sc49erfan15 Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 TV coverage of ArenaBowl XXVIII is being delayed by North Dakota State vs. Montana... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 TV coverage of ArenaBowl XXVIII is being delayed by North Dakota State vs. Montana...Very rare occasions when ESPN leaves games early. Last week they did leave a LLWS consolation game for NYCFC/Galaxy.ArenaBowl will also have a lower rating too.Coach's wife needs suds tonight with hubby coaching from a suite.And Spokane has a press conference scheduled for Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMU Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 And of course let's not even pretend it's a championship game. Let's just throw the SaberCats crap on the back of the truck and take it to Stockton. No ArenaBowl logos at all.The fact that they're trying to pull the wool over our eyes by having SaberCats banners hanging from the ceiling is just plain sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc49erfan15 Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 ^without a doubt. Just found it interesting that I'm pretty sure they didn't even air the beginning of the ArenaBowl on another channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRicSlick Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 You guys missed the fact that ESPN is still using their old graphics package for the ArenaBowl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 You guys missed the fact that ESPN is still using their old graphics package for the ArenaBowl. As they should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRicSlick Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 It's sad when ESPN doesn't bother bringing out their fancy graphics for your championship game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 It's sad when ESPN doesn't bother bringing out their fancy graphics for your championship game.Well, it really isn't so sure that ESPN is paying the AFL, or if the AFL is paying them for the airtime.ESPN wouldn't move the game to Monday, per the contract and the broadcast crew is basically identical to the CBSSN people, so it is save for me to think that Arena Football is paying ESPN as Ari Wolfe is basically a freelance sports broadcaster.EDIT: The multiple Sabercats season ticket commercials are a dead giveaway that AFL is PAYING for the airtime and must sell the commercial time themselves.PBC Boxing does buy airtime on networks and contracts ESPN and FOX announcers for respective broadcasts, so the trophy presentation went to News as 10PM airtime was already sold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Spokane officially moves to the IFL.http://www.spokesman.com/shock/stories/2015/sep/01/its-official-adam-shackleford-will-coach-ifl-shock/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosrs1 Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Spokane officially moves to the IFL.http://www.spokesman.com/shock/stories/2015/sep/01/its-official-adam-shackleford-will-coach-ifl-shock/Won't be the last bad news this off season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkJourney Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 I'm waiting for the Stockton SaberCats to become a permanent thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosrs1 Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 I'm waiting for the Stockton SaberCats to become a permanent thing.Part of me thinks it's a possibility, part of me thinks that an arena management company (the Sharks owners) so wanting to fill dates that they'd move their AHL team to the same arena, wouldn't just throw the Sabercats to the curb unless they found something else to fill those dates. Of course that won't stop them from tossing the Cats to the curb when it suits them, like during the league championship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubsFanBudMan Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Trying to wrap my head around this column:The San Jose SaberCats "are definitively, without dispute, the greatest team this league has ever seen."http://www.arenafan.com/news/?page=origcol&writer=113&article=3972I mean, people dispute the 72-10 Bulls all the time... so an AFL team from the twilight in an era of unbalance and af2-level talent? I just don't know if "definitively" and "without dispute" are the right word choices here. Maybe Arenafan caught the ESPN vapors or something, because this seems like blind loyalty to the present. But they watched and I didn't.(And for the record I went to Arenafan to find out the score of the Arena Bowl. Sad I never remember to watch anymore. Still got hit with the one pop-up minimum, even in phone, so click with caution.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Trying to wrap my head around this column:The San Jose SaberCats "are definitively, without dispute, the greatest team this league has ever seen."http://www.arenafan.com/news/?page=origcol&writer=113&article=3972 I mean, people dispute the 72-10 Bulls all the time... so an AFL team from the twilight in an era of unbalance and af2-level talent? I just don't know if "definitively" and "without dispute" are the right word choices here. Maybe Arenafan caught the ESPN vapors or something, because this seems like blind loyalty to the present. But they watched and I didn't. (And for the record I went to Arenafan to find out the score of the Arena Bowl. Sad I never remember to watch anymore. Still got hit with the one pop-up minimum, even in phone, so click with caution.) Thinking we need to get arenafan bad comment aggregator going. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sec19Row53 Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Trying to wrap my head around this column:The San Jose SaberCats "are definitively, without dispute, the greatest team this league has ever seen."http://www.arenafan.com/news/?page=origcol&writer=113&article=3972I mean, people dispute the 72-10 Bulls all the time... so an AFL team from the twilight in an era of unbalance and af2-level talent? I just don't know if "definitively" and "without dispute" are the right word choices here. Maybe Arenafan caught the ESPN vapors or something, because this seems like blind loyalty to the present. But they watched and I didn't.(And for the record I went to Arenafan to find out the score of the Arena Bowl. Sad I never remember to watch anymore. Still got hit with the one pop-up minimum, even in phone, so click with caution.)Thanks for the popup reminder from Arenafan. I knew there was a reason I didn't go there anymore. Well, that and some douchenozzle who would post every little thing that came into his head once upon a time. The flamethrower never managed to take him out. It's where I sit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBGKon Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Im sorry, but the Storm still have 5 titles....San Jose is not hands down the best. At minimum theres an arguement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTknight Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Arizona had 5 also. Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubsFanBudMan Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I think the argument is the 20-1 San Jose team is the greatest of all-time, not the franchise.My thought is that the league in its current form is incapable of creating the AFL GOAT.In fact, my mind wanders to the af2's 19-0 Quad-City Steamwheelers of 2000 and how they would fare against the 2015 AFL champs. Not saying the Steamwheelers would win, but I'm curious if the talent level of this AFL is closer to the af2 of 15 years ago. Or worse.(And rams80, that's a column not a comment.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBGKon Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Arizona had 5 also.True, but 3 of them came since 2012. The 5 from the Storm were in the heyday of the AFL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Well, the 2015 Sabrecats do have the same thing going for them that the 2000 Steamwheelers did *wink wink*. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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