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The Intense Football League (IFL) was a professional indoor football minor league that began operations in 2004. Its focus was in Texas , but it was notable for being the first professional football league to place a franchise in Alaska .
With the closure of the original Arena Football League in 2019, the IFL is the oldest active professional indoor football league in North America, and can trace its history to 2003 (as the Intense Football League). IFL players earn US$250–500 (before taxes) per game played, [2] [3] with a $25 bonus given to players on the winning team each ...
The IFL National Championship (formerly the United Bowl) is the Indoor Football League's championship game. It has been played every year since 2009, except for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The current champions are the Arizona Rattlers , who won their seventh indoor National Championship, defeating the Massachusetts Pirates .
The Lubbock Gunslingers were a professional indoor football team. They played their home games in Lubbock, Texas, at Lubbock Municipal Coliseum.. The Gunslingers played in 2004 as a charter member of the Intense Football League when they were known as the Lubbock Lone Stars, receiving some criticism locally as it was felt that the phrase Lone Star should not be pluralized.
The team was a member of the Pacific Division of the Intense Conference in the Indoor Football League (IFL). The Grizzlies began play in 2008 as a member of the Intense Football League and joined the IFL in 2008 as part of the Intense Football League and United Indoor Football (UIF) merger.
The 2009 Indoor Football League season was the inaugural season of the Indoor Football League, a league formed as a merger between the Intense Football League and United Indoor Football. The regular season began on Friday, March 13 and ended on Saturday, July 11. [1]
IFL may refer to: American football. Intense Football League, (2004–2008) in the United States, merged into the Indoor Football League; Indoor Football League, (2008–present) in the United States; Intercontinental Football League, a European league proposed by the NFL in the 1970s; Israel Football League, (2007–present) in Israel
For the 2006 season, the IFL was resurrected, and the Odessa Roughnecks returned to their original league. In 2008 the Intense Football League merged again, this time with the UIF to create the Indoor Football League. The team played its home games at the Ector County Coliseum in Odessa. The team was sold by its original owner (Tommy Benizio ...