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Chapters: Las Vegas Gladiators, Cleveland Gladiators, 2007 Las Vegas Gladiators Season, 2003 Las Vegas Gladiators Season, 2004 Las Vegas Gladiators Season, 2005 Las Vegas Gladiators Season, 2006 Las Vegas Gladiators Season, Anaheim Piranhas. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Cleveland Gladiators are an arena football franchise based in Cleveland, Ohio which will play in the new Arena Football League for its inaugural 2010 season. The franchise was previously a member of the defunct original Arena Football League and was originally based in East Rutherford, New Jersey and later in Las Vegas, Nevada. The New Jersey Red Dogs entered the Arena Football League in 1997, along with the Nashville Kats and the New York CityHawks. Their ownership group, which was led by New Jersey radio entrepreneur E. Burke Ross, also included several ex-NFL players, such as Joe Morris, Carl Banks, and Harry Carson. The Red Dogs played at Continental Airlines Arena in the East Rutherford, New Jersey. The AFL's intention was to add only New Jersey and Nashville for 1997. However, well after the awarding of the Red Dogs and Kats franchises, the owners of Madison Square Garden in New York City requested a franchise of their own, and the league granted this request. And so the CityHawks also began play in 1997. This had an impact on the Red Dogs, in that the league then prevented the Red Dogs from advertising in New York. While North Jersey itself is very populous in its own right, the Red Dogs had hoped to be the team for the entire New York metropolitan area. Despite this setback, the Red Dogs management built a good team, which opened its history in memorable fashion. The team won 8 of its first 9 games, including a victory in their inaugural game on a last-second game...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=328210 ... Read more

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Chapters: Alabama Vipers Players, Arizona Rattlers Players, Jacksonville Sharks Players, David Saunders, Chris Sanders, Garland Rivers, Lance Mitchell, Cecil Doggette, Bob Mcmillen, Aaron Garcia, Donnie Davis, Dan Alexander, Joe Germaine, Martay Jenkins, Sherdrick Bonner, Atnaf Harris, Hunkie Cooper, Jason Witczak, Mark Tucker, Jeff Smoker, Siaha Burley, Lang Campbell, Darrell Shropshire, Mkristo Bruce, David Miller, Chris Horn, Jordan Palmer, Johnathan Ingram, Phil Glover, Vince Redd, Anttaj Hawthorne, Kevin Eakin, Paul Edinger, Bernard Morris, Björn Nittmo, Jeron Harvey, Tim Watson, Jasper Harvey, Jerald Brown, Joe Burch, Rufus Brown, Todd Devoe, Patrick Afif, Monreko Crittenden, Luis Zendejas, Ronald Jones, Kelvin Morris, Paul Justin, Atlas Herrion, Troy Reddick, Aric Williams, Alex Guerrero, William Obeng, Dee Webb, Isaiah Trufant, Riley Swanson, Bo Kelly, Ahmad Hawkins, Clevan Thomas, Craig Ritter, Nick Davila, Hamin Milligan, Corey Johnson, Jason Jones, Chris Mckenzie, Eric Houle, Gene Nudo, Wendall Gaines, Jason Willis, Clay Rush, Bernard Riley, Calvin Schexnayder, Randy Gatewood, Charles Frederick, Larry Edwards, Nelson Garner, Micheaux Robinson, Jason Perry, Ryan Moore, Irving Campbell, Evan Hlavacek, Joseph Todd. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 222. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: David Saunders (born January 31, 1976 in Toledo, Ohio), is an arena football wide receiver and linebacker who is currently a free agent in the Arena Football League. He played collegiate football for West Virginia University. In his career, Saunders has played for the New Jersey Red Dogs, New Jersey Gladiators, Grand Rapids Rampage, Columbus Destroyers and Tampa Bay Storm. Saunders began playing football his freshman year. He was a first-team All-State pick in the Illinois big school divisio...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10855142 ... Read more

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This is a complete guide to the football stadiums of the 114 colleges and universities that are in the NCAA Division I-A. Information for each stadium includes the year it opened, its current seating capacity, its special features, the dates, descriptions, costs and financing of any renovation or addition, and its playing field surface. Related information includes the team mascot, nickname, colors, fight song, and year of the school's first intercollegiate football game. The names and tenure of all athletic directors and head coaches since the stadium opened are provided as well. ... Read more

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Pure Pulp
Another review for this book contends that you can "marvel at the pictures for hours."Absolutely correct.You can marvel at how poor the picture quality is.You can marvel at the terrible grade of paper used.Mostly, you can marvel at the fact that someone actually deemed this worth publishing.

