AFL: Arena League Returns to TV Friday Night!!!

Gotta love the AFL.

• Indoor Football returns to us, back on TV starting Friday night on NFL Network…
• After a year absence from us, Arena Football comes back to us in a package a little more close to what we’re used to…
• Hello Iowa Barnstormers!!!

by Mike Zimmer, Former Columbus Destroyers Season Ticket Holder

Football in the spring returns to us in the form perhaps it was best suited for this time of year: in doors!  Yep, the AFL is back and indoor football returns to us this week, on TV at NFL Network in fact. http://www.arenafootball.com/

The NFL’s network will televise games nationally on Friday’s this spring and summer for our football fix.  This Friday they’ll feature the Chicago Rush at the Iowa Barnstormers.

While the league is missing some key teams (what? no San Jose???) and there won’t be an incarnation of the Columbus Destroyers this season, I’m still excited to see the league back at it.  Some things shouldn’t fade away and the AFL was one of those niche sports I always enjoyed watching.  More, the league has gone back to it’s roots a bit, including some seriously smaller markets than the over-inflated and bloated slate like they had in it’s last incarnation.  Places like Des Moines, Iowa and Bossier City, Louisiana will be in the big time this year vs. Philly and San Jose.  More, there won’t be that woman, Jon Fucking Bon Jovi there to fuck it up.

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