Adam J Locascio
Thursday March 3, 2011
With all the damage and destruction surrounding the Tampa Bay Storm this off-season, it’s a miracle that they haven’t changed the name of the franchise to “Katrina.”
The Storm’s front office has been mired in controversy since last season’s ArenaBowl loss to the Spokane Shock. The team has changed owners, changed head coaches and general managers, endured law suits and failed to re-sign their top-flight quarterback.
And how was YOUR vacation?
Present turmoil aside, the most shocking event has to be the
firing resignation of Storm head coach Tim Marcum due to the discovery of racist jokes and pornographic materials in his work-related e-mail. Shortly after the discovery of said material, it was uncovered that these various items were sent and received by Assistant Coach Dave Ewart… who just so happened to be Marcum’s successor.
· 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,