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Tues, May 25 05 "Moose's Arena 2 report and scores!" Myk

Quad City is in a slump like never before. For the first time in their storied history, they are 3-4 and below .500. I guess I can't shmooze with Arena League founder Jim Foster in ex- CFL City, Shreveport, August 27th-28th @ ArenaCup VI?  Albany last week fired psycho Richard Davis, the worst  Coach in Af2 history and replaced him with recently fired Columbus Destroyers (Ar.FL) Offencive Coordinator [allegedly!]. This should be good for two more wins this season.

Scores from Week Eight:
Green Bay 56, Quad City 49
Amarillo 68, Central Valley 61
Memphis 73, Albany 55
Rio Grande Valley (TX) Wilkes-Barre / Scranton 49
Tulsa 61, Macon 39" Moose

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Tues, May 10 05 "Moose's Arena 2 report and scores!" Myk

Arenafootball2 Update

Week Six Scores:
Memphis 43, Oklahoma City 38
Amarillo 58, Quad City 48
Albany 52, Macon 37
Bakersfield 75, Shreveport 40
Manchester 46, Louisville 37
Central Valley (CA) 64, Tulsa 63
Green Bay 48, Arkansas 35|
South Georgia 69, Birmingham 49
Rio Grande Valley (TX) 51, San Diego 45

"It looks like Shawn Withy-Allen is out for the year in Af2 after Breaking his right (passing) arm in a game in Fayetteville, N.C. Hang in there, kanaka! Timmy Chang, who the CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos were interested in, has signed a one-year deal with the Arizona Cardinals. He should make their squad, despite the pre- Sense of e-xAr.FL’r Kurt Warner and hometowner Dave Navarre. ‘Lil Kev Feterik, ex-of the San Diego Riptide, is now QBing Central Valley (CA), and they won this weekend. He replaces

The aforementioned Withy. I’ve already gotten my plane tickets For ArenaCup VI in ex-CFL town Shreveport. Bad news for ex-USFL fans; former USFL / NFL/ CFL RB-WR, Gary Anderson, The only Coach the Twisters have had in their six year history, Has been fired by the team after the recent three-game losing streak. The team said they were tired of Anderson’s laid-back attitude (though The players loved it!) and also gone now is Shreveport-Bossier City’s former New Orleans and Portland Breaker RB, Marcus Dupree, as Gen. Man./Coach of the Battle Wings. They won Their first game last Monday but lost again Saturday night. Good luck in your next career moves, guys. Long live the USFL!

Week Seven Picks:
Bakersfield OVER Tulsa
Manchester OVER Albany
Arkansas OVER South
Shreveport OVER Florida
Green Bay OVER Louisville
Ohio Valley OVER Peoria
Omaha OVER Tennessee Valley
Memphis OVER (expansion) Amarillo, who is playing surprisingly well.
Quad City OVER Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
San Diego OVER Birmingham
Central Valley (CA) OVER Rio Grande Valley (TX)" Moose

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Tues, April 19 05 "Moose's Arena 2 scores!" Myk

Wed, April 13 05 "Moose's Arena 2 scores and Week 2 picks" Myk

Arenafootball2 Report; ex-CFL city Shreveport home of Arena Cup VI

Scores, Week Two:
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 64, Quad City 28
Tulsa 61, Shreveport (home of ArenaCup VI!)
San Diego (with 'lil Kev F-Troop on the bench) 58, Birmingham 57
Green Bay 49, Albany (Rich Davis strikes again!) 41
Macon 52, South Georgia 41
Florida 32, Manchester 26
Oklahoma City 53, Arkansas 42
Memphis 66, Amarillo 41
Peoria 31, Ohio Valley 20
Tennessee Valley 54, Louisville 51

Week Three Picks:
Birmingham OVER Macon
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton OVER Albany
Louisville OVER South Georgia
Arkansas OVER Memphis
San Diego OVER Bakersfield
Florida OVER Rio Grande Valley
Green Bay OVER Manchester
Quad City OVER Shreveport" Moose

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Tues, April 5 05 "Moose's Arena 2 scores and game balls! Week 2 picks" Myk

Thurs, Mar 3 05 "Moose's Arena footy 2 update and International Player Update" Myk Aussie

Fri, Feb 18 05 "Arena footy MYKwebTV! Moose's Arena footy 2 extensive previews as the 05 season starts soon!" Myk Aussie 

New Arena Footy MYKwebTV Feb 18, 05 "Talking Arena footy with Moose "Mr Arena footy" Salzer!"

