2001 Rocky Mountain Football League season

2001 Season
The 2001 season started long before any football was played with a hot political battlefield of league affiliations. The Montana teams (Bozeman and Great Falls) decided to test waters in the "NAFL". Under new management, Idaho Falls was convinced to prove themselves in the neigboring UFL and Treasure Valley and Billings folded up shop. What emerged, however, from a depleted RMFL field in 2001 was a new powerhouse football team, the Pocatello Silverbacks. As Pocatello was the original charter city of the league, it became appropriate that new life was breathed into the Rocky Mountain's premier league by a new team from Pocatello. After the league's original champion, Rocky Mountain Bulls folded after the 1999 season and merged with the Fort Hall Cobras, there was a year of no football in Pocatello. The Silverbacks restored football to the "Gate City" and became part of an Idaho surge that vaulted Idaho teams into 4 of the top twenty ranked positions in AA Semi-pro football. After coming behind from a 17-6 deficit in the second quarter of the RMFL championship game to the Boise Roughriders (formerly Boise "Cardinals"), the Silverbacks came back and decisively captured the championship 48-20. Pocatello finished the season ranked 10th in the nation in AA football. They joined previous RMFL champions, Idaho Falls and Snake River as well as RMFL runner-up Boise in the top 20 AA teams in the country.

2001 Rocky Mountain Football League Standings
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