2010 American Indoor Football Association season

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2010 American Indoor Football Association season
League American Indoor Football Association
Sport Indoor football
AIFA Championship Bowl IV
Champions Baltimore Mariners
  Runners-upWyoming Cavalry
AIFA seasons
  2009
2011  

The 2010 American Indoor Football Association season is the league's sixth overall season, and the last before its split and cessation of operations. The regular season began on Saturday, March 6 and ended on Sunday, July 4. The league champion was decided on Sunday, July 25 in the AIFA Championship Bowl IV, where the Baltimore Mariners completed a perfect season by beating the Wyoming Cavalry. Prior to the regular season, the league held its annual exhibition game in Richmond, Virginia called the AIFA Kickoff Classic.

Baltimore Mariners Defunct indoor American football team

The Baltimore Mariners were an indoor football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. The team was a member of American Indoor Football. The team was founded when the American Indoor Football Association expelled the Baltimore Blackbirds for negotiating with another league. The AIFA maintained the lease rights to 1st Mariner Arena, so the Mariners were the league's replacement. On September 3, 2010, team owner Dwayne Wells was arrested on charges of wire fraud from an engineering firm he partially owned, allegedly using embezzled money from the firm to buy stakes in the Mariners franchise. Wells forfeited his ownership of the team, causing the Mariners to fold after the 2010 season. The Southern Indoor Football League, as successor to the eastern half of the AIFA, held the lease on the arena, now called Baltimore Arena, until it folded in 2011. The Mariners, after three seasons out of play, returned for one final season in 2014, winning the league championship before folding again. The Mariners have since been succeeded by the Baltimore Brigade of the Arena Football League in 2017.

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.

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Contents

AIFA Kickoff Classic

AIFA Kickoff Classic
   
L AIFA All-Stars 46
WRichmond Raiders49
Richmond Coliseum

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Standings

TeamOverallDivision
WinsLossesPercentageWinsLossesPercentage
Eastern Division
Baltimore Mariners 1401.0001401.000
Harrisburg Stampede 1130.7861130.786
Erie Storm 860.571860.571
Reading Express 860.571860.571
Richmond Raiders 680.429680.429
Fayetteville Guard 2120.1432120.143
New Jersey Revolution 0140.0000140.000
Western Division
Wyoming Cavalry 1310.9891310.989
San Jose Wolves 950.643950.643
Wenatchee Valley Venom 860.571860.571
Yakima Valley Warriors 770.500770.500
Arctic Predators 4100.2864100.286
Ogden Knights 1130.0711130.071

Playoffs

 Wild Card  Semifinals  AIFA Championship Bowl IV
              
    2Harrisburg15 
 3Erie48  1Baltimore63  
 2Harrisburg52    W1Wyoming42
   E1Baltimore57
    2San Jose37  
    1Wyoming57 

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References

  1. "2010 AIFA KICKOFF CLASSIC". American Indoor Football Association. Retrieved 2011-06-15.