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On August 21, 1999, history was made as the Albany Firebirds defeated the Orlando Predators in ArenaBowl XIII in front of 13,652 at the Pepsi Arena. I remember because I was one of those fans in attendance.

For only the 2nd time since 2006, the Arena Football League held an expansion draft. The 2014 draft was necessitated by the addition of the Las Vegas Outlaws franchises.

Frustrating is a word that describes the feeling of losing yet another game in the final seconds. Aggravating is knowing that your mistakes cost you the win.

The Battle Wings take flight on a long trip to Salt Lake City. Its a winnable game for the win-less Blaze, but only if they play a perfect game on all sides of the ball. The Wings are a great team that has already won games against the Alabama Vipers (who have defeated the Blaze in Utah already this year) and the also win-less Orlando Predators.

Welcome to our look at AFL alumni in the AAF. Week 6 just finished up, and we have our recap here.

The Washington Valor (2-10) had a visit from Santa on Saturday night against the Baltimore Brigade (4-8) inside of Verizon Center in front of 10,266 fans. Their 34-30 win helped to keep their playoff wishes alive, win two more and the Valor are in, truly Christmas in July.

What have you done lately? Football is a team sport, a game of power, expertise, finesse and man on man talent that determines victory or loss. And it always comes down to players making plays.

Ten years ago, in 2004, I wrote an article on ArenaFan called

Betting lines are posted for the ArenaBowl, and as of the publishing of this article on Wednesday morning, the San Jose SaberCats are favored by 11.5 points over the Jacksonville Sharks. The total for the game is set at 103.5.

What a wild week of Arena Football action we had in Week 7! Two major underdogs (Orlando and Iowa) found ways to win their games and win them outright by huge numbers, while several teams were left trying to pick up the pieces from a disappointing and unexpected effort.