Complete waste of time and money
First, let me clarify my passion for college football: I visit the websites of other teams just to learn their gameday traditions, I follow the stories and histories that make every Saturday game a 'big game,' -heck, I play college video games to "virtually" visit the 117 stadiums that are out there.So when I bought a book calling itself "An Illustrated Guide" to college stadiums, I expect to read a little more than technical data and some very mediocre B&W photos.This book seems slapped together with information that any halfway intellegent fan could look up on the internet (with color photos no less).Adding an extra layer of insult, the book, although published in 2000, still has stadium pictures that are more than several years out of date (i.e. stadiums built pre-1998 are still shown in their "model" phase).

College Football Fan and Fanatics: Do not, I repeat, DO NOT waste your money on this book.Just look up the info on a search engine, you'll get way more information in a much nicer package (or you could buy the latest college football video game and see them all in virtual form).Anyway would be better than this book.

Complete waste of time and money
First, let me clarify my passion for college football: I visit the websites of other teams just to learn their gameday traditions, I follow the stories and histories that make every Saturday game a 'big game,' -heck, I play college video games to "virtually" visit the 117 stadiums that are out there.So when I bought a book calling itself "An Illustrated Guide" to college stadiums, I expect to read a little more than technical data and some very mediocre B&W photos.This book seems slapped together with information that any halfway intellegent fan could look up on the internet (with color photos no less).Adding an extra layer of insult, the book, although published in 2000, still has stadium pictures that are more than several years out of date (i.e. stadiums built pre-1998 are still shown in their "model" phase).

College Football Fan and Fanatics: Do not, I repeat, DO NOT waste your money on this book.Just look up the info on a search engine, you'll get way more information in a much nicer package (or you could buy the latest college football video game and see them all in virtual form).Anyway would be better than this book.

an insightful college football stadium book
This book is an information packed encyclopedia for anyone who is interested in architecture and stadiums, or for anyone who just likes college football. 110 stadiums in lively colorful pictures and surrounded with facts such as capacity, dates, the team, the mascot, information about stadium renovations, and little unique facts that people don't ususlly realize. A great book. Extremely detailed. You can sit and just marvel at the pictures for hours. This is a book not to pass by. There are not many about college stadiums, and this one is the best you will find. ... Read more

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He began with no athletic ability. His pass-catching skills were so bad that he was told he couldn’t catch a cold if he were butt-naked. He fell flat on his facemask during a six-minute jog. He was tormented by referees, subjected to rookie initiation pranks, called Rudy by fans and intimidated by a 250-pound ex-NFL player.

Welcome to Jeff Foley’s adventure in the Arena Football League. A five-foot-six, 180-pound writer, Foley is every bit the average individual. But the AFL’s Albany Firebirds agreed to let him join their squad as an offensive specialist/writer in 1999 and 2000. So, despite never having played a down of organized football – no Pop Warner, high school or college gridiron experience – Foley played in three professional contests, running pass patterns against seasoned athletes, competing in front of more than 10,000 people. He lived every fan’s dream. Or nightmare?

He endured grueling practice sessions, hits, injuries and road trips, and attended team meetings and meals. He was a part of locker room conversations. He was overjoyed by the thrill of success, and dealt with the disappointment that accompanies failure. Foley experienced all life in the AFL has to offer. And lived to write about it.

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A vulgar attempt to glorify the Ar.FL, which I have loved and reported on since 1987...
Jeff Foley talked a good bit and
I remember him introing the book
on the Ar.FL halftime of a TNN
game (talking to the alltime
hottest Football woman, Jill
Arrington, son of ex-Phlliy back-
up QB, Rick. Bring back Jill!).
I was shocked at the vulgar language
in Foley's book! This is not suitable
for kids to read, in my opinion. It's
good to see a book out there on the
greatest sports ever invented in the
history of the universe (Thank you
Jim Foster, Ray Jauch, Mouse Davis!),
but he could have cleaned it up! And
that team is no longer around! Could
have been a contender!

I was there.
Totally amazing book. My Wife & I were season ticket holders from day one of the Milwaukee Mustangs (3rd row at the 5 yard line) and we were in attendance at both games.

Very entertaining book from beginning to end. Must read for any Arena Football fan.

