Sunday, March 02, 2008

Arena Football

I was fortunate enough to attend the season opening game of the Utah Blaze. The picture in this post along with my entrance ticket, not to mention great company were provided my good friends TJ & Kim.

This picture shows almost the entire field and the game between downs. Not pictured are the eccentric fans who came in attire reserved for true fans. Which includes their favorite players jersey, black and orange face paint, and orange hair dye. Kim was in charge of the camera so also not pictured are the Harley Davidson Blaze Dancers. I tip my hat to any person who chooses to who has that level of dedication to any sports team. The Blaze ended up loosing the game by one point and I think I saw I like face paint start to run on a couple of fanatic faces. I dared not point it out because any one of the aforementioned could have killed me without much effort.
There are several people who have watched more football than I but since your reading my blog I'm going to give you my opinion of Arena football. I'm not going to lie I like to watch football, it entertains me. The prospect of a group of guys banding together in the quest of greatness. In the NFL it takes 11 people simultaneously working together to make a big play, whether the play be on offense or defense. In the AFL there are several big offensive plays but defensive plays seem to be few and far between.

In Arena football there are so many touchdowns that the excitement spawned by a touchdown quickly looses its flavor. If a team doesn't score at least 50 points they are pretty much guaranteed to loose.

To me Arena football is like real footballs little brother. The players are smaller and have changed a few of the rules. From a distance you may think the only difference is one is played outside while the other is played inside. However, you will quickly realize that even though the basic concepts are the same there are several noticeable differences.

In the future I may watch more Arena football, but I don't ever think it will entertain me to the same extent as real football.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey!! Arena football huh? I think i want to see it? looks like something Donnovan would prob like. I'll have to get the details from u. Miss ya, talk to you later!

Johnny Metropolis said...

Interesting that you would use the analogy that Arena Football is Footballs little brother... seeing as you are a little brother yourself... more specifically my little brother... I never knew you thought I was so cool.

Anonymous said...

pre.script. i hate this blog epidemic! and i'm only telling you because you are the first person i knew to ever have one!
don't worry i will have one soon dispite my rage!;) anyway remember when you told me that you wanted any excuse to come back to logan? well my sweet sweet roommate would still love to go out with you!! i'll double with one of your friends if you feel necessary?! let me know probably after spring break though!

Anonymous said...

dude u don't have 1 pic of yourself on your blog!!!!!!! come on!!!!!