2001 National Indoor Football League season

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2001 NIFL season
League National Indoor Football League
Sport indoor American football
Regular season
Season champions Mississippi Fire Dogs
Playoffs
Atlantic champions Mississippi Fire Dogs
  Atlantic runners-up Ohio Valley Greyhounds
Pacific champions Wyoming Cavalry
  Pacific runners-up Sioux Falls Storm
Indoor Bowl I
Champions Mississippi Fire Dogs
  Runners-up Wyoming Cavalry
NIFL seasons

The 2001 National Indoor Football League season was the first season of the National Indoor Football League (NIFL). The league champions were the Mississippi Fire Dogs, who defeated the Wyoming Cavalry in Indoor Bowl I.

National Indoor Football League

The National Indoor Football League (NIFL) was a professional indoor football league in the United States. For their first six years, the league had teams in markets not covered by either the Arena Football League or its developmental league, AF2, however, that changed briefly with their expansion into AFL markets such as Atlanta, Denver, and Los Angeles, and AF2 markets such as Fort Myers and Houston. The league folded in 2008.

Mississippi Fire Dogs

The Mississippi Fire Dogs were a professional indoor American football team based in Biloxi, Mississippi. They played their home games at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum. They were a charter member of the Indoor Professional Football League. They played from in the 1999-2000 IPFL seasons before joining the National Indoor Football League in 2001. Their final season was in 2002.

Wyoming Cavalry

The Wyoming Cavalry were an American professional indoor football team based in Casper, Wyoming. They were most recently members of the Intense Conference in the Indoor Football League (IFL). The Cavalry began play in 2000 as an expansion member of the original Indoor Football League as the Casper Cavalry. The Cavalry became a charter member of the National Indoor Football League (NIFL) in 2001 following the original IFL's purchase by the Arena Football League's Orlando Predators. The move in 2001 also brought a franchise name change to the current Wyoming Cavalry. The team then joined the American Indoor Football Association (AIFA) in 2008 after the NIFL's demise. With the AIFA's presence in the Western United States dwindling, the Cavalry joined the IFL in 2011. In September, 2014, majority owner Mitch Zimmerman announced that the team would cease operations.

Contents

Standings

Team Overall Conference
WinsLossesPercentageWinsLossesPercentage
Eastern Division
Ohio Valley Greyhounds 1240.750820.800
Johnstown J Dogs 1050.667630.667
River Cities LocoMotives 1130.071090.000
Southern Division
Mississippi Fire Dogs 1610.941910.900
Lake Charles Land Sharks 1140.733730.700
Tupelo FireAnts 770.500750.583
Mobile Seagulls 580.385460.400
Louisiana Rangers 590.357470.364
Louisiana Bayou Beast 1 13 0.071 1 10 0.091
Central Division
Rapid City Red Dogs 1320.8671010.909
Wyoming Cavalry 1070.588640.600
Sioux Falls Storm 880.500560.455
Billings Outlaws 770.500560.455
Tri-City Diesel 6 8 0.429 3 8 0.273
Sioux City Bandits 4 10 0.286 4 8 0.333
Western Division
Utah Rattlers 870.533710.875
Yakima Shockwave 680.429350.375
Southern Oregon Heat 1120.533060.000

Playoffs

Conference Semifinals Conference Championships Indoor Bowl I
         
4Sioux Falls40
1 Rapid City 25
4 Sioux Falls 31
2Wyoming37
3 Utah 20
2Wyoming48
W2 Wyoming 21
E1Mississippi55
3 Lake Charles 9
2Ohio Valley53
2 Ohio Valley 35
1Mississippi40
4 Johnstown 27
1Mississippi42

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