The Day I bought the book I was telling my wife about George Plimton. Open the book and chapter one is titled "Plimpton would be proud".

Jeff and I are the exact same size 5'6" - 180 and there is no way I would have put myself in his shoes.

Thanks for the memories, and great job.

Jacques from Kenosha

A new perspective
People often wonder what it would be like to live life over again - what they might change if they knew what they know now.I used to think that maybe I could have been more of an athlete and maybe a football player...but this book made me happy to be where I am, which is in the stands, where I belong.This book provides you a fabulous firsthand look at the life of a football player from inside the locker room and on the field.It's sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, but very entertaining the whole way through.

Even though it's the Arena League and not the NFL, it's no less of an accomplishment to make it to this level of competition.This really hits home when Jeff describes one player who quit the Firebirds training camp saying that he had no idea that guys in this league were as good as they were.

The opportunity for a writer to join a team in this manner to get this perspective and this story may never happen again, so if you ever thought you'd like another shot at life to become one of those guys you see on television, read this book...then join me in the stands.

Living every football fan's dream
A book every true football fan should read.Author Jeff Foley is allowed to spend the preseason as a member of the Albany Firebirds of the Arena Football League, not as a reporter hiding in the shadows but as a true professional football player.That's the rule, he is to be treated just as any other player on the team.As a rookie he receives his share of hazing but also earns the respect and support of his team mates because Jeff proves his courage, heart and his unwillingness to quit.From pregame preparation talks to post game meetings, Jeff Foley shows that there really is a special man behind each and every face mask.The reader learns that even though the players come from different backgrounds and may even be compeating for the same roster spot, a team is a unique type of family.Locker room antics, childhood memories, daily practice sessions and the games are interlaced into a "can't put it down" story.

Behind the scenes on the playing field in arena football
I was very excited to read "War on the Floor" when I heard about it.I am a big Firebird's fan, and even though I didn't know about the team when they were in Albany, there are still some players that are on the Indiana team, and they by far are the best group of guys you'll ever meet!
Jeff tells about what it was like in the everyday routine of getting up early and having to be on a cold, rainy field to practice for the team.When he first arrived at training camp, the guys weren't sure if he was for real about playing and writing about the team.As days went by, Jeff became one of the guys, and he was determined to stick with the practices and "gassers", (and you'll just have to find out what I mean by this by reading the book)!Jeff endured the pain and the joy of being on an arena football team and tells what it is like and the determination to not quit when you start something!It talks about how the team members encouraged Jeff to not quit and to keep on!
Even if you are not a Firebirds fan, I think you will enjoy the book for its sincerity, laughs and plain downright competition.
As you will see, once a Firebird, always a Firebird!!I am waiting for the 2nd Edition of the "Tales of Achmel"!Happy reading! ... Read more

