As we move into indoor football league season, we mark the anniversary of the first league games played by the United Indoor Football League on March 19, 2005. The league was to have had 12 teams scattered across the Midwest, however the Dayton, Ohio Warbirds were kicked out of the league just before opening day. The Warbirds then returned to the National Indoor Football League from which nine of the other league clubs had come from.
The league for the most part enjoyed a fairly stable existence in its four year run. A July 2008 merger with the Intense Football League, a Texas based league brought forth the Indoor Football League. The current league with 22 teams has claim to the title of the Worlds largest indoor football league. Several of the UIFL clubs are still in the league. The league did have a close call with the Fairbanks Grizzlies earlier this month when an insurance problem brought an announcement that the club was going to fold. Community support and assistance from the league allowed the club to continue operations.
The answer to yesterdays trivia question is the three charter teams of the National Basketball Development League that moved in the 2005 off season are the Asheville Altitude, the Columbus Riverdragons and the Huntsville Flight. The new cities are Albuquerque, NM; Cedar Park, TX and Tulsa, OK. The Altitude came to rest in Tulsa, as the 66ers. The Riverdragons moved on to Cedar Park as the Austin Toros. The Flight ended up in Albuquerque as the Thunderbirds. The have since moved into suburbs and Rio Rancho.
Todays trivia question is how many teams were going to play the 2010 season of the United National Gridiron League, a league that never show the playing field? The answer in tomorrows daily blog about Drag Racing.
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