The North American Indoor Football League (NAIFL) was a proposed indoor football

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that announced plans in 2004 to begin play in fourteen

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cities beginning in February 2005. The game played was to be a unique indoor version of

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. Teams were to be centrally owned, and former Edmonton Eskimos quarterback

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was to serve as league president. The league never played a single game and its website went offline in early 2006. The 14 teams announced were: East Division West Division

References

External links

NAIFL.ca
archived on August 30, 2005
Discussion thread
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