Showing posts with label Minor League Arena Football Controversy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minor League Arena Football Controversy. Show all posts

Friday, June 19, 2009

UFL Draft?



Something called the UFL held it's draft last night. I guess it's a modern-day USFL, only has no intention of trying to someday overtake the NFL. Anyway, here's a few names of crappy NFLers, former busts/druggies, and guys would are not even training camp fodder that stood out from the draft:

Wendall Bryant, Brooks Bollinger (Top 5 pick!), LaBrandon Toefield, Mike Doss, Chris Perry, and Marviel Underwood. Classic names, I know.

Actually, they have big name coaches. MUCH bigger names than you would expect: Jim Fassil, Ted Cottrell, Denny "Crown 'em" Green, and Jim Haslett.

Milwaukee is listed as a potential future franchise location. I'd rather watch this than the indoor Bonecrushers.

OK, that was way too much talk about the UFL.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

I hope Burger King drive-thru was prepared...


...because Gilbert Brown will be on his way there later on today.

Anybody hear anything about this? The entire coaching staff (Gilbert Brown is the head coach) & general manager (essentially all those involved in football operations) of the expansion indoor football team Milwaukee Bonecrushers resigned yesterday.

Gilbert had no comment. Damn!

I find this mildly interesting. It is a semi-pro league...players & coaches do get paid. Think of it as the minor leagues of Arena football. So 3 games into their first season (in which the team goes 0-3), the entire coaching staff just says K bye? What the hell happened?

Unfortunately, it's tough to draw any conclusions from the articles. The Bonecrusher's ownership did release a statement on their website though if anybody is interested in reading it.
The statement says they fired everybody. Hmmmmmmmmmm...somebody ain't telling the truth!

Milwaukee has a decent record supporting indoor teams. The Milwaukee Mustangs of the Arena league actually folded because the AFL was scared there wasn't a suitable Arena (or something like that).

On the surface, this team seemed like a slam dunk idea. Cool name, Gilbert Effing Brown as the head coach, the city already proved they could support a team through attendance, and they had a 3-year deal with US Cellular Arena.

My gut feeling which I have no supporting evidence for: the ownership was a bunch of A-holes that the coaches didn't like. When it comes to loyalty, I choose the Gravedigger