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Monday July 19, 2010
Last year, when the Arena Football League was absent from the sports landscape, I used the opportunity to take in some arenafootball2 games with my sons. We traveled to Wisconsin from Michigan to see the Milwaukee Iron play twice and we even made a trip to Oklahoma to see the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz play a game. This year, the AFL is back and the Cleveland Gladiators were on my radar as a team to see in person.
When I looked at the 2010 AFL schedule and saw that Oklahoma City was going to be in Cleveland on Saturday night, July 17, I decided to make my first trip to Quicken Loans Arena for the game.
· Dallas, Cleveland and Utah each got their first victories of the season.
· Milwaukee lost its first game of the year.
· The top three scoring teams all lost this week (Milwaukee, Tulsa and Spokane).
· Just three passers went over 300 yards and 14 receivers had at least 100 yards receiving.
· Chicago is the last team without a loss (4-0).
· Orlando is the last team without a win (0-3).
· The league still hasn’t published a record book.
· The stats program still stinks and stats are still wrong.
IT’S NEVER BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
The AFL posted the stats from Friday night’s game between Bossier-Shreveport and Utah at about 1:00 PM Eastern on Monday. This is the third time in five weeks that the AFL has not published a boxscore or report for a game within 48 hours of the end of the game. Sure most of the boxscores are still wrong, but not having something up is unacceptable,