North American Indoor Football League (2005)

The North American Indoor Football League was a proposed indoor football league that announced plans in 2004 to begin play in fourteen Canadian cities beginning in February 2005. The game played was to be a unique indoor version of Canadian football. Teams were to be centrally owned, and former Edmonton Eskimos quarterback Tom Wilkinson was to serve as league president. The league never played a single game and its website went offline in early 2006.

The 14 teams announced were:

East Division

  • Frederiction Feud
  • Halifax Havoc
  • Montreal Machete
  • Ottawa Omega
  • Quebec Quantum
  • St. John's Storm
  • Toronto Terror

West Division

  • Calgary Crusade
  • Edmonton Extreme
  • Regina Rage
  • Saskatoon Swarm
  • Vancouver Victory
  • Victoria Valor
  • Winnipeg War

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