2004 National Indoor Football League season

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2004 NIFL season
League National Indoor Football League
Sport indoor American football
Regular season
Season champions Ohio Valley Greyhounds
Playoffs
Atlantic champions Lexington Horsemen
  Atlantic runners-up Ohio Valley Greyhounds
Pacific champions Sioux Falls Storm
  Pacific runners-up Billings Outlaws
Indoor Bowl IV
Champions Lexington Horsemen
  Runners-up Sioux Falls Storm
NIFL seasons

The 2004 National Indoor Football League season was the fourth season of the National Indoor Football League (NIFL). The league champions were the Lexington Horsemen, who defeated the Sioux Falls Storm in Indoor Bowl IV.

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.

Sioux Falls Storm

The Sioux Falls Storm are a professional indoor football team based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Storm joined the original Indoor Football League as an expansion team in 1999 as the Sioux Falls Cobras, and first took the field for the 2000 season. They currently participate in another iteration of the Indoor Football League; prior to that, the Storm were in United Indoor Football (UIF), where they won all four of the league's championship games. In the newer IFL, the Storm have won six of the nine championships in the league.

The Indoor Bowl was the main championship game of the National Indoor Football League (NIFL). In 2001, it was played between the top two teams who survived the eight-team playoff format. Since 2002, it has been played between the Atlantic Conference champion and the Pacific Conference champion.

Contents

Standings

TeamOverallConference
WinsLossesPercentageWinsLossesPercentage
Atlantic Conference
Eastern Division
Ohio Valley Greyhounds-xy1130.786610.857
Atlantic City CardSharks 950.643620.750
Carolina Stingrays 570.417450.444
Staten Island Xtreme 3110.214270.222
Greenville Riverhawks 040.000030.000
Southern Division
Houma Bayou Bucks 1130.786920.818
Tupelo FireAnts 860.571550.500
Beaumont Drillers 860.571450.444
Lake Charles Land Sharks 770.500360.333
Waco Marshals 280.200140.250
Northern Division
Lexington Horsemen-xy1040.714510.833
Fort Wayne Freedom 860.571330.500
Show-Me Believers 950.643240.333
Evansville BlueCats 4100.286240.333
Pacific Conference
Northern Division
Sioux Falls Storm 1130.786610.857
Omaha Beef 950.643420.667
Sioux City Bandits 860.571330.500
Lincoln Capitols 3110.214050.000
Western Division
Billings Outlaws 1130.786610.857
Utah Warriors 780.467220.500
Wyoming Cavalry 590.357240.333
Black Hills Red Dogs 3110.214150.000
Southern Division
Tri-City Diesel-xy1140.733601.000
Wichita Falls Thunder 180.111030.000
Oklahoma Crude 1110.083030.000
Colorado Venom 010.000000.000

Playoffs

                  
St. Charles, Missouri   Wheeling, West Virginia      
 5 Fort Wayne 45
 5 Fort Wayne 35
 4 Show-Me 28   Wheeling, West Virginia
 2 Ohio Valley 36 
Atlantic Conference
Lexington, Kentucky  3 Lexington 35
Houma, Louisiana
  2 Ohio Valley 34 
 6 Atlantic City 25Atlantic Conference Championship
 3 Lexington 70
 3 Lexington 54  Sioux Falls, South Dakota
 1 Houma 63 
Round 1 
 
Kearney, Nebraska  A3 Lexington 59
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
  P2 Sioux Falls 38
 6 Utah 59Indoor Bowl IV
 6 Utah 41
 3 Tri-City 42   Billings, Montana
 2 Sioux Falls 65 
Pacific Conference
Omaha, Nebraska  2 Sioux Falls 44
Billings, Montana
  1 Billings 13 
 5 Sioux City 40Pacific Conference Championship
 4 Omaha 59
 4 Omaha 46 
 1 Billings 68 

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