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Some say that it's better to be lucky than good. On Saturday night in the 53th installment of the War on I-4, the Orlando Predators would tell you that luck is a byproduct of their hard work that they have put in all season long. Thanks to what Rob Keefe called the grace of God, the Preds used a late fumble recovery to take down the Tampa Bay Storm 56-52.
The historically dominant Orlando Predators found their way back on top last season, as they won their first division title since 2006 in a year where everything looked like it was going to go wrong.
Props to you, AFL schedule makers. Not only did you manage to have the Tampa Bay Storm play two games in a span of five days, with a flight to and from Philadelphia squeezed in there, but you also chose Friday the 13th to feature the 60th edition of the War on I-4. The undefeated Orlando Predators hosting the 30-point underdog, and winless Storm. What could possibly go wrong?
Over the course of the first several years of his AFL career, Tommy Grady developed a few stigmas. He's really tall. He throws a ton of touchdowns. And he never wins the big game. But now that he has gotten the Jacksonville Sharks to the ArenaBowl behind two incredibly good efforts on his part, he can evolve into the really tall quarterback who throws a lot of touchdowns and has won the big one.