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Chapters: Arena Football. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arena football is a variety of gridiron football. It is a proprietary game (the rights to which are owned by Gridiron Enterprises) played indoors on a smaller field than American or Canadian outdoor football, resulting in a faster and higher-scoring game. The sport was invented in 1981, and patented in 1987, by James F. Foster, Jr., a former executive of the National Football League and the United States Football League. Though not the only variant of indoor football, it is the most widely known, and the one on which most other forms of modern indoor football are at least partially based. Two leagues have played under the official arena football rules: the original Arena Football League (1987-2008), which played 22 seasons, and arenafootball2, which played 10 seasons from 2000 through 2009. The new Arena Football League will also use the arena football rulebook when it begins play in April 2010. While attending the Major League Indoor Soccer Allstar game on Feb. 11th, 1981, Foster and another colleague of his from the NFL's front office, at Madison Square Garden Arena, Foster came up with his version of Football and wrote the rules, etc., down on the outside of a manilla folder, which resides at the Arena Football Hall of Fame. Over the next five years, he created a more comprehensive and definitive set of playing rules, playing field specifications and equipment, along with a business plan to launch a proposed small, initial league to test market the concept of arena football nationally. As a key part of that plan, while residing in the Chicago area, he tested the game concept through several closed door practice sessions in late 1985 and early 1986 in nearby Rockford. After fine tuning...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=232092 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Af2, Arenabowl I, Arenacup. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : af2 (nom complet arenafootball2) est le nom d'une ligue mineure de l'Arena Football League, qui a commencé ses activités en 2000. Les règles sont les mêmes que pour l'AFL. af2 joue sa saison d'avril à juillet. Comme la plupart des autres ligues mineures sportives, l'af2 existe pour développer des joueurs de football, et aussi pour aider des joueurs à s'adapter au modèle du football américain en salle. En plus, l'af2 est semblable à d'autres ligues mineures parce que les équipes af2 jouent dans de plus petites villes et de plus petites salles. Alors que l'AFL est jouée dans de plus grandes villes comme Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphie, Dallas, Tampa, Las Vegas, et Chicago, les équipes af2 jouent dans les villes telles que North Little Rock, Green Bay, Huntsville, Manchester, Oklahoma City, Boise, Spokane, Louisville et Tulsa. Les joueurs gagnent également moins dans l'af2, chaque joueur se faisant environ $250 USD par match. En juin 2003, dans une interview avec Sports Illustrated, le commissaire de l'AFL David Baker a brièvement mentionné l'af2, disant comment en un jour, il envisage la ligue avec 100 équipes. En 2006, cette vision semble plutôt peu probable. L'af2 est composée de 30 équipes en 2007. Elle avait 23 équipes en 2006, vingt équipes en 2005 et 25 en 2004. En fait, la ligue a connu des déclins dans le nombre d'équipes chaque année depuis la saison 2002. La saison 2007 continuera l'extension de la ligue avec un gain de sept nouvelles équipes (Macon Knights et Memphis Xplorers sont dissouts). C'est partiellement dû à un accroissement trop rapidement de la ligue (l'af2 a vu 13 nouvelles équipes en 2001, et dix en 2002)...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Michael Bishop, Lance Mitchell, R-Kal Truluck, Tango Mccauley, Sherdrick Bonner, Robert Hunt, Seth Marler, Siaha Burley, Zach Hilton. Excerpt:item Current status : Active item Career highlights and awards item item Selected AFL statistics (through Week 17 of the 2008 AFL season) item Tackles : 15 item Sacks : 2 item Interceptions : 0 item Forced fumbles : 0 item Fumble recoveries : 0 item External stats item Stats at ArenaFootball.com item Stats at ArenaFan.com item Stats at ESPN.com item Stats at Sportsline.com item Stats at pro-football-reference.com Lance Robert Mitchell (born October 9, 1981 in Los Banos , California ) is an American football player who is currently a free agent in both the Arena Football League as a Fullback / Linebacker and the National Football League as a Linebacker. He was originally drafted in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals . He played college football at Oklahoma . In his career, Mitchell has also played for the Orlando Predators , and Arizona Rattlers . High school career Mitchell attended Los Banos High School , where he was a three-year starter and an All-State selection at both linebacker and Running back . As a senior , he averaged 9.6 yards-per-carry, rushed for more than 3,000 yards, and scored 36 touchdowns . His best game as a running back was 12 attempt, 250 yard performance, including six touchdowns. College career Mitchell originally signed with the University of Florida , but the Southeastern Conference ruled him ineligible because an issue with his high school transcript. While in college, he majored in Sociology . S.F. City College Mitchell attended San Francisco City College for two years and helped lead his team to a 24-0 record, two California state championships, and two JuCo Gridwire national champ... ... Read more

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Chapters: Dallas Desperados, Dallas Texans,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 14. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Dallas Desperados were a professional Arena Football team. The Desperados played in the Southern Division of the now-defunct Arena Football League from 2002 to 2008. The franchise began play in 2002 as an expansion team, and have posted a winning record in all but one of their seasons in existence. The team was owned by Jerry Jones, who also owns the Dallas Cowboys. Jones' son-in-law Shy Anderson was the COO of the team, and oversaw the day-to-day operations of the franchise. The original franchise folded effective August 4, 2009, upon the dissolving of the AFL. Though the Arena Football League (2010) league acquired the AFL's assets in December 2009, Jones retained his rights to the Desperados name. During a halftime interview at a Cowboys preseason game on August 12, 2000, Jerry Jones revealed to Babe Laufenberg that the AFL had granted him an expansion franchise to begin play in 2002. The team was originally going to be named the "Dallas Texans", following in the footsteps of Dallas' former AFL franchise which existed from 1990-1993. However, that same year he sold the rights to the name "Texans" for a reported $10 million to the upstart Houston franchise. After a contest in which fans voted via the team's official website, the new Dallas team was eventually named the Desperados. Jones appointed Cowboys special teams coach Joe Avezzano as head coach, and on November 21, 2001 in the AFL expansion draft, they acquired their first player, lineman Aaron Hamilton. The Dallas Desperados in action.Avezzano, along with starting quarterback Andy Kelly, led the team to a respectable 7-7 record and a playoff appearance in the teams first season of play, and a 10-6 record and a s...http://booksllc.net/?id=328181 ... Read more

