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Friday night, the Cleveland Gladiators forfeited to the Pittsburgh Power because the team couldn't field enough players due to the on-going labor issues with the AFL and the Players Union. It marked the first forfeited game in league history - a stretch of more than 24 and a half years and 2,557 games, including the regular season and postseason.
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The last AFL regular season game of the year could easily be a preview of ArenaBowl XXV when the Philadelphia Soul hosts the Utah Blaze this Sunday evening. Not only does this game feature the top two scoring teams in the league, it also has the top two quarterbacks in each conference in Utah's Tommy Grady and Philadelphia's Dan Raudabaugh.
It was no accident that he was the Arena Football League MVP in 2013. Quarterback Erik Meyer found ways to extend crucial plays in his first matchup against the team that knows him best, the Spokane Shock, and he managed to lead San Jose to a comfortable 55-26 victory over their Pacific Division rival on Friday night.
In 2012 the Philadelphia Soul went 15-3 in the regular season. This year the Soul are 0-3 just three games in to the 2014 season and are raising questions around the league.