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Before we begin this diatribe, we’d like you to answer the questions below:
1. Name 3 arena football teams.

2. Who won last year’s Arena Football Championship title?

3. What is that championship game called?

4. Who has the best record in Arena Football right now?
(This is hard, huh? Okay, okay, here’s an easy one.)

5. Name 1 arena football team…just one. (Hint, New Orleans has one and its name rhymes with Yoohoo.)

Honestly, we could only answer two of those questions without turning to our trusty friend Wikipedia. If you did better than us, there’s a good chance you wet the bed until middle school. Point is, Arena Football just hasn’t seemed to really catch on. Oh sure, people go to the games, but those bed-wetters hardly scratch the surface of the frustrated, bored, and desperate football fans feigning for something to watch in this long drought between the Super Bowl and Preseason.

So why is Arena Football so often viewed as a sport not worth viewing at all? I mean it’s got all the elements of football: the ball, the field, the refs, the schweaty mens. But why doesn’t it grab us? Why do we run from it? Why do we find ourselves overcome with the urge to throw the remote at the TV?  Read more...