Owners for the Continental Indoor Football League will gather Sept. 27 in Canton, Ohio, for an "informal" league meeting, league co-founder Jeff Spitaleri said.
Spitaleri expects Fort Wayne to be represented at the meeting and said he fully intends for the city to have a team in the league in 2009.
He's just not sure which other cities will have teams.
Spitaleri said Saginaw and Muskegon still have contracts with the CIFL. Those teams have been "extended offers" to join the Indoor Football League, according to a statement from that league. So it's hard to say what will happen with those teams. Saginaw is the defending champion.
For now, Spitaleri said the league could have 10-12 teams in 2009. Part of next weekend will be spent discussing expansion possibilities, among other things.
"We're going to present the structural changes we're making with the league," Spitaleri said. "We're also going to be collecting our arena dates, setting some deadlines for some things to take us through the next few months and into the next owners' meeting (in January)."
-- By Stacy Clardie, The Journal Gazette
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