Taking a Break From the Draft to Talk About....

by Chris on Apr 26, 2007 8:45 AM CDT

More football! Well I think "football" is more appropriate, as in Arena League Football. As I'm listening to the radio this morning, I hear that the Kansas City Brigade is having mega star Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite appear at this Friday's game against the Colorado Crush. Now, hold on just a second. Back it up and click on that Brigade link. That could be the worst looking splash page advertisement I've seen for a "professional" sports team.

I've never been to an Arena League game and only barely seen one on television. Since I'm going crazy with Trent Green rumors, LJ rumors and who in the hell we're going to draft, lets take a break for a few minutes and give us your thoughts on the Kansas City Brigade or any Arena team. I thought I knew a girl who was a cheerleader for the Brigade but a quick look at their squad photo shows she isn't one. The cheerleaders may be the best thing about this whole league at the moment.

Ever been to a game? Love the AFL? Hate it? I'd be curious to know everyone's thoughts.

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Season Ticket HOlder Last Year

We got season tickets last year & made it through 1/2 of one game & gave the rest of the tickets away. It is hard to watch it because the rules are different. This parent sitting next to me was trying to explain the rules to his son & I was cringing at the thought of this young kid learning the wrong rules.

We catch it on teevee everyone once in a while.

There is no substitute for the NFL - none.

You play to win the game!

by tailgateandwin on Apr 26, 2007 10:45 AM CDT 0 recs

How different

are the rules?

by Chris on Apr 26, 2007 10:48 AM CDT up 0 recs

The rules are.. different

I've been to a few af2 (the arena minor league, yikes) games.

First the field is smaller. It's 50 yards long and 85 feet wide with 8 yard end zones. I think this drives most of the rule changes.

There are only 8 men on each side of the ball. (4 down O-linemen, 3 down D-line.) Only one Linebacker is allowed to blitz. The offense can have receiver in motion when the ball is snapped. As you can imagine, there is a lot of passing. (NCAA rule on being inbounds on catches.)

The only really odd thing is the kicking game. The goal posts are narrower, the cross bar is higher and there are nets to either side of the goal posts. If a kicked (or thrown) ball hits the net, it's a live ball. There isn't any punting.
Scoring is the same as the NFL, with the exception of drop kicks. If a team drop kicks a ball successfully, they get an extra point (making a PAT kick with 2 and a field goal worth 4.)

Aaron

by AirHead on Apr 27, 2007 6:01 PM CDT up 0 recs