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I'm literally just minutes away from walking out of my house to drive over to Tampa Bay for our flight to Phoenix for ArenaBowl XXIV, and this stunning thought hit me: This really could be a damn good ArenaBowl! In a season with all sorts of duds for games and teams that were wildly inconsistent, we, the Arena Football fans, got exactly what we wanted in this game.
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Jacksonville Sharks quarterback Aaron Garcia completed a 10 yard pass to Jeron Harvey as time expired to win ArenaBowl XXIV 73-70 in front of 14,320 atthe U.S. Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The 143 total points is the most ever in ArenaBowl history.
The Jacksonville Sharks are having their worst season in franchise history, and the lowest point of that season came on Saturday night when they were smacked by the Cleveland Gladiators 62-20 at Quicken Loans Arena.
Prior to Saturday night's game, there was already no love lost between the Jacksonville Sharks and the Orlando Predators. The intensity of this budding rivalry has officially been kicked up a notch. In what very well could be a playoff preview, the Sharks beat the Predators 62-55 to take a commanding two and a half-game lead in the Southeast Division with just three games to play.
The Jacksonville Sharks might not have QB Aaron Garcia an longer, but they are doing something that Garcia isn't this year: Playing in a conference championship game. It certainly was a tale of two games though, as the Sharks nearly blew the biggest lead in a playoff game in AFL history against the Georgia Force, who should be commended for erasing a 48-21 deficit in the second half. Still, in the end, a 51-yard field goal by K Marco Capozzoli proved to be the difference in a 58-56 triumph.
QB Aaron Garcia has his storybook ending after all. The quarterback for the Jacksonville Sharks called his own number on the final play of ArenaBowl XXIV and came up with the biggest play in his storied career. Thanks to WR Jeron Harvey's 10-yard TD reception with no time remaining, the Sharks beat the host Arizona Rattlers to claim ArenaBowl XXIV by a 73-70 score in front of 14,320 at the US Airways Center.
Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena is already full of red banners hanging from the rafters with division titles and an ArenaBowl championship. The year 2014 though, was the first in the history of the Jacksonville Sharks where there was nothing to celebrate.