In 1999, IPFL was headed by a new commissioner, Mike Storen, and the league offices were moved to Atlanta.

IPFL 1999 teams

*Hawaii Hammerheads - based in Honululu
*Idaho Stallions - based in Boise/Nampa
*Louisiana Bayou Beast - based in Baton Rouge
*Mississippi Fire Dogs - based in Biloxi
*Rocky Mountain Thunder - based in Colorado Springs
*Texas Terminators - based in Austin

Announced for the 1999 season, but never joined: Tucson Mirage & Syracuse Blitz

IPFL 2000 teams

*Idaho Stallions
*Louisiana Rangers - Louisiana Bayou Beast relocated to Alexandria, Louisiana
*Mississippi Fire Dogs
*Mobile Seagulls
*Omaha Beef
*Portland Prowlers
*Shreveport-Bossier Bombers

IPFL 2001 teams

*Boise Stallions
*Omaha Beef
*Portland Prowlers
*St. Louis Renegades
*Trenton Lightning
*Tennessee ThunderCats

Announced for the 2002 season, but never joined: Fort Wayne Safari


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