2014 American Indoor Football season

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2014 American Indoor Football season
League American Indoor Football
Sport Indoor football
Season MVP Richard Johnson (BAL)
Julius Gregory (YORK)
Playoffs
#1 Seed champions Cape Fear Heroes
  #1 Seed runners-upBye
Playoff champions Baltimore Mariners
  Playoff runners-up Rochester Raiders
2014 AIF Championship Game
Champions Baltimore Mariners
  Runners-up Cape Fear Heroes
AIF seasons

The 2014 American Indoor Football season was the ninth season of American Indoor Football (AIF). The Baltimore Mariners defeated the Cape Fear Heroes 45-44 to claim their second ever AIF title. [1]

American Indoor Football former professional indoor football league

American Indoor Football (AIF) was a professional indoor football league, one of the several regional professional indoor football leagues in North America.

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.

Cape Fear Heroes

The Cape Fear Heroes are a professional indoor football team based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and a member of the American Arena League (AAL). The Heroes are owned by Barbara Spigner.

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Standings

TeamWinsLossesPercentage
Cape Fear Heroes 51.833
Baltimore Mariners 41.800
Rochester Raiders 43.571
Cleveland Patriots 22.500
York Capitals 15.167
Washington Eagles01.000
Atlanta Sharks 03.000


Playoffs

 Semifinal  Final
         
   1 Cape Fear44
 2Baltimore46  2Baltimore45
  3 Rochester40 

Awards

Individual season awards

AwardWinnerPositionTeam
Co-Most Valuable Player Julius Gregory Wide ReceiverYork Capitals
Co-Most Valuable PlayerRichard JohnsonDefensive BackBaltimore Mariners
Coach of the YearRon MeehamHead CoachBaltimore Mariners
General Manager of the YearScott GarrityGeneral ManagerBaltimore Mariners

1st Team All-AIF

Offense
QuarterbackSteve Adams, Cape Fear
Running backMatt Winger, Baltimore
Wide receiver Julius Gregory, York
Kevin Concepcion, Rochester
Abe Taylor, Cleveland
Offensive lineman Scott Burley, Baltimore
Allen Joyner, Rochester
Joshua Pugh, Cape Fear
Defense
Defensive line Quane Madison, Baltimore
Chad Nkang, Baltimore
Cory Groover, Cape Fear
Linebacker Chindy Agugua, York
Darius Leak, Baltimore
Defensive Back Richard Johnson, Baltimore
Richard Kimbrew, Rochester
Josh Peacock, Cleveland
Special teams
Kicker J. R. Cipra, Baltimore

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References

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