If there’s one thing in this world that I love, it is obscure sports leagues that pop up from seemingly out of nowhere. And yesterday, the obscure sports gods put a gift in my lap in the announcement of a NEW minor league indoor soccer team and league coming to my hometown. Continue reading FOLKS GET EXCITED: There is a new minor league indoor soccer league coming next year
In indoor football, you see a bunch of weird plays that would not be possible in the outdoor game, simply because of the smaller field, and the closer proximity the players have to one another. Continue reading Indoor football team somehow gives up a safety while kicking off
Champions Indoor Football had one of these delightful stories shakeout this past weekend by a team that was in first place, and appeared to be set to lock up the overall top-seed for the upcoming CIF playoffs. Continue reading Minor league indoor football team in 1st place has two wins vacated, creates playoff chaos
One of the appeals of indoor football at any level is that the game is wide open, and is amazingly tilted towards helping the offense, even more than the NFL.
Sunday afternoon in Champions Indoor Football, two teams went all out, combining for 191 total points, more than 650 combined passing yards, and more than 800 yards of combined offense. Oh and a ton of kicks returned for touchdowns. Continue reading Minor league indoor football team scores 95 in regulation, loses anyway
For some reason, and I swear to you have I have no idea why, the local minor league indoor football team, the Amarillo Venom, have blocked me on Twitter. Continue reading “For some reason, the local minor league indoor football team blocked me on Twitter”
For as much as I post about and search for news about minor league indoor football, I have to confess that in my life I had been to one game in my entire, that was in 2015 when I went to a Billings Wolves (RIP) game.
I love it mainly because of all the crazy stories you hear about teams folding, or not paying their players, or having to play their entire first season on the road because they couldn’t reach an agreement with a local arena.
That changed last night as our (new) hometown team, the Amarillo Venom played host to the Dallas Marshals in their 2017 Champions Indoor Football home opener.
Continue reading “Minor league indoor football is both amazingly entertaining and sad”
Champions Indoor Football, the largest indoor football league in the country, has dropped two teams and will now play the 2017 season with 14 teams split up into two divisions.
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