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1
Clint Stoerner says:
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
March 6th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
2
Alex says:
This is a real shame. So we will no longer be able to see marcus randall try to play QB again? I’m deeply saddened by this.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
3
Allahver Fist says:
At least Team Florida held up their end of the bargain with ticket sales and actual Florida players comprising much of their squad. I signed up with their mailing list eons ago, only to be ‘bigtimed’ by their ticket sales prioritized to boosters, students, that crazy black guy that runs in Gainesville, the Sheriff of Waldo, Colonel Rebel’s ghost, then me. Oh well, fuck it.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
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Ground0EastLansing says:
I knew as soon as the school newspaper ran an ad featuring Team Michigan “stars such as Kyle Rasmussen!”, I knew the league was doomed to failure. Well Drew Henson, looks like Single A Ball or the Arena League awaits.
However, I do remember Chuck Klosterman writing a good piece about the AAFL about a year ago for Page 2.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
5
Holly says:
WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE to get year-round football?
(Besides heightened interest and a lot of money.)
March 6th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
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Biggus Rickus says:
I don’t understand why the USFL worked pretty well but everytime someone has tried to put a league together since, it’s crumbled.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
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Picture Me Rollin says:
Not to be a kill joy, but I think part of the reason we like football soooo much is because we aren’t over saturated with it. Like basketball or baseball for example. Granted they are not as inherently as good a sport but it leaves you wanting more. And that’s a good thing.
Kind of like sexual tension in a sitcom. You want it to happen but the fact that it doesn’t keeps you wanting more and if it does happen you immediately lose interest.
Not saying Alabama and Tennessee in June wouldn’t have been great though.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
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Alex says:
Holly, Arena league is on right now, same time AAFL would have been. what i want is GOOD year round football. of course, the NFL and college seasons can’t exactly go year round, that’d be a bit much.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
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drogue says:
This thing had a shorter lifespan than the XFL.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
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Brandon Cox's Vagina says:
Good thing my XXXFL league is still kickin’.
only $19.95 a month for subscribers, but you must be 18 years old to enter.
March 6th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
11
NewAZTiger says:
Orson, boo on the text.
A much better intro would be “The AAFL has been chop-blocked into football history, lasting only as long as Terry Dean did against Auburn in 1994.”
March 6th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
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Doug says:
Shouldn’t we have known this wasn’t going to work, though? The whole “take a bunch of alumni from one school who couldn’t hack it in the NFL and put them all on the same team” idea was pioneered six years ago by Steve Spurrier when he became coach of the Redskins. And then, just as now, it was merely a massive shipment of FAIL.
March 6th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
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Troy says:
I was actually going to go to the game the weekend before exams. And since this is college, there would have been much drinking. So maybe this is a good thing for me…
March 6th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
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Tim says:
At least I don’t have to watch Cory Bailey get burned over the middle again.
March 6th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
15
dogterd says:
Does anybody but me think this is odd? It’s an eight hour drive from Auburn to Chapel Hill, both girls are from north Georgia and both murders are being called “random” hmmmmm….
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23491497
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23504235/
March 6th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
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Albino Tornado says:
Remember — the AAFL quit Eric Crouch, not vice versa.
March 6th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
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jebus says:
Who was the AAFL’s financial planner, MC Hammer*?
* yes, this joke is old, but still, dude was not good with money
March 6th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
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the croominator says:
Exactly “Picture Me Rollin”…having year-round football would be like having Christmas everyday. Only having it in the Fall makes it speeeeeeeeecial…
March 6th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
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spiderjesse says:
My friends an I were discussing the AAFL the other day, I thought it would really work. Can you imagine the mind-blowing QB battle for the Florida team. I would put my money on Brock Berlin, but Thad Busby and Chris Rix would make it interesting. Do you think Ingle Martin would be eligible? What about Dan Kendra playing the 2006 Tim Tebow role?
Mind-blowing stuff.
March 6th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
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Chg says:
I was all set to care the moment they added a South Carolina team. Should have put that Michigan franchise and maybe even Texas somewhere in the Southeast.
March 7th, 2008 at 12:40 am
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GloryGlory says:
Big Surprise, I looked at the ticket prices and the TN team was selling lower level seats on the sideline for 50 bucks a pop. I can’t beleive those morons thought anyone was going to pay that price for a minor league event. I wanted to go to game or two, but I was not going to pay over ten dollars or sit in the upper deck of Neyland. The league’s marketing was terrible as well. I still can’t figure out why they never released the uniforms. I was hoping Quincy Carter would get kicked out of another league though.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:11 am