OMMF Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7699594p-7610624c.htmlIn less than a year, Alaska will no longer be known as a state with one professional sports team.Move over, Alaska Aces; arena football is coming to Anchorage.A locally owned business, Alaska Professional Sports, announced plans Friday to organize a franchise in the Arena Football2 League (AF2) and bring it to Anchorage next spring. The team wants to play at Sullivan Arena, team officials said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 And they will be dead the year after that, from a combination of outrageous travel costs and the af2's horrible business plan and financial structure. But hey, anything to inject expansion fee funds into the AFL.For frack's sake, this league had a team in Hawaii fail! Do you think they'll ever learn? 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...
nwtrailtrekker Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 that sounds cool...i'll bet there'll be plenty of interest, football is already a moderately popular sport of there (alaska is full of seahawks fans)not to mention its indoors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smzimbabwe Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 not to mention its indoors.And that more than travel costs, is why I believe it will fail. I've lived in Alaska for 30 years and if this was during the winter, that would be great. But Alaska only gets so much summer and asking people to stay indoors to watch sports is a little much when this is their only chance to get out and go fishing, hiking, boating, whatever...But I do wish them luck and hope they do well. I don't think the travel factor will be as bad as everyone thinks it will, and definitely not as bad as Hawaii. But after a 6 month winter, asking a bunch of cabin-fever stricken Alaskans to come inside to watch sports may be too much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illinirox1 Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 "It's business first and football second," Weatherholt said. Uh oh. if it doesn't fail, it'll just suck. Put Your Hands up For Detroit (our lovely city) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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