For Your Information: Timely News, Notes And Tidbits About The Arena Football League
February 25, 2005 - Arena Football League (1987-2008) (AFL I) News Release
- Graziani Is "Most-Clicked" Player: Philadelphia Soul quarterback TONY GRAZIANI was the most-clicked player on arenafootball.com from January 15-February 19. Graziani registered 5,209 clicks, while Grand Rapids Rampage quarterback and former Heisman Trophy runner-up MICHAEL BISHOP was second with 3,327 clicks. All players in the top five were quarterbacks:
Tony Graziani, Philadelphia Soul 5,209
Michael Bishop, Grand Rapids Rampage 3,327
Joe Hamilton, Orlando Predators 2,698
Andy Kelly, New Orleans VooDoo 2,347
Aaron Garcia, New York Dragons 2,260
- ESPNews Announces AFL's Players of the Week: In 2004, ESPNews officially announced all AFL year-end awards, including U.S. Army Ironman of the Year, ADT Defensive Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year, etc. This year, the network has added the AFL's weekly awards to its inventory. AFL fans can tune in every Tuesday at approximately 4 p.m. ET to learn which players have been named the AFL U.S. Army Ironman, Offensive and ADT Defensive Players of the Week. It's further evidence of the AFL's growing media coverage.
- AFL Receives "Giant" Interest: Two members of the New York Giants â Pro Bowl RB TIKI BARBER and backup QB JESSE PALMER â were talking Arena Football recently. On Saturday, February 19, "The Bachelor" Jesse Palmer was the color analyst on a Fox Sports Net-New York broadcast of the New York Dragons-Nashville Kats game.
On Sunday, February 20, Barber was a guest analyst on NBC's studio show and expressed an interest in AFL ownership: "It's something that I've been exploring because I know I'm not going to play in the NFL forever ... It's a family-oriented game, it's fun to watch, the fans are right on top of the action and the thing I love about it is there's passion ... It's an awesome opportunity for me if I get in at an early stage to see a league grow and develop."
Arena Football League (1987-2008) Stories from February 25, 2005
- MTV's âThe Real World Philadelphiaâ cast to attend Sunday's Soul game - Philadelphia Soul
- AFL week five injury report - AFL I
- Kats Shuffle Roster For Gladiators Game - Nashville Kats
- For Your Information: Timely News, Notes And Tidbits About The Arena Football League - AFL I
- Soul square off with rival Dallas - Philadelphia Soul
- Destroyers sign offensive specialist Randall Lane to active roster - Columbus Destroyers
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