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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