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[quote=""preeths""]Or at least on hiatus. My take is that AIF is reviewing the former X-League teams on a case-by-case basis, FWIW.[/quote] Translation - "The AIF thoroughly vetted team management to determine if anyone in the management team ever upsized their combo at McDonald's or any like establ...

[quote=""nksports""]I'm a stickler about teams that run up the score. The problem here is, since indoor teams only carry game-day rosters of 20 to 24, depending on the league, it's not like you have a bunch of back-ups you can start putting in. Maybe they need a mercy rule or a running clock rule fo...

[quote=""DFWCC""]There are two prime teams in the CIFL, Saginaw and Erie. That includes good reliable mgt and a strong fan base along with marketing and quality advertisers. Ex, Erie's home office is open 52 weeks a yr. People see, people believe. Viable teams good for the CIFL are Dayton, Marion, N...

[quote=""DFWCC""]Erie did it again. Erie holds the all time highest scoring professional Indoor Football league record for all leagues beating some hapless team 138-0 Today Erie played a hodgepodge team of pretenders supposedly masquerading as Port Huron, Mi. A Terry Foster team (need I say more). :...

[quote=""DFWCC""]40 yd field of play? And I thought the PIFL didn't take lessons from the Kane County Dawgs. Ref: Turf Gate 1, CIFL's Kane County"s short turf last yr Turf Gate 2, CIFL's Detroit fiasco only 25 yds turf Is anybody serious in Indoor Football?[/quote] I don't see any turf issues there,...

[quote=""VinnyTheViper""]REALLY? The two PIFL teams with the most distance between them is Lehigh Valley and Albany, according to Rand McNally, the distance between those two markets is 980 miles. The distance between the IFL's Tri-Cities and Texas markets is 1981 miles and Tri-Cities and Chicago is...

[quote=""VinnyTheViper""]To answer the question as it was asked, I think the average fan by and large, has no clue what league their local team plays in, they are more concerned about whether their local is playing competitive football, are they worth the price of admission? As to the point about le...

[quote=""Alhammer""]I wonder if the average fan thinks about the league their team is in. Does it mean anything to be in a certain league. It's funny, but so many of the indoor leagues do not seem to get how damaging it is to let teams in that clearly have no chance to sustain themselves. Its almost...

[quote=""preeths""]The inability to turn a profit does not make an organization a nonprofit.[/quote] A very key point. Technically, a charity is a "not-for-profit," in the realm that profit isn't really the goal. I assume these indoor teams usually think they're trying to make a profit. Of course, w...

My best guess is that Dan Ryan was compiling NIFL stats that year.