PIFL 1998
| P | W | L | T | PF | PA | Pct | |
| *Louisiana Bayou Beast | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 565 | 400 | |
| *Madison Mad Dogs | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 450 | 371 | |
| *Green Bay Bombers | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 585 | 458 | |
| *Colorado Wildcats | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 340 | 360 | |
| Honolulu Hurricanes | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 449 | 537 | |
| Utah Catzz | 14 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 343 | 462 |
| Date | Home Team | Away Team | ||
| Playoff | ||||
| 1998 | Madison Mad Dogs | 46 | Green Bay Bombers | 19 |
| 1998 | Louisiana Bayou Beast | 67 | Colorado Wildcats | 51 |
| PIFL Championship | ||||
| 15.08.1998 | Louisiana Bayou Beast | 42 | Madison Mad Dogs | 41 |
PIFL 1999
| P | W | L | T | PF | PA | Pct | |
| *Texas Terminators | 16 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 654 | 466 | |
| *Hawaii Hammerheads | 16 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 585 | 531 | |
| *Mississippi Fire Dogs | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 578 | 505 | |
| Idaho Stallions | 16 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 608 | 679 | |
| Louisiana Bayou Beast | 16 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 486 | 593 | |
| Rocky Mountain Thunder | 16 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 521 | 652 |
| Date | Home Team | Away Team | ||
| Playoff | ||||
| 14.08.1999 | Hawaii Hammerheads | 36 | Mississippi Fire Dogs | 16 |
| PIFL Championship | ||||
| 21.08.1999 | Texas Terminators | 13 | Hawaii Hammerheads | 28 |
PIFL 2000
| P | W | L | T | PF | PA | Pct | |
| *Portland Prowlers | 16 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 656 | 528 | |
| *Omaha Beef | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 627 | 603 | |
| *Mississippi Fire Dogs | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 669 | 570 | |
| Mobile Seagulls | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 593 | 531 | |
| Louisiana Rangers | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 654 | 609 | |
| Idaho Stallions | 16 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 474 | 684 | |
| Shreveport-Bossier Bombers | 16 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 450 | 598 |
| Date | Home Team | Away Team | ||
| Playoff | ||||
| 19.08.2000 | Omaha Beef | 40 | Mississippi | 43 |
| PIFL Championship | ||||
| 26.08.2000 | Portland Prowlers | 48 | Mississippi | 53 |
PIFL 2001
| P | W | L | T | PF | PA | Pct | |
| Omaha Beef | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 453 | 307 | |
| Tennessee Thundercats | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 374 | 327 | |
| Boise Stallions | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 189 | 280 | |
| St. Louis Renegades | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 244 | 285 | |
| Trenton Lightning | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 141 | 226 |
| Date | Home Team | Away Team | ||
| PIFL Championship | ||||
| 01.09.2001 | Omaha | Tennessee |
About the PIFL / IPFL
The Professional Indoor Football League was the first to challenge the legal status of the Arena Football League as the copyright owner to the Arena Football Rules & Name.
The Arena Football League had copyrighted the name Arena Football and Indoor Football, and also 8-v-8 Indoor or Arena Football Rules in 1987. However, in 1997 the PIFL set up in opposition to it, playing mainly in smaller markets of 12,000 or less. THE AFL took it gto court, and lost, the Judge ruling only the Rebound Nets either side of the goalposts were AFL copyrighted, the rest was Football, which had already existed, in some form or another, whether Indoor, or 8v8. [Reference: 5-6]
The League was based in smaller cities and Arenas, throughout the United States, but primarily in the West and South, with teams also in the Midwest and Northeast.
About Arena / Indoor Football
Indoor (also known as Arena) Football plays an 8 v 8 version of American Football on a converted Ice Hockey Rink 50-yards long with 2 10 -yard endzones. Teams have 5 downs (attempts) to score or the ball is turned over – 3 of which must be passing plays. It is therefore a higher scoring game than standard 11 v 11 American Football. The main difference between Arena Football and Indoor Football is that there is no rebound net either side of the goalposts in Indoor Football. Arena Football rules allow the ball stay in play when it comas back off the rebound nets.
References
[1] Professional Indoor Football League | Wayback Machine (2000)1998 PIFL Standings and Results [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20001025235714/http://indoorfootball.com/1998/standing.html [Accessed 12 February 2020]
[2] Indoor Professional Football League | Wayback Machine (2000) 1999 IPFL Standings and Results [Internet] Available from:https://web.archive.org/web/20001029125539/http://indoorfootball.com/1999/standings.html [Accessed 12 February 2020]
[3] Indoor Professional Football League | Wayback Machine (2000) 2000 IPFL Standings and Results [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20001026132102/http://www.indoorfootball.com/standings.html [Accessed 12 February 2020]
[4] Football.com | Wayback Machine (2001) 2001 IPFL Standings [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20010821064201/http://www.football.com/arena/ipfl/standings.shtml [Accessed 20 March 2018]
[5] Football.com | Wayback Machine (2001) 2001 IPFL Schedule [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20010821073409/http://www.football.com/arena/ipfl/schedule.shtml[Accessed 20 March 2018]
[6] Professional Indoor Football League | Wayback Machine (2000)News [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/19990218095034/http://www.indoorfootball.com/[Accessed 12 February 2020]
Images
[8] Professional Indoor Football League | Wayback Machine (2000) IPFL Logo[Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20000510090738im_/http://www.indoorfootball.com/ipfllogo4.gif[Accessed 12 February 2020]
Bibliography
[7] Arena Football League (2016) “2016 Record and Fact Book”.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Todd Zboyan & Tim Leadingham.
About this document
Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the
Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive
Last Updated: 12 February 2020
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