The 50-yard indoor bore: AJ4A goes to an AFL game

Like every other sports fan out there, I’m just beginning to negotiate the slow journey of the sports “dead zone”. No football until summer’s almost over and all that’s going on right now is mid-season NBA and NHL. For some that’s enough to get by on until pitchers and catchers report, but not if you’re from the SF Bay Area like I am. See, my NBA team growing up was the Warriors. There was run TMC for a while there but for the most part, nothing doing. And the NHL didn’t come to town until eighth grade when the Sharks showed up. College basketball? I went to UCLA. So let me say again: I’m basically SOL until the end of March when college ball finally heats up and gambling enters into the equation. The summer Olympics may be able to bridge the gap for a couple of weeks, but seeing as how both our soccer and baseball teams failed to even qualify for the games this year, I’m not counting on it.

So what the hell am I supposed to do? Read? Of course not. Enter one of my favorite yearly traditions: the two weeks in February where I try to talk myself into getting on board with the Arena Football League. Here's last year’s entry from the day I attended Arena’s inaugural game on NBC.