United Indoor Football

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United Indoor Football
Sport	American football
Founded	2005
No. of teams	11
Country	United States
Current champions	Sioux Falls Storm
Official website	www.unitedindoorfootball.com

United Indoor Football is an indoor American football league that was started in 2005. Ten owners from the National Indoor Football League, including one expansion (the Dayton Warbirds, which never played a game in UIF) and two from arenafootball2 (af2) took their franchises and formed their own league. The league is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Contents 1 2005 Season 1.1 Teams (league or leagues they used to belong to) 1.2 Playoffs 2 2006 Season 2.1 Playoffs 3 2007 Season 3.1 Teams 4 Former Franchises 5 Possible Expansion 6 External links

[edit] 2005 Season

[edit] Teams (league or leagues they used to belong to)

Midwest Division	North Division	South Division
Fort Wayne Freedom (NIFL)	Black Hills Red Dogs (IFL as Machine; NIFL)	Evansville BlueCats (NIFL)
Ohio Valley Greyhounds (IFL as Steel Valley Smash; NIFL)	Omaha Beef (IPFL; NIFL)	Lexington Horsemen (NIFL)
Peoria Rough Riders (af2, IFL as Pirates)	Sioux Falls Storm (IFL as Cobras; NIFL)	Tupelo FireAnts (NIFL)
	Sioux City Bandits (IFL as Attack; NIFL)	Tennessee Valley Raptors (af2 as Vipers)

[edit] Playoffs

The Sioux Falls Storm went against the odds to win the first-ever 2005 UIF United Bowl. Seeded sixth, with a record of 8-8, they had to play the Omaha Beef, Lexington Horsemen, and the Sioux City Bandits, all on their own fields. The Storm played the Horsemen in the NIFL Championship game in 2004.

2005 Season Stats

[edit] 2006 Season

East Division	Central Division	West Division
Evansville BlueCats	Peoria Rough Riders	Omaha Beef
Fort Wayne Freedom	Rock River Raptors[1]	Sioux City Bandits
Lexington Horsemen	Bloomington Extreme[2]	Sioux Falls Storm
Ohio Valley Greyhounds

1. ^ Relocated from Huntsville, Alabama
2. ^ 2006 Expansion Team

[edit] Playoffs

Once again, the Sioux Falls Storm won the United Bowl, only this time they finished at 17-0, a perfect season, with home-field advantage throughout the UIF playoffs, and defeated the Lexington Horsemen.

2006 Season Stats

[edit] 2007 Season

[edit] Teams

East Division	West Division
Bloomington Extreme	Billings Outlaws (formerly of IFL as Thunderbolts, then NIFL)
Evansville BlueCats	Colorado Ice (2007 expansion team)
Lexington Horsemen	Omaha Beef
Ohio Valley Greyhounds	Sioux City Bandits
River City Rage (formerly of IPFL as St. Louis Renegades, then NIFL (first three years as RiverCity Renegades/Show Me Believers)	Sioux Falls Storm
Rock River Raptors

2007 Season Stats

[edit] Former Franchises

• Black Hills Red Dogs, 2005; inactive - ownership still retains UIF franchise rights. Today, they're the National Indoor Football League's Rapid City Flying Aces.
• Dayton Warbirds, 2005; UIF suspended team prior to its first league game, and NIFL accepted franchise for 2005 season.
• Fort Wayne Freedom , 2005-2006; team suspended[1]
• Peoria Rough Riders, 2005-2006; Rivermen owners plan to put an af2 team in Peoria for 2008. [2]
• Tennessee Valley Raptors, 2005; moved to Rockford, Illinois. The arenafootball2 (af2) stepped in to reestablish the Tennessee Valley Vipers for the 2006 season. Today, this franchise is known as the Rock River Raptors.
• Tupelo FireAnts, 2005

[edit] Possible Expansion

• Bismarck, North Dakota
• Fargo, North Dakota
• Grand Forks, North Dakota
• Lincoln, Nebraska
• Kearney, Nebraska
• Milwaukee Bonecrushers (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) [3]
• Winston-Salem, North Carolina

[edit] External links

• United Indoor Football
• UIFans - United Indoor Fans

United Indoor Football (UIF)
Eastern Conference		Western Conference
Bloomington Extreme | Evansville BlueCats | Lexington Horsemen | Ohio Valley Greyhounds | River City Rage | Rock River Raptors		Billings Outlaws | Colorado Ice | Omaha Beef | Sioux City Bandits | Sioux Falls Storm