The Mobile Seagulls were a short-lived indoor football promotion that played parts of two summer seasons in the coastal Alabama city in 2000 and 2001. The Gulls played in the Indoor Professional Football League (IPFL) in 2000 and moved to the National Indoor Football League (NIFL) in 2001. The team disbanded midway through its second season in July 2002.
The Texas Terminators were an Austin-based indoor football team that played for a single season in the Indoor Professional Football League from April to August 1999. The Terminators made their home at the Travis County Exposition Center, a 6,000-seat rodeo barn with no air conditioning. The team was stocked with former University of Texas Longhorns, including record-setting quarterback James Brown and running back Butch Hadnot. After a superb regular season, the Longhorns hosted the IPFL championship game in August 1999 in what would prove to be the team’s final game.
The Idaho Stallions were a perpetually troubled indoor football team that played three seasons in the Indoor Football League from 1999 through 2001. The Stallions played in Nampa at the Idaho Center in 1999 before moving to Boise’s Bank of America Centre for its final two seasons. The team was known as the “Boise Stallions” during their final season in 2001, which saw the team lose its ownership in midseason and cancel several games in order to save money.
The Rocky Mountain Thunder was an indoor football team based in Colorado Springs, Colorado that played one season in the Indoor Professional Football League (IPFL) during the summer of 1999. The IPFL was a small league of just six members that season, with other franchises in Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Players were primarily local guys and paychecks were modest at $200 per game. The Thunder played at the $59 million World Arena, which had opened just a year earlier.
The Trenton Lightning were an indoor football team that managed to play just six games during April and May of 2001. The team, coached by former Denver Broncos running back Vaughn Hebron, lost all six of its contests before financial scandals caused the team to disband. Later investigations revealed that Lightning founder Philip Subhan, an American Express Financial Advisor, funded the team with money embezzled from his clients. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2004.
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