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More so than even the NFL, the Arena Football League is all about the quarterback. Saturday night two of the league's greatest gunslingers will dual in south central Texas when the San Antonio Talons (6-3) host the San Jose SaberCats (7-2).

STOCKTON - The San Jose SaberCats have defeated the Jacksonville Sharks 68-47 to capture their fourth championship in franchise history. The crack staff at ArenaFan.com has come up with all of the records and factoids from the game.

ORLANDO - The Orlando Predators won their Super Bowl on Saturday night. In spite of the fact that they were undefeated through five games and playing in their own gym, they were double-digit underdogs to the Arizona Rattlers. They fell behind by a stop early and committed nine penalties in the first 20 minutes of the game, and this writer surely wasn't the only one who had to think that the romp was on.

When the Pittsburgh Power beat the Orlando Predators at the Amway Center in the first game of the 2012 Arena Football League season, several players, including QB Kyle Rowley were forced to bus back to the Steel City. The Predators should be forced to walk back to Orlando after coughing up a 31-point lead and losing at Consol Energy Arena 57-54 on Saturday night in overtime.

TAMPA -- Saturday night in Tampa will belong to TT Toliver, as he became the all-time leader in receiving yards in Arena Football League history. On most other nights though, what Tiger Jones accomplished would set him apart from the rest of the pack. With his fourth reception on Saturday night, the Jacksonville Sharks man went past Chris Jackson for the fourth most receptions in AFL history.

PHILADELPHIA - In the first of two matchups versus one of the three expansion franchises the league has added in the past two seasons, the Philadelphia Soul beat the Portland Thunder 52-35. The Soul will take on the Las Vegas Outlaws on May 30th in Atlantic City for the Boardwalk Bowl, and will have to wait until 2016 to play the Los Angeles KISS.

Apparently, math was the worst subject in school for members of the Arena Football League's Silver Anniversary Committee (they didn't do much better in history either). As evident in the committee's lists of the top 25 quarterbacks and players all-time, a refresher in math and a touch-up class in history are in great need. The teacher is in.

Monday, May 7th, 2012 marks the continuation of another long era for the Arena Football League. Commissioner Jerry B. Kurz has had his contract extended for five years, making him the commissioner of the AFL through 2017.

PHILADELPHIA- The Philadelphia Soul were firing on all cylinders tonight, defeating the Cleveland Gladiators 47-35. The Soul defense played their best game of the season, picking off Shane Austin four times, and the defensive backs contained the Gladiators wide receivers very well.

The way Sherdrick Bonner left the Arizona Rattlers near the end of the 2007 season did not sit well with many fans. It did not seem quite right that the rock of the franchise, the team leader who had spent nearly 15 years in the desert, would not end his storied career in black, copper and teal.