Hey... I'll Take It

Although it's not the Super Bowl, the Arena Bowl* is still a pretty cool achievement. What's even cooler is that I was at the game. But what's sad is that when offered to go to the game for free, I didn't even know it was a playoff game, let alone the Conference Championship. Oh well. The coolest thing about the Georgia Force is that it was recently bought by Arthur Blank, the owner of the Atlanta Falcons, so if anything, this will certainly feed into the excitement for the beginning of the NFL's football season in September.



Some general comments about my first ever Arena Football League Game:

1) I've never seen a sporting event that seemed so cracked out. The game included pretty hot cheerleaders, lots of smoke, lots of flashing lights, nothing but nonstop crunk music, and guys rappeling from the ceiling to toss out free t-shirts on their way down (double-u tee eff!). Combined with the fact that the action on the field is literally right in front of your face, it made for a damned cool event.

2) The final seconds of the game were pretty crazy. They included an Orlando touchdown which brought the Predators within 2 points, forcing a 2-point conversion attempt, and which also included 4 pass interference calls, 3 of which, consecutively, were during the 2-point conversion attempt. The final attempt featured another pass interference on the part of Georgia, but it wasn't called, and it certainly cost Orlando the game. Oh well, I'm not going to complain about that.

3) Arthur Blank could become Atlanta's next mayor if he wanted to.

Tomorrow, the Chicago Rush play the Colorado Crush (confusing matchup if you ask me), and the winner will play Georgia in the Arena Bowl in Las Vegas. I'm personally hoping for a Chicago win because I know a lot of people from Chicago that I certainly would like to gloat to.

*The Atlanta Journal-Constitution requires free registration.