B-Rich Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 According to this article from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the New Orleans Voodoo are shutting down operations. quote:"In a letter to Arena Football League interim commissioner Ed Policy, New Orleans Voodoo owner Tom Benson said the Voodoo is folding and severing its five-year stay in the Crescent City and its affiliation with the league, VooDoo team spokesman Greg Bensel said. Bensel also stated that Benson, who is attending NFL meetings in Florida this week, stressed that this is not an indictment on this marketplace. That he believes in New Orleans, but knows this is the right decision based on circumstances currently affecting the league and the team."My response: Yawn. Arena football is a joke. It is what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-kj Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 There goes one of the best team identities in all of sports. Damn. Buy some t-shirts and stuff at KJ Shop! KJ Branded | Behance portfolio POTD 2013-08-22 On 7/14/2012 at 2:20 AM, tajmccall said: When it comes to style, ya'll really should listen to Kev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 *inches closer to AFL panic button*Looks like they had the single-entity vote. I wonder how it went. 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...
smzimbabwe Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 I think they tried to get too big too fast and wound up ruining what used to be a good thing. I haven't watched AFL in two or three years now, and I was there at the beginning. Still have my Denver Dynamite pennant up here in my office and the first Arena Bowl still on tape...They need to go back to what the league used to be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sodboy13 Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 *inches closer to AFL panic button*You ain't kidding. Pre-Katrina, the Voodoo were an unqualified success, and I thought they were still holding their own when they came back, too. Plus there's the whole deal of making New Orleans the home of the Arenabowl. Ouch.So that puts 'em down to 16 teams. How many of those are on shaky ground? I'll offer up Kansas City and Utah for openers. On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said: For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA. PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMU Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 New Orleans just wasn't a big enough market to support a more fringe sport like this. The question now is if they hammer home the proposed Boston/DC expansion like had been rumored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 *inches closer to AFL panic button*You ain't kidding. Pre-Katrina, the Voodoo were an unqualified success, and I thought they were still holding their own when they came back, too. Plus there's the whole deal of making New Orleans the home of the Arenabowl. Ouch.So that puts 'em down to 16 teams. How many of those are on shaky ground? I'll offer up Kansas City and Utah for openers.Actually, I'd offer up some of the more stable ones. The Voodoo still were one of the better run and supported franchise. I believe the logic behind the fold is "why should we divert our revenue to support our weaker sisters." From checking around on the AFL boards, it sounds like a couple more teams may be bailing shortly. Right now its a game of "check the free agent lists and see whose entire roster is gone". Orlando, as an example, seems to fall into this category.Oh.....and expansion is so off the table at the moment. Not that moving into DC or Boston would be wise anyway. 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...
Sodboy13 Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Actually, I'd offer up some of the more stable ones. The Voodoo still were one of the better run and supported franchise. I believe the logic behind the fold is "why should we divert our revenue to support our weaker sisters." From checking around on the AFL boards, it sounds like a couple more teams may be bailing shortly. Right now its a game of "check the free agent lists and see whose entire roster is gone". Orlando, as an example, seems to fall into this category.Oh.....and expansion is so off the table at the moment. Not that moving into DC or Boston would be wise anyway.Jesus. If the Preds go, they might as well call it a day and close down the whole damn thing. And any team not wise enough to follow Orlando's lead could continue on their fool's errand in af2. On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said: For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA. PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PittsburghSucks Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 I just loved this teams name & logo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucsBoy02 Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 I just loved this teams name & logo.Same here, I loved how the name totally fit New Orleans, and the use of red a purple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkJourney Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 This league is being ran into the ground by a bunch of schmucks. Shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJ Sands Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Actually, I'd offer up some of the more stable ones. The Voodoo still were one of the better run and supported franchise. I believe the logic behind the fold is "why should we divert our revenue to support our weaker sisters." From checking around on the AFL boards, it sounds like a couple more teams may be bailing shortly. Right now its a game of "check the free agent lists and see whose entire roster is gone". Orlando, as an example, seems to fall into this category.Oh.....and expansion is so off the table at the moment. Not that moving into DC or Boston would be wise anyway.Jesus. If the Preds go, they might as well call it a day and close down the whole damn thing. And any team not wise enough to follow Orlando's lead could continue on their fool's errand in af2.How could the AFL exist without the Preds? For the AFL, that would be the equivalent of the NFL losing the Bears or the Packers. I still think the beginning of the end was when the NFL declined its 50-percent option to buy the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSky Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Maybe they'll pull a Jazz...move to somewhere like Boise but keep the nickname. