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Vinny Samarco <[log in to unmask]>
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what do you do about play-by-play announcing for the game?
V.s.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 9:10 PM
Subject: Arena Footbal For Christians


> 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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