Post by 50yardfan on Feb 28, 2011 21:47:27 GMT -5
by Dan Krieger - FOOTBALL
Stars Football League: The new Detroit-based SFL is a proposed springtime professional league that plans to start play in 2011. The league currently has six teams listed for its inaugural season, but is also working to establish a West Coast team and a Las Vegas-based team for 2011.
Canadian Football League: The CFL plans to add a new Ottawa franchise to its East Division in 2013 and move the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to the West Division. The addition of Ottawa will create an uneven number of teams with a four-team East Division and a five-team West Division, so one team will have a bye each week. The league has been considering a tenth team based in Atlantic Canada with Moncton (New Brunswick) and Halifax (Nova Scotia) as leading candidates. As part of an event called "Touchdown Atlantic", the CFL held a 2010 regular-season game in Moncton and will return to Moncton with a regular-season game in 2011. The challenges for a potential tenth franchise will be developing a suitable ownership group and a stadium that meets league requirements.
Continental Indoor Football League: The CIFL has started its 2011 season with six franchises. The Chicago Knights (last season's Chicago Cardinals), Cincinnati Commandos, and Dayton Silverbacks (last season's Miami Valley Silverbacks) return from last season, while the league added the new Marion (OH) Blue Racers, Port Huron (MI) Predators, and the Indianapolis Enforcers travel team for 2011. Of the six teams from last season, the Fort Wayne FireHawks, Marion Mayhem, and Wisconsin Wolfpack did not return. The CIFL is entering its sixth season of play.
Independent Indoor Football Alliance: The semi-pro IIFA has made some changes to its team lineup for 2011 and is now up to eight teams. The Carrollton-based Dallas Americans team, which was a non-league team that planned to play one road game against each of the other seven IIFA teams, is now a full member of the league and will play at least three home games in 2011. The Longview-based East Texas Drillers team has been sold and renamed the East Texas Wranglers. Some of the IIFA teams will play games against the Reno Barons and San Jose Wolves of the dormant American Indoor Football Association - West in 2011.
Stars Football League: The new Detroit-based SFL is a proposed springtime professional league that plans to start play in 2011. The league currently has six teams listed for its inaugural season, but is also working to establish a West Coast team and a Las Vegas-based team for 2011.
Canadian Football League: The CFL plans to add a new Ottawa franchise to its East Division in 2013 and move the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to the West Division. The addition of Ottawa will create an uneven number of teams with a four-team East Division and a five-team West Division, so one team will have a bye each week. The league has been considering a tenth team based in Atlantic Canada with Moncton (New Brunswick) and Halifax (Nova Scotia) as leading candidates. As part of an event called "Touchdown Atlantic", the CFL held a 2010 regular-season game in Moncton and will return to Moncton with a regular-season game in 2011. The challenges for a potential tenth franchise will be developing a suitable ownership group and a stadium that meets league requirements.
Continental Indoor Football League: The CIFL has started its 2011 season with six franchises. The Chicago Knights (last season's Chicago Cardinals), Cincinnati Commandos, and Dayton Silverbacks (last season's Miami Valley Silverbacks) return from last season, while the league added the new Marion (OH) Blue Racers, Port Huron (MI) Predators, and the Indianapolis Enforcers travel team for 2011. Of the six teams from last season, the Fort Wayne FireHawks, Marion Mayhem, and Wisconsin Wolfpack did not return. The CIFL is entering its sixth season of play.
Independent Indoor Football Alliance: The semi-pro IIFA has made some changes to its team lineup for 2011 and is now up to eight teams. The Carrollton-based Dallas Americans team, which was a non-league team that planned to play one road game against each of the other seven IIFA teams, is now a full member of the league and will play at least three home games in 2011. The Longview-based East Texas Drillers team has been sold and renamed the East Texas Wranglers. Some of the IIFA teams will play games against the Reno Barons and San Jose Wolves of the dormant American Indoor Football Association - West in 2011.