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Advertising in the Arena Football League has never been easy, but for the Orlando Predators, the task got a heck of a lot harder on Thursday when the City of Orlando filed a lawsuit against the team for the use of Fairwinds Credit Union as a sponsor of the club.

After back-to-back bye weeks, I'm back with more breakdowns, more history and more AFL than anywhere else. Arizona won the West, Jacksonville won a record tying 12th straight, Tommy Grady tossed ten TDs again, Derrick Ross set the single-season rushing record (without apparently anyone knowing about it), Tampa Bay evened the War on I-4 and a few more thousand words to fill the void until Week 16 kicks off. Breaking it Down is back!

Although nobody knew exactly what head coach Lawrence Samuels would get out of his team in the first couple weeks of a new season, the results are just what everyone hoped for. The Tampa Bay Storm, now 2-0 for the first time since 2008, used an impressive defensive effort on Friday night to shock the Talons 48-45 in the closing seconds.

The San Jose SaberCats are finishing up a very tough and competitive training camp as they approach final cuts and week one of the 2013 Arena Football season.

The 2013 Chicago Rush have been through things this season that no team should be stuck going through. They have had three different owners, one of which was essentially run out of the league, one of which is a convicted felon, and one of which is now the league itself. They lost the man that was slated to be their starting quarterback before the season started. They played a two home games with absolutely zero amenities. Now, they are stuck essentially playing a full slate of road games.

The Orlando Predators promised their fans that they are going to win games this year, and it appears as though they are ready to go to the ends of the earth to make that happen. Earlier this week, the team relieved Offensive Coordinator Chris Siegfried of his duties.

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With a historic defense, a dominate receiving corps, a dual-threat quarterback, and home field advantage clinched throughout the playoffs, there is no doubt that the San Jose SaberCats (17-1) are the current frontrunner to win their fourth ArenaBowl title. With that said, anything can happen in the AFL postseason, a period which has had its significant share of momentous upsets.

League meetings are going on in Phoenix as we speak, and the normally tight-lipped Arena Football League decided to tell the world on Thursday that there would be no Ironman football in the 2013 season. The AFL also announced that the officiating team will be set at five men instead of six as was the case in 2012. Free agency dates were also announced for October.

The Pittsburgh Power and the Orlando Predators are set to play for the second time this season in Week 6 of the Arena Football League season, and the circumstances that they are going to be playing under aren't anywhere near the same as their meeting on the opening night of the season on March 9th.