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Chapters: Arena Football. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arena football is a variety of gridiron football. It is a proprietary game (the rights to which are owned by Gridiron Enterprises) played indoors on a smaller field than American or Canadian outdoor football, resulting in a faster and higher-scoring game. The sport was invented in 1981, and patented in 1987, by James F. Foster, Jr., a former executive of the National Football League and the United States Football League. Though not the only variant of indoor football, it is the most widely known, and the one on which most other forms of modern indoor football are at least partially based. Two leagues have played under the official arena football rules: the original Arena Football League (1987-2008), which played 22 seasons, and arenafootball2, which played 10 seasons from 2000 through 2009. The new Arena Football League will also use the arena football rulebook when it begins play in April 2010. While attending the Major League Indoor Soccer Allstar game on Feb. 11th, 1981, Foster and another colleague of his from the NFL's front office, at Madison Square Garden Arena, Foster came up with his version of Football and wrote the rules, etc., down on the outside of a manilla folder, which resides at the Arena Football Hall of Fame. Over the next five years, he created a more comprehensive and definitive set of playing rules, playing field specifications and equipment, along with a business plan to launch a proposed small, initial league to test market the concept of arena football nationally. As a key part of that plan, while residing in the Chicago area, he tested the game concept through several closed door practice sessions in late 1985 and early 1986 in nearby Rockford. After fine tuning...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=232092 ... Read more

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Chapters: Tampa Bay Storm, Philadelphia Soul,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Tampa Bay Storm are a member of the Arena Football League's new incarnation which begins play in 2010. They were also one of the founding members of the original Arena Football League, then known as the Pittsburgh Gladiators. They are also the last of the original four Arena Football League teams to still exist, marking them as the oldest team in the game's history. They have won five ArenaBowl championships in their existence. They are coached by Tim Marcum. Along with their traditional rivalry, with the Orlando Predators, they share the Arena Football League record for the longest tenure by a franchise in a single market area. They are also the last of the original four franchises (the Chicago Bruisers, Denver Dynamite and Washington Commandos were the other three) to have operated in continuous existence from the formation of the league in 1987 until the present. The franchise was originally known as the Pittsburgh Gladiators, and were one of the original four AFL teams formed in 1987. The team was named by Robert Ninehouser whose entry for the team name was selected in 1987. They originally played their home games at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Gladiators participated in ArenaBowls I and III, losing both. The team moved from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Tampa, Florida in 1991, with the team taking on the "Storm" nickname. The Cleveland Arena Football League franchise now bears the Gladiators name, however, the two organizations share no link in history nor records. On a semi-related note, the Tampa Bay Bandits were set to break from the United States Football League in 1986 and launch another spring football league, which could ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=305311 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tampa Bay Area is represented by teams in four major professional sports leagues: the NFL, the NHL, Major League Baseball, and the Arena Football League. Three of the teams play in Tampa, while the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball play in St. Petersburg.The Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL became the area's first major sports franchise in 1976, and brought the area its first major sports championship at the end of the 2002 season, winning Super Bowl XXXVII against the Oakland Raiders. ... Read more

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Chapters: Toronto Phantoms, Massachusetts Marauders, New England Steamrollers, Connecticut Coyotes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Toronto Phantoms was the final name of a team in the Arena Football League, that also operated in New York City and New England. The New York CityHawks were a team in the Arena Football League. Their name was a reference to the peregrine falcon, several of which make their nests on ledges high up on New York's skyscrapers. Despite the failure of the New York Knights in 1988, the AFL decided once again to make an effort to establish a team in the nation's largest media market, and granted a franchise to the New York CityHawks prior to the 1997 season. The major circumstance that differentiated this situation from that of the Knights was that the CityHawks' owners were also the owners of their home arena Madison Square Garden, whereas the Knights had been tenants there. The Arena Football League had intended to re-enter the New York market in 1997 by putting an expansion team in the New Jersey Meadowlands, located just across the Hudson River from New York City. Among the ownership of the new New Jersey team were several ex-NFL players, most notably former New York Giant Joe Morris. In response to the AFL's placing a team in New Jersey, the Madison Square Garden owners requested a team of their own for the Garden. This request was granted by the League with only months to go before the beginning of the 1997 season, while the New Jersey team had been granted several months earlier. The New Jersey team, the New Jersey Red Dogs, thus had twice the preparation time as did the CityHawks going into both teams' initial season of 1997. The CityHawks played poorly, winning only two of 14 games during their first season, d...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=620385 ... Read more

