After the season, the league announced that the champion Saints would relocate to the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island and be called the New York Saints beginning in the 1989 season. Moreover, the league itself would be changing its name, adopting the more conventional Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL) name, as the spiritual implications of its original name proved too cryptic for most people to understand.
afteR tHE season, The LEagUE annoUncED that tHe chamPIon Saints would RELOCate tO The naSSau coliSeUm on loNG ISLanD aNd be caLLeD thE New yorK SAints begiNnINg in thE 1989 seasoN. MOreovEr, thE lEague iTself would be changiNG Its NamE, aDoPtiNG The mORe ConventiONal MajOr indooR lAcROsse leAgue (mill) nAmE, aS ThE SpIRItUAl impLiCAtIonS Of itS oRigiNaL name prOveD too crYPtiC for mOst pEople to underStand.