The2012 American Indoor Football season was the league's seventh overall season, and first under theAIF name. AIF Championship Bowl V was won by theCape Fear Heroes who defeated theCalifornia Eagles and completed a perfect 9–0 record (including playoffs).
| 2012 American Indoor Football season | |
|---|---|
| League | American Indoor Football |
| Sport | Indoor football |
| AIF Championship Bowl V | |
| Champions | Cape Fear Heroes |
| Runners-up | California Eagles |
| AIF seasons | |
← 2011 2013 → | |
TheNevada Lynx were a professional indoor football team that played in 2012. They competed in only four games during their brief existence. Their inaugural game was on March 6, 2012, on the road against theArizona Outlaws, but lost 40–13.[1] One game was supposed to be played by theNorth Alameda Knights, but the Lynx stepped in. Then they competed in two early-season matchups against Arizona and Ontario, but then was shutout 92–0 and fell 66–6 later in the season.[2]
| Team | Overall | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wins | Losses | Percentage | ||||
| Eastern Conference | ||||||
| Cape Fear Heroes[3] | 7 | 0 | 1.000 | |||
| Harrisburg Stampede | 6 | 1 | .857 | |||
| Carolina Force[4] | 3 | 3 | .500 | |||
| Maryland Reapers | 1 | 5 | .167 | |||
| Macon Steel | 1 | 4 | .200 | |||
| Tri-State Redhawks | 1 | 3 | .250 | |||
| Virginia Badgers | 0 | 3 | .000 | |||
| Western Conference | ||||||
| California Eagles | 3 | 2 | .600 | |||
| Arizona Outlaws | 1 | 4 | .200 | |||
| Nevada Lynx | 0 | 4 | .000 | |||
| North Alameda Knights | 0 | 0 | – | |||
| Ontario Warriors[5] | 7 | 0 | 1.000 | |||
| Conference Semifinals | Conference Championships[6] | AIF Championship Bowl V | |||||||||||
| W1 | California | 27 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Harrisburg | 32 | E1 | Cape Fear | 79 | ||||||||
| 3 | Carolina | 20 | 1 | Cape Fear | 57 | ||||||||
| 2 | Harrisburg | 68 | |||||||||||