The Minnesota Monsters were an indoor football team based in

Falcon Heights, Minnesota Falcon Heights is a suburb of Saint Paul and a city in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 5,321 at the 2010 census. It became a village in 1949 and a city in 1973. Falcon Heights is the home of the University of Minn ...

. The Monsters were charter members of the original

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(PIFL) in 1998. The Monsters franchise was owned by Robert and Joann Edwards. The team office was based in Minneapolis-St. Paul,

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, and played their games at

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on the

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. The team colors were: Blue, Black, and White/Gold. The Monsters were coached by Ron Simmons for the few PIFL games they did participate in. The Monsters played two preseason PIFL games in '98. Both were victories at home: * March 7 -

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32 at Minnesota Monsters 35 * March 28 -

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29 at Minnesota Monsters 33 Minnesota's first three PIFL regular season games were losses. Then, the Monsters forfeited a home game scheduled against the

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on May 16, 1998. The following weekend, on May 22, 1998, a road trip game at the

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was on the schedule. Due to a shipping error, the Monsters had to play the first half of the game wearing the Hurricanes' road uniforms. Minnesota actually got their lone regular season victory in that game. The victory was taken away by the league president for unpaid bills. The team was officially folded on May 28, 1998. After forfeiting another home game the following weekend against the

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, The Monsters lost to Madison 20-36. The league ruled this game as an "exhibition game" for the standing purposes. From that point on, all remaining Minnesota Monsters games were ruled to be forfeits.

Minnesota Monsters 1998 schedule

*April 11 - Minnesota Monsters 30, at

32 *May 2 - Minnesota Monsters 40, at

55 *May 9 - Minnesota Monsters 32, at Texas Bullets 34 (OT) *May 16 -

at Minnesota Monsters - Minnesota forfeits *May 22 - Minnesota Monsters 42‡, at

20 - Minnesota forfeits *May 30 -

at Minnesota Monsters - Minnesota forfeits *June 6 - Minnesota Monsters 20†, at

36 *June 13 -

at Minnesota Monsters - Minnesota forfeits *June 27 - Minnesota Monsters at

- Minnesota forfeits *July 4 - Minnesota Monsters at

Louisiana Bayou Beast The Louisiana Bayou Beast were a team in the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL) in 1998, in the Indoor Professional Football League (IPFL) in 1999, and reincarnated in 2001 in the National Indoor Football League (NIFL). The Bayou Beast fran ...

- Minnesota forfeits *July 11 -

at Minnesota Monsters - Minnesota forfeits *July 19 -

at Minnesota Monsters - Minnesota forfeits *July 26 - Texas Bullets at Minnesota Monsters - both teams forfeit *July 31 -

at Minnesota Monsters - Minnesota forfeits † Exhibition Game ‡ victory was taken away by the league president for unpaid bills

References

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