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Chapters: Kansas City Brigade, St. Louis Stampede,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 14. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Kansas City Brigade are a professional arena football team scheduled to resume play in the new Arena Football League for 2011. The team was founded before the 2006 season. Former Kansas City Chiefs Strong safety Kevin Porter served as head coach. The team played at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri and later moved to the Sprint Center in downtown Kansas City for the 2008 AFL season. The team is owned by a Kansas City local, Chris Likens. One of the most notable co-owners is former Kansas City Chiefs star Neil Smith. Captain Max Runway was named the mascot of the Brigade in June 2007. After the announcement that the New Orleans VooDoo would suspend operations for the 2006 AFL season due to Hurricane Katrina, the AFL awarded an expansion franchise to Kansas City. On November 21, 2005, the AFL announced that the team would be called the Kansas City Brigade. A stealth bomber, modeled after the B-2 Spirits stationed at nearby Whiteman Air Force Base, would represent the team for its logo. Kevin Porter was named the team's first head coach. They would be placed in the National Conference Southern Division, where they would take New Orleans' spot for the year. On February 19, 2006, after losing their very first three games of their inaugural season, the Brigade finally won their first game 45-24 at home against the Columbus Destroyers. On April 9, 2006, after losing six-straight games, the Brigade finally managed their second win, defeating the Los Angeles Avengers 62-45 at home. On April 22, 2006, the Brigade recorded their first road win in franchise history against the Nashville Kats, winning 58-52. By the end of the 2006 season, the Brigade finished with a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3163541 ... Read more

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Chapters: Darryl Pollard, Mike Wilpolt, Chadrick Cone, Phil Glover, James Edward Roe, Ryan Riddle, Craig Whelihan, Lary Kuharich, T. T. Toliver, Corey Pullig, Shalon Baker, Angel Estrada, Doug Plank, Björn Nittmo, Jim Ballard, Jason Fife, Corey Davis, Carlos Martínez, Chris Conlin, Robert Garth, Emmanuel Akah, Mark Duper, George Lafrance, Novo Bojovic, Tim Watson, Donovan Morgan, Jason Palumbis, Reggie Rhodes, Tom Arth, Bret Munsey, Cletidus Hunt, Lavell Boyd, Syvelle Newton, Lawrence Samuels, Tony Wragge, Michael Blair, Antuan Simmons, Mike Hohensee, Willie Gary, Fred Coleman, Rufus Brown, Chad Dukes, Deandrew Rubin, Antoine Burns, Sacha Lancaster, Bill Duff, Andy Mccullough, Kyle Mackey, Bobby Jurasin, Tyronne Jones, Calvin Armstrong, Robert Gordon, Carlos Huerta, Luis Zendejas, Trestin George, Delvin Myles, Derrick Lewis, Dwayne Missouri, Rob Milanese, Khalil Carter, Wasswa Serwanga, Brian Partlow, Weylan Harding, Aaron Bailey, Kevin Beard, Mike Neu, Kevin Porter, Ernest Allen, Leif Murphy, Lonnie Ford, Dary Myricks, Lenzie Jackson, Jermaine Smith, Travis Hannah, Nate Coggins, Erik Wilhelm, Tony Locke, Tony Ollison, Cornelius White, Marcus Knight, Junior Lord, Leon Murray, Ryan Vena, Russell Shaw, Steve Thonn, Carl Ford, Brian Noble, Mark Kamphaus, Brian Mitchell, D. J. Bleisath, Aaron Mills, Buchie Ibeh, Nick Steitz, Xavier Beitia, Kevin Gaines, Deon Dyer, Reggie Stephens, Arenacup X, Patrick Downey, Brian Mann, Tramain Jones, Herkie Walls, Eric Houle, Sean Scott, Will Mcclay, Gene Nudo, Andre Bowden, Javarus Dudley, Damen Wheeler, Willie Wyatt, Anthony Derricks, Bernard Riley, Todd Shell, Matt Kinsinger, Donvetis Franklin, Silas Demary, Leroy Thompson, Terrence Stubbs, Travis Cole, Ed Hodgkiss, Levelle Brown, Cecil Caldwell, Rupert Grant, Nelson Garner, Ricky Sharpe, Raheem Orr, Dameon Porter, Joe Douglass, Joe Jacobs, Cornelius Bonner, Donald Sweeney, Darrell Wright, Craig Kusick, Jr., Dan Frantz, David Cool, Winfield...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9821165 ... Read more

