PastorMikH
06-24-2005, 11:44 PM
Just got back from my first Arena Ball game. (Well, Arena Football2). The OK City Yard Dawgz and the Memphis Explorers. Pretty interesting game. Not to sure about the coach with a minute to go on the clock, but they won the game anyway. Dawgz are up by 3 (50-47) with a minute to go and have the ball thanks to an INT in the endzone. On the second carry they fumble and the explorers get the ball on the 5. They try to run the ball and get stuffed on the 2. Dawgz had 3 timouts and 50 seconds on the clock - plenty of time to get another TD. But they don't call the timeout. They let the clock run. The explorers run the ball a second time and get stopped just inside the 1. Time runs out while they are trying to get up.
Anyhow, another observation I made, It's alright for the Explorers WR to be 2, 3, and sometimes 4 yards beyond the LOS before the ball is snapped - happened all night - but the same was not alright for the Dawgz to do. On one particular play, the ball was on the 20 yard line - not to hard to see when the player crosses the big white line. Anyhow, he's at the 17 and bumps the DB as the ball is snapped and they called offsides. I tell the guy I'm with that the finally called it on them. But NOOOOOO! They call offsides on the DB that is sitting on the 17 yardline - 3 yards off the LOS when the ball is snapped.
Another observation is that fans are TERRIBLE at kickin FGs. The halftime show had a punt/pass/kick contest. There were 7-8 people that got to try for a FG from the 5 yard line. NONE of them kicked the ball high enough to clear the upright - only one got it to the back of the endzone. I told the wife that I guarantee that I would have had it high enough, left, right, or center is an entirely different matter, but it would have been high enough.
All in all it was pretty interesting. The field looks a lot smaller in person that it does on TV.
Anyhow, another observation I made, It's alright for the Explorers WR to be 2, 3, and sometimes 4 yards beyond the LOS before the ball is snapped - happened all night - but the same was not alright for the Dawgz to do. On one particular play, the ball was on the 20 yard line - not to hard to see when the player crosses the big white line. Anyhow, he's at the 17 and bumps the DB as the ball is snapped and they called offsides. I tell the guy I'm with that the finally called it on them. But NOOOOOO! They call offsides on the DB that is sitting on the 17 yardline - 3 yards off the LOS when the ball is snapped.
Another observation is that fans are TERRIBLE at kickin FGs. The halftime show had a punt/pass/kick contest. There were 7-8 people that got to try for a FG from the 5 yard line. NONE of them kicked the ball high enough to clear the upright - only one got it to the back of the endzone. I told the wife that I guarantee that I would have had it high enough, left, right, or center is an entirely different matter, but it would have been high enough.
All in all it was pretty interesting. The field looks a lot smaller in person that it does on TV.