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Arenafootball2 2005 Preview Sixth Season By: Moose Salzer

"Mutiny on the Bounty" would have been a good movie for the owners of the twenty remaining Af2 teams to watch at their fall Board of Policy Meetings. Five teams left the league outright to go to another League (the NIFL?!) and the Hawai'ian Islanders went out of business; they couldn't get enough corporate sponsorship, which is sad since there are no other Pro or Pro 'AAA' teams in the 50^th state. The Mexico / Texas Laredo Law have filed for 'one yr. dormancy', a frequent occurrence in this second tier Arena League.

The former Fresno Frenzy, Ricky Ray's old team did it after the '02 inaugural season, and returned last year as the Central Valley Coyotes. Owner Kiki DeAyala, USFL player, who is also part-owner of the Laredo Bucks minor League hockey team, hopes so. Laredo did OK in attendance it's first year but logistical problems and Arena dates killed them for the '05 season.  

Nov 11, 05 A note from Kiki DeAyala "I was drafted by both the USFL and the NFL. I chose to play in the USFL and earned All Pro Status both years for the Houston Gamblers. I then was signed by the Bengals ( Bengals originally drafted me) and played out my contract after the second season with Cincinnati. I went on strike with my teammates" Kiki DeAyala

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[New Indoor Footie News: the IFL, NIFL & NAIFL's are gone: the new conglomeration is now called the UIFL (United Indoor Football League). It kicks off March 5th and ends in July. It is made up of 13

teams, including one in Canada called the Rough Riders, city TBA. They have a website, too. I printed a schedule yesterday but forgot to bring it with my to do this report tonight. Mea Culpa. Several ex Af2 teams, including past Arena Cup contenders / winners: Peoria and Tennessee Valley are it. Predicted UIF Championship: between Tennessee Valley and Peoria, of course.]

In '06, rumour has it, the Af2 will become a true feeder League for the Ar.FL. Since NFL Europe is on last legs, this is a good move. The Af2 League held it's fourth straight Pacific Rim Training Camp, for the first time in Japan. Running it were: Af2 vet Coaches, Danton Barto (Memphis, a team who I have coverd a game of), Macon's Mike Hold, another former original Arena League player (and former fellow replacement NFL player from '87), and Chris Siegfried (South Georgia [Albany] Wildcats Coach. Note: the South Georgia Wildcats are the former Cape Fear Wildcats of FayetteNam, N.C.). The camp was held in Kawasaki, Japan. New Tulsa Coach Dave Alexander also attended.

The Af2 had over 100 players from Scotland, Germany, France, Japan, Australia and New Zealand attend. The new site is due to the cancellation of the Hawai'ian Islanders and since it was unable to be held in Australia this go-around. It also makes since, since one of the new partners with Af2 International is SES, Inc. of Japan in partnership with the highest outdoor American-style Football League in Nipon, the X-League (not to be confused with that 'one-hit' wonder / experiment of NBC several years ago, the XFL. There have been seven Japanese, two Aussie players in Af2 and the Ar.FL combined so far. And with the University of Hawai'i, since P Mat McBriar's career with the Warriors, have been heavily recruiting 'Down Under'. There were three NFL Aussies last year, if you include the Packers practice squad back-up P/K, Nathan Chapman and last spring, the Aussies' Af2 team scrimmaged the Macon (GA) Knights. This year the Japanese team will play a preseason with San Diego, Mar. 26th.

