Professional Indoor Football League
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The Professional Indoor Football League was the first league to successfully play indoor football as a paid pro-league sport other than the Arena Football League. Since the AFL had a patent given in 1990 on the gameplay of "Arena Football" (mainly the endzone nets), the PIFL played with mostly the same rules, but without the endzone nets.
The PIFL lasted one season (1998) with that name. In 1999, it would essentially "split" into two leagues. Kerry Ecklund, owner of the Green Bay and Madison teams, and an operator of a trucking company, would take his two teams and form the Indoor Football League. The remaining teams of the PIFL renamed the league to the Indoor Professional Football League.
PIFL Teams: