The last time that an Arena Football League team from San Antonio came to Orlando, the San Antonio Force became a dubious piece of league history, getting shut out by the Orlando Predators. It was, and remains nearly two decades later, the only shutout in the history of the league.
Every single week, the story really is exactly the same for the 2012 Orlando Predators. Quite honestly, it's getting boring to write on. In this version of the same old, same old, the Preds came out of the blocks with advantages of 14-3 and 21-10, only to end up falling apart and losing to the Jacksonville Sharks 55-37.
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To say that the Jacksonville Sharks have had their way with the rest of the Southern Division is a bit of an understatement. In their brief history, they have won a whopping 36 regular season games and three straight division titles, and they are now the first team in the history of the league to win three division crowns in a row to begin a franchise. Jacksonville went 12-2 in its first two regular seasons in the Southern Division, and it had a 2-1 mark against those foes in the playoffs as well. QB Aaron Garcia led the way in all of those victories though, and for the first time ever, the Sharks will have to go into battle in a playoff tilt with someone aside from #8 calling the shots. Jacksonville will hope to do some more damage to the South on Saturday night when it hosts the Georgia Force in the American Conference Semifinals.
A bizarre night in the Arena Football League got a heck of a lot more bizarre in the second quarter of the clash between the Pittsburgh Power and the Orlando Predators. Prior to the start of the first game of the 25th season, the Predators put their entire team on recallable assignment, while the Power released their entire roster.