The AFL has officially canceled the 2009 season.Here's the story buried on ESPN's website.
I understand that the AFL is secondary to the NFL but there's still a fan following and it's been around 22 seasons, the longest tenured football league besides the NFL. It's a different but still a pretty interesting product out on the field and the fact that their season has just been canceled is troubling.
The worst part, nobody is making a big deal about it. This has been the biggest underreported story of the year. It's like the league and its owners don't want anyone to know that they're canceling the season.
ESPN has a minor, nonmanagement financial interest in the AFL.
Oh... well that makes sense. Way to be transparent ESPN! I'm glad you put that in the article that was burried in your headlines section. By the way, I'm watching you're channel right now and they're showing Bucs-Falcons highlights. Not a sniff of AFL news. Hmmmmm....
By the way if you're worried about the af2 Spokane Shock, the league will be running since it's seperate from the AFL. While I don't think a whole lot of the upper league players will try and play for af2 teams, I do see a lot of players from last season returning.
Which is actually a good thing in the short term but it will be interesting to see what happens in the long term.
This is really a sad situation. I played in the Arena Football League and was fortunate enough to have 1 completion! Wah hoo!
ReplyDeleteThe AF2 is the league that will continue to take off. It's such cheap labor.
Sad to see it go. I loved Arenafootball.