Another thing I like about arena football is that the
weather doesn't play a factor. There is no rain or
snow to slow down a team that has a good ofence.
Todd
--- Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> 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.
>
> Phil.
>
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