Predicted Order of Finish:

1)  Quad City Steamwheelers, sixth season. Coach: Rick Frazier, former Norfolk Nighthawks and Toronto Phantoms Coach. Key players, so far: K Steve Scaldaferi, OS/KR Travis Burns, QB Matt Pike. Jim Foster, the man who invented Arena Football and the owner of this team, the man who the Arena Football League trophy is named after, loaded up for bear this offseason bringing in veteran Arena League and Af2 Coach Frazier, who finished out last Ar.FL season as I.H.Coach of the 1-15 Grand Rapids Rampage, who cleaned house in August. Thus Frazier has brought with him some good ex-Ar.FL and Af2 players. More good ones, particularly Local products will be added as training camp for Af2 opens in one month. The Steamwheelers will be hard pressed not to make a run at Arena Cup VI, as Foster's team is usually one of the Arena 'AAA' League's best. They haven't won the Arena Cup since '01 and were suspended for the playoffs in '02. They won the first two Arena Cups. Predicted finish: Arena Cup VI Champions.

2)  San Diego Riptide, fifth season. Coach: Sean Ponder, Af2 vet Coach. Key players: WR/DB Makoa McElrath (how'd he get a Hawai'ian 1st name?), WR/LB Rico Curtis, QB Brian Baker, not Barker, the NFL punter, K Kimo Naehu, an ex-Hawai'i Islander, FB/LB Takamasa Suzuki, QB Anthony Buich, OL/DLm Rico Ochoa, the ex-Norfolk Nighthawk who played last year for the Wichita Stealth, now also defunct. A highlight for this team will be on Mar. 26th when the Japanese Samurais team comes to San Diego Arena to play a preseason game v. the Riptides. One Riptide who will be especially interested will be FB/LB Suzuki. The Riptide lost Coach Mouse Davis, who semiretired to Hawai'i to Coach on the staff of the Univ. of Hawai'i Warriors under his former star pupil, ex-NFL/CFL QB, now Coach June Jones. Also gone is longtime QB Kane Claunch, who split the job last year with Kevin (F-Troop) Feterik, the CFL vet reserve lefty (I covered one of their games in Hawai'i last June 19th). The Riptide, or eight of them to be exact, had an interesting off-season as they and eight members of the Los Angeles Avengers Ar.FL team competed in the ESPN original reality show, "I'd do anything." I predict with the able Coaching staff they've assembled and with San Diegan Jon Runyon, the Eagles OLm at the helm this team will compete for the Arena Cup with Quad City. The Ar.FL and Af2 have switched playoff formats as the Af2 now uses the NHL 'lowest remaining seed at highest remaining seed' style while the Arena League now uses American Conference winner v. National Conference winner, which I think is a good thing for both Leagues.

3)  Arkansas Twisters, sixth season. Coach: Gary Anderson, the former 12 year ex-USFL/NFL/CFL RB. Key players:

4)  Birmingham Steeldogs, sixth season. Coach: ex-Miami / Denver RB, NCAA Hall-of-Famer Bobby Humphrey. Key players:

5)  Florida Firecats, sixth season. Coach: Gary Compton. Key players: OS Maurice (Magic) Benton, DSs Desmond Washington, ex-Norfolk Nighthawk in his 6th Af2 season, WR/LB Travis Burnside, Arena Cup MVP last Aug. The Firecats finally won that elusive Arena Cup and their Media guy / Merchandise man tells me more Arena Cup merchandise will be available this spring. Gone are Coach John Fourcade, a longtime Ar.FL player / Af2 Coach, who'd lost several Arena Cups before winning last year.

6)  Green Bay Blizzard, fourth season. Coach: Bob Landsee, who replaces ex- Packer LB Brain Noble, who replaced liar Jose Jefferson, who claimed he played alongside Kurt Warner with the Iowa Barnstormers, and was caught and fired after the inaugural year of '02. Key players: FB/LB Bob Sagedahl. The Blizzard rallied from a 5-8 start to finish 8-8-0 but out of the playoffs by a whisker. It'll be tougher this time with QB Chris Griesen, the ex-NFL / NFL E pivot, who moved up to the Dallas Desperados of the Ar.FL.

