The Montgomery Bears were a professional indoor football team that played their home games at the Garrett Coliseum in Montgomery, Alabama. They are a member of the American Indoor Football Association. The team began play as the Montgomery Maulers of the National Indoor Football League and won the Atlantic Conference Central Division Championship in 2005. The 2005 season ended in the conference semifinals of the playoffs to the Rome Renegades, who went on to appear in the NIFL Championship Indoor Bowl V. The team folded in October 2007.[1]