Eight weeks into this season, the American Arena League is still a hot mess. Nevermind that two teams folded before the season started, and rumors are swirling about the East Carolina Torch joining them. Put aside the abrupt departure of a league co-founder whose resignation was accepted at exactly 9:08 on April 14 with an … More AAL Needs To Define Itself . . . Like Right Now!
Arena football finally got rocking last weekend as the upstart Massachusetts Pirates and Maine Mammoths opened the National Arena League’s second season before an energized crowd of nearly 5,500 at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts on Saturday night. The game, a convincing 51-24 win for the Pirates behind former Ivy League and AFL quarterback … More Raucous Crowd Spurs Pirates in NAL Opener
It’s been three days now since former Jersey Flight DB John Williams lost his life in a car accident hours after his team’s home opener last Friday night. Most of us heard the news through Anthony Caruso’s report on The Capital Sports Report just after midnight this morning, and assorted Facebook and Instagram comments primarily from … More Flight, AAL, Still Silent on Death of Williams
There’s a mystique about football played on rugs under a concrete sky. From a sufficient distance it is resplendent in its furious pace, wide open action, and those quivering dasher boards after a hard hit, so you think, hey why not? Worst case, it’s just one night. But you’re bewitched by the possibility that it … More The Fifty Yarder Mission
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