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Last Sunday thanks to a generous fellow I obtained a free ticket to go see an AFL game. The Portland Thunder vs the Arizona Rattlers at the Moda center in PDX. It was my first ever Arena Football game. I\u2019d never watched it (outside the occasional highlight) so I didn\u2019t know what to expect at all. What I got was what I would describe as Football lite. Actually no, it wasn\u2019t football lite, football lite is preseason football.<\/p>\n
Arena Football is Football Lite lime. Lite beer is already bland, watered down and generally disappointing but no one is drinking it for the taste. You know it\u2019s going to taste like crap. You drink it for the slight buzz to feel slightly better about yourself. Now we have Football lite lime. It\u2019s the same crap, you know it\u2019s going to taste like crap, but you think to yourself\u2026well, maybe it\u2019ll provide a slightly different type of experience. That lime might turn crappy piss football into somewhat tasty crappy piss football. So you try it. And it tastes basically exactly the same. That\u2019s Arena Football.<\/p>\n
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Despite the weird goalposts, the 7 on 7, and everything else, it really just does feel like generic minor league football. It\u2019s not a high enough level of play to enthrall you like the NFL, but it\u2019s not quite wacky enough like Canadian Football to differentiate itself either. It more or less just felt like watching an NFL team do a full contact practice. I would have personally preferred more wackiness. I saw an interception off the bouncy screens, followed by a botched snap on a kick, and I got excited. This was going to be great. Then it settled into basic football and I spent most of the game mocking it along with the people I was with. The players are competent enough to get things done, but not quite exceptional to really impress you. It\u2019s just alright. It was a good way to fill 3 hours, in many ways it was still football and fun to see football again, but it\u2019s not going to leave a lasting impact. I was more emotionally invested in trying to get a T-shirt launched towards me from the cheerleaders than watching the game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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