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The Sioux Falls Storm are a professional indoor football team. They are a founding member of the United Indoor Football (UIF). They play their home games at Sioux Falls Arena (also known as the Storm Shelter & also the home to the NBA D-League's Sioux Falls Skyforce). Indoor football is a variation of American football with rules modified to make it suitable for play within basketball gymnasiums and, particularly, ice hockey arenas. ... United Indoor Football is an indoor American football league that was started in 2005. ... The Sioux Falls Arena is a 4,800 seat multi-purpose arena in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. ... The NBA Development League, or D-League, is the National Basketball Associations officially sponsored and operated developmental basketball organization. ... The Sioux Falls Skyforce are a basketball team that play in the NBA Development League. ...

The Sioux Falls Storm are charter members of the UIF and were the first ever UIF Champions with a win over the Sioux City Bandits in 2005. Before helping to create the UIF in 2005, the Storm were members of the NIFL and the IFL (Sioux Falls Cobras). The Storm hosted the 2004 NIFL championship game against the Lexington Horsemen in the Storm Shelter in front of a sellout crowd. The Horsemen won the championship game, but the Storm beat the Horsemen in the 2nd round of the 2005 Playoffs. The Lexington Horsemen are a professional Indoor football team. ...

The Sioux Falls Storm won their second consecutive UIF championship in 2006 on their home turf, defeating the Lexington Horseman 72-64 on July 29th, 2006, making them the only champion the UIF has ever known. The 2006 Sioux Falls Storm will go down in history with the 1948 Cleveland Browns, 1972 Miami Dolphins, 2000 Peoria Pirates, and 2003 Ohio Valley Greyhounds as the only teams in professional football history to go through an entire season undefeated (it should be noted that the UIF hardly qualifies as "professional football"). It goes without saying that the 2006 Storm will go down in history as one of the greatest indoor football teams ever assembled. QB, and purse thief, Terrance Bryant named United Bowl II MVP after throwing eight touchdowns in the contest vs. Horsemen. THey also employ the Sack Master Nate Fluit, who has recorded 16.5 and 15.5 sacks the last two years respectively.

They are also the only team in Arena Football history to post a shutout, beating the Peoria Rough Riders 71-0 on June 3, 2006.

As of July 29th, 2007, The Storm have not lost a game since July 15, 2005 and are currently on a 37-game win streak (with one game left in the playoffs)(United Bowl III)...the longest in professional sports history.

On Saturday, August 4th, 2007, the Storm face the Lexington Horsemen at the "Storm Shelter" for the 3rd time in the history of both teams. With a win they can be the first team to go through 2 undefeated seasons back-to-back.

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