It took 25 seasons, but this is the first time in AFL history that the league's two most storied franchises are not in the playoffs in the same season.
Baseball purists say that you see something odd in their sport every single day. Maybe we should start saying the same thing about the Arena Football League. A night after watching the Orlando Predators get shut out in the second half for the first time in a decade and a half, the Tampa Bay Storm and Jacksonville Sharks put on a show at the Tampa Bay Times Forum.
Back in the day of the AFL, there were four games (and often as many as six) that you never wanted to miss. You knew when the Tampa Bay Storm played the Orlando Predators that the game was going to be bloody and that both squads were going to give it their all to beat the snot out of the other. You also knew that when the Arizona Rattlers played the San Jose SaberCats that there would be fireworks.
ORLANDO There are four teams that are going to be playing on Sunday, and all four of them want to reach the ArenaBowl more than anything else. However, if there is one player that has more on the line than any other, it is Bernard Morris. Morris is back at the penultimate game leading into the ArenaBowl for the third straight season, but this time, he is going to be leading the Orlando Predators into battle against the Cleveland Gladiators.