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illwauk Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 The AFL did itself in when it began fans in the cities that had been loyal to the league during its infancy in favor of larger markets with no interest in supporting what is still seen (despite what the diehards think) as a minor league.I was a huge Milwaukee Mustangs fan back in the day, but now I doubt I'd get too excited if they were to come back. I'm damn sure not supporting the af2 team that's jumpin' off next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAD! Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Maybe they'll pull a Jazz...move to somewhere like Boise but keep the nickname. How about they move to Vancouver and revive the RHI name? I saw, I came, I left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sodboy13 Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 The AFL did itself in when it began fans in the cities that had been loyal to the league during its infancy in favor of larger markets with no interest in supporting what is still seen (despite what the diehards think) as a minor league.I was a huge Milwaukee Mustangs fan back in the day, but now I doubt I'd get too excited if they were to come back. I'm damn sure not supporting the af2 team that's jumpin' off next year.Agreed. I think the beginning of that trend can be traced to 2001, when Iowa packed up and left for Long Island. Even though they left market number 1-hundred-something for market 1, you'd be hard pressed to convince me the team has more brand recognition and support now than it did 8 years ago in Des Moines. And letting the Firebirds wither and die in Indy because they didn't want to expose how bloated the expansion fee had become was another boneheaded move.As for Milwaukee, I think that was a bit of a different case. Didn't the ownership (the V-something Brothers) basically burn every bridge they had in town, to the point where the Bradley Center kicked them out for "renovations" that never took place? On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said: For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA. PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sec19Row53 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 The AFL did itself in when it began fans in the cities that had been loyal to the league during its infancy in favor of larger markets with no interest in supporting what is still seen (despite what the diehards think) as a minor league.I was a huge Milwaukee Mustangs fan back in the day, but now I doubt I'd get too excited if they were to come back. I'm damn sure not supporting the af2 team that's jumpin' off next year.Agreed. I think the beginning of that trend can be traced to 2001, when Iowa packed up and left for Long Island. Even though they left market number 1-hundred-something for market 1, you'd be hard pressed to convince me the team has more brand recognition and support now than it did 8 years ago in Des Moines. And letting the Firebirds wither and die in Indy because they didn't want to expose how bloated the expansion fee had become was another boneheaded move.As for Milwaukee, I think that was a bit of a different case. Didn't the ownership (the V-something Brothers) basically burn every bridge they had in town, to the point where the Bradley Center kicked them out for "renovations" that never took place?Valozzis, yes. A nephew of the Valozzis (Drew Valozzi) is one of the owners of the Milwaukee Iron. As a Blizzard season ticket holder, I'll definintely go to the BC when the BLizzard come to town.I'm thinking if the VooDoo folded, that means the single entity vote passed. Weren't the NFL owners the ones who opposed single entity? Thus if it passed, NFL owners would be more likely to bail on the league. It's where I sit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BB61 Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I'm thinking if the VooDoo folded, that means the single entity vote passed. Weren't the NFL owners the ones who opposed single entity? Thus if it passed, NFL owners would be more likely to bail on the league.The only ones I can think of are Dallas and Colorado... I'm sure there's one-two more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I'm thinking if the VooDoo folded, that means the single entity vote passed. Weren't the NFL owners the ones who opposed single entity? Thus if it passed, NFL owners would be more likely to bail on the league.The only ones I can think of are Dallas and Colorado... I'm sure there's one-two more...Add the Georgia Force(Blank is the owner of the Falcons) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez Street Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Well the Brigade appear to be safe. they just hired a new offensive cooridnator.The Birgade messageboard seems to be a-buzz about the potential talent we can pick up due to the folding of the voodoo and any other team that might die.Sad, but when you suck, you'll do about anything to get better. @DavidStreeter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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