1998 PIFL Teams
- Colorado Wildcats – based in Denver, Colorado
- Green Bay Bombers
- Honolulu Hurricanes
- Louisiana Bayou Beast - based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Madison Mad Dogs
- Minnesota Monsters - based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
- Texas Bullets - based in Belton, Texas
- Utah Catzz - based in Orem, Utah
During the planning stages of the Professional Indoor Football League the Louisiana Bayou Best were going to be called the Louisiana Crawdads; also during the planning stages Sacramento, California and Buffalo, New York were awarded charter memberships in the league. Both franchises had nicknames and looked ready to hit the field with the rest of the league for the 1998 season. The Sacramento Majestics and the Buffalo Blitz never made it. The Sacramento Majestics folded while the Buffalo Blitz moved first to Rochester, New York and became the Rochester Blitz then the franchise moved again this time to Syracuse, New York and became the Syracuse Blitz. The Syracuse Blitz never were a full-time member of the PIFL but did play a few exhibition games and were under consideration for membership as an expansion team for 1999. The reason for the club's relocation from Buffalo to Rochester then finally Syracuse was that the Arena Football League was looking into Miami, Florida and Buffalo, New York as markets for expansion. The AFL did add the Buffalo Destroyers as an expansion team in 1999. Besides the Syracuse Blitz there was a number of teams that played exhibition games against the full-time members of the PIFL. Those clubs were the West Virginia (Charleston) Wizards, Las Vegas Outlaws, and Tucson Mirage. Tucson later called itself the Arizona Mirage. These teams and many other cites were possible expansion teams that may have joined the PIFL for the league's second season in 1999.
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