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Chapters: Napster, Arena Football League, Inslaw, Peanut Corporation of America, Circuit City, Air America, Equity Media Holdings, Acclaim Entertainment, Mervyns, Steve ... Read more

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Chapters: 2008 Arena Football League Season, 2008 Ncaa Division I Fcs Football Season, 2008 National Football League Season, Super Bowl Xliii, 2008 Nfl Season, 2008 Nfl Draft, 2008-09 Nfl Playoffs, 2008 Philadelphia Soul Season, 2008 Appalachian State Mountaineers Football Team, 2008 Cleveland Gladiators Season, 2008 San Jose Sabercats Season, 2008 Grand Rapids Rampage Season, 2008 Dallas Desperados Season, 2008 Chicago Rush Season, 2008 Orlando Predators Season, 2008 Georgia Force Season, 2008 New York Dragons Season, 2008 Colorado Crush Season, 2008 Utah Blaze Season, 2008 Savannah State Tigers Football Team, 2008 Tampa Bay Storm Season, 2008 Bryant Bulldogs Football Team, 2008 Los Angeles Avengers Season, 2008 Arizona Rattlers Season, 2008 New Orleans Voodoo Season, 2008 Columbus Destroyers Season, 2008 Jacksonville State Gamecocks Football Team, 2008 Morgan State Bears Football Team, 2009 Pro Bowl, 2008 Northern Iowa Panthers Football Team, 2008 Bafl Season, 2008 Richmond Spiders Football Team, 2008 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens Football Team, 2008 North Dakota State Bison Football Team, 2008 Texas Vs. Texas Tech Football Game, 2008 Montana Grizzlies Football Team, 2008 Intense Football League Season, 2008 Continental Indoor Football League, 2008 Upper Deck Trading Card Products, 2008 Montana State Bobcats Football Team, 2008 William ... Read more

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Chapters: . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Arena Football League (AFL) was an indoor American football league founded in 1987 by Jim Foster. It was played indoors on a smaller field than American football, resulting in a faster-paced and higher-scoring game. The sport was invented in the early 1980s and patented by Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League and the National Football League. The AFL would play 22 seasons from 1987 to 2008 before large debts forced the league to suspend operations in search of a more profitable business model. In December 2008 the league's owners canceled the 2009 season to begin work on developing a long-term plan to improve its economic model. Unable to agree upon a viable economic plan for the future of the league, the AFL suspended operations indefinitely on August 4, 2009, with Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation following in December of that year. On September 28, 2009, the Arena Football 1 league was formed, containing multiple former AFL and af2 teams, and also new franchises; AF1 purchased the AFL's assets (including its history and team names) in December 2009. A new Arena Football 1 league was formed with 16 teams to begin starting April 2, 2010. On February 17, 2010, the AF1 announced it changed its name to the Arena Football League, returning to the original league name. Jim Foster, a promotions manager with the National Football League, conceived the idea of indoor football while watching an indoor soccer match at Madison Square Garden in 1981. While at the game, he wrote his idea on a 9x12 envelope from his briefcase with sketches of the field and notes on gameplay. His presented the idea to a few friends at the NFL offices, where he received praise and encouragement for his c...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=59084 ... Read more

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Chapters: List of Tampa Bay Storm seasons, List of Orlando Predators seasons, List of Arizona Rattlers seasons, List of Cleveland Gladiators seasons, List of New York Dragons seasons, List of San Jose SaberCats seasons, List of Chicago Rush seasons, List of Massachusetts Marauders seasons, List of Grand Rapids Rampage seasons, List of Columbus Destroyers seasons, List of Florida Bobcats seasons, List of Dallas Desperados seasons, List of Georgia Force seasons, List of Oklahoma Wranglers seasons, List of Colorado Crush seasons, List of Los Angeles Avengers seasons, List of Philadelphia Soul seasons, List of Utah Blaze seasons, List of Anaheim Piranhas seasons, List of New Orleans VooDoo seasons, List of Kansas City Brigade seasons, List of Carolina Cobras seasons, List of Austin Wranglers seasons, List of Charlotte Rage seasons, List of Denver Dynamite seasons,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 69. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Tampa Bay Storm is a professional arena football franchise of the new Arena Football League (AFL) based in Tampa, Florida. The franchise was originally known as the Pittsburgh Gladiators, and was one of the founding members of the original Arena Football League (AFL) teams formed in 1987. The Storm is the oldest team in AFL, since the other original teams, Chicago Bruisers, Denver Dynamite, and Washington Commandos, have all folded. They are the last of the original four franchises to have operated in continuous existence from the formation of the league until the present. The Gladiators participated in ArenaBowl I and ArenaBowl III, losing both games. The franchise moved from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Tampa, Florida in 1991, and changed its name to the Tampa Bay Storm. In Tampa, the Storm won ArenaBowl V, ArenaBowl VII, ArenaBowl IX, ArenaBowl X, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19227002 ... Read more

