Phil, yep, Curt Warner, before he went to the Rams, before their
Super Bowl year, did well in Arena football. Before that, he played
his college ball at the University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls,
and, I think, won a championship for the Panthers, too.
earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>For those who have no idea what I am talking about, arena football is played
>inside arenas. That makes sense, right? Anyhow, it is a 50 yard field
>instead of a 100 yard field as in pro football. Arena football is hard
>hitting, fast, played with the fans sitting right down on the out of bounds
>walls, and the fans can even reach over the wall and knock a pass away and
>that is legal. No fooling. Plus, the scores run normally well over 50
>points for both teams, if they are good, and many times run up into the low
>seventies, and the rules, or many of the rules, are very different than big
>football. One cool thing about arena football is the timing. Timing is
>absolutely everything in arena football. In fact, 9 out of 10 games are won
>in the last 1 minute of the game. So no bathroom breaks are allowed in the
>last two or three minutes of an arena game or you'll miss who won and how.
>The players are just as big, just as tough, and are often guys who didn't
>get picked for the pro teams or have been traded and didn't like the trade
>so went to arena football instead. If you think the guys are tough in the
>pro football games, you should watch an arena game. It is about like pro
>boxing, which I hate, but they play rough in arena games and really pound
>away at each other as they run the plays. I don't mean they literally hit
>each other, it is just like pro football, but these guys slam into each
>other like a freight train and a cement truck because due to the shorter
>field, they know they don't get a second chance. So, in many respects, I
>like them better than the pro games.
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>Phil.
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