7)  Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz, second year. Coach: Jeff Jarnigan, formerly of the Tulsa Talon '03 Arena Cup staff. Key players: QB Craig Strickland, who missed by a whisker of staying in the Ar.FL. Strickland is the trigger-man who guided the Talons to the Arena Cup win in '03. He is in his 6th Af2 season and has 14,415 yards passing in this League and 296 TDs, both alltime Af2 records. Other Key players include ex-Norfolk Nighthawk FB/LB James Richardson, the team's MVP as an expansion team from last year, . Coach Harry Reasons, the ex-N.Y. Giants LB, has kicked himself upstairs, and along with Horn Chen and Barry Switzer is part-owner.

8)  Tulsa Talons, sixth season. Coach: Dave Alexander. Key players: QB Ben Bowman, OL/DL Josh McMillian

9)  Amarillo Dusters, expansion team. Coaches of note; H.Coach: Don Carthel, an Arenaball rookie and Offencive Coordinator Rickey Foggie, a 16 year Pro QB of both the CFL [14,031 yards, 91 TDs, three Grey Cup appearances, 18,674 more Arena Football yards, 280 TDs] since 1988. Foggie finished the '04 season as the emergency starter for the late Carolina Cobras, now defunct. Foggie was hired on the fly because of his knowledge of the indoor game and Pro QBing experience. For an expansion team this one got off to a flying start by getting Carthel, a former college Ast. and Foggie in place quickly. The Arena League(s) always have done a great job of promoting from within. Key players at this point are: QBs: Steve Panella, Jarrod Rouanzoin, right off the college campus(es) & OL/DL Ray Taupule. This team has the make up to be another Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz, who went 10-6 in their first year and lost in the first round of the playoffs. This year only eight Af2 teams will make the playoffs, like 8 will make the Ar.FL playoffs. Amarillo, if they don't make it will be close. A team to watch.

10)  Shreveport Battle Wings, fifth season. Coach & G.M. Marcus Dupree, ex- USFL/NFL RB.

11)  Macon Knights, sixth season. Arena Cup runner-up two years ago. Coach: Longtime Arena vet player / Coach: Mike Hold. Key players: QB Will Burch, ex- Norfolk Nighthawk, ex-Quad City Steamwheeler, ex-Roanoke Steam, ex-Albany Conquest (ex-almost all teams in this League. He's played for nine in five Af2 seasons!), WR/DB Dezaray Delmore, DSs Jay Brooks, Nichloas Gage.

12)  Manchester Wolves, fourth season, formerly the New Haven Ninjas. Coach: Coaches of note: H.Coach Ben Bennett, played in four Leagues, 10-yr. Ar.FL vet pivot and former Florida Firecat Coach, Keith Easley, ex-Nighthawks Special Teams Coach, brother of Kenny Easley, Jr. Key players: Ex-Nighthawks FB/LB James Fuller, ex-Ferrum LB, QB Jake Eaton, who went a full camp with Edmonton (CFL) '04.

13)  Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (PA) Pioneers, fifth season. Coach: Les Moss, former longtime Orlando Predators Ast. Coach and son of Ar.FL Coaching legend & former CFL Coach Joe Moss. Key players:

14)  Bakersfield Blitz

15)  Louisville Fire

16)  Central Valley (CA) Coyotes

17)  Memphis (MS) Xplorers

18)  Rio Grande Valley (TX) Dorados

19)  South Georgia Wildcats

20)  Albany Conquest, fourth season. Coach: Rich Davis, Davis won the 1st NFL E Bowl as QB Coach with the London Monarchs back in June '91. I was in the 1st row @ Norfolk Scope the year Richmond made the Arena Cup and in a game v. the Nighthawks in which Davis was coaching. Albany has lost both their QBs - Ryan Vena to Columbus in the Ar.FL and ex-Scotland Claymore & B. C. Lion reserve Gus Ornstein to retirement. Davis has been out of Coaching since early in the '03 season. It looks to be a rocky roller coaster year for the once proud Albany Conquest franchise. Predicted finish, last.

Arena Cup VI Prediction: Quad City Steamwheelers 43, San Diego Riptide 36

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