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Chapters: Arena Football League in Los Angeles, San Jose Sabercats, Los Angeles Avengers, Florida Bobcats, Los Angeles Cobras, Anaheim Piranhas. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The San Jose SaberCats are a professional arena football team scheduled to resume play in the new Arena Football League for 2011. They began play as a 1995 expansion team. They played in the Western Division of the American Conference. Their final coach in the original Arena Football League was Darren Arbet, who will be a part of the ownership group for their 2011 return. All naming rights, trademarks, logos and likeness of the San Jose SaberCats are now owned by the new reemergence of the Arena Football League (AFL); formerly the Arena Football 1 (AF1)., making their 2011 return possible. The SaberCats began play in 1995. The team played at the HP Pavilion at San Jose in San Jose, California, which is also home to the San Jose Sharks franchise of the National Hockey League. The SaberCats competed in the Western Division of the American Conference. The SaberCats are one of Arena's premier organizations, having never drawn below 10,000 fans at any of their home games. The SaberCats were ArenaBowl champions in 2002, 2004, and 2007, beating the Arizona Rattlers for their first two titles and the Columbus Destroyers for the third. The San Jose SaberCats did play in a fourth ArenBowl, ArenaBowl XXII in New Orleans, LA. Unfortunately they fell short of their fourth title, due to some very obvious and questionable officiating. ArenaBowl XXII would be the last game played in the Arena Football League. On June 5, 2004, the SaberCats were fined $20,000 for violations during their Quarterfinal Round playoff game against the Tampa Bay Storm. They were first fined $10,000 for distrib...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=660967 ... Read more

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Chapters: Kurt Warner, Brent Musburger, Michael Irvin, Lynn Swann, Lee Corso, Shaun King, Mike Adamle, Pat Haden, Tommy Maddox, Mike Greenberg, Tom Hammond, Danny White, Mike Golic, Kirk Herbstreit, Mark Schlereth, Bill Weber, Marty Snider, Todd Christensen, Tony Hill, Tim Brant, List of Arenabowl Broadcasters, Holly Rowe, Merril Hoge, Eli Gold, Marcellus Wiley, Al Trautwig, Bob Papa, Jim Grabowski, Allen Bestwick, Bob Fitzgerald, Bob Wischusen, Gary Danielson, Glenn Parker, Roger Twibell, Rick Walker, Tom Mees, Steve Raible, Mark Jones, Fred Manfra, Trey Wingo, Ray Bentley, Charles Davis, Craig Bolerjack, Stan Verrett, Bob Rathbun, Ed Cunningham, Mike Pawlawski, Adrian Karsten, Lewis Johnson, Howard Balzer, Dave Pasch, Mike Gleason. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 225. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kurtis Eugene "Kurt" Warner (born June 22, 1971) is a former National Football League quarterback who played for the St. Louis Rams, New York Giants, and the Arizona Cardinals. He was originally signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 1994, after playing college football at Northern Iowa where he did not start until his senior year. Warner would go on to be considered the best undrafted player of all time following a 12-year career regarded as one of the greatest stories in NFL history. Warner first attained stardom during his highly successful stint with the St. Louis Rams from 19982003, where he won two NFL MVP awards in 1999 and 2001, as well as the Super Bowl MVP award in Super Bowl XXXIV. He also led the 2008 Arizona Cardinals to Super Bowl XLIII (the franchise's first-ever Super Bowl berth), and owns the three highest single-game passing yardage totals in Super Bowl history. Warner is ranked among the top QB's all-time in career passer rating, behind Stev...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=414302 ... Read more