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Sponsored by Phenom Elite - Tim Capper interviews an executive who made quite a name for himself while with the Spokane Shock, Ryan Eucker.

The NFL is king in the United States. It's the biggest business in the country, and every time a league has cropped up to try to challenge or work alongside the NFL, it has failed and failed miserably.

Two years in a row, the San Jose SaberCats' season ended with a bitter one-and-done playoff exit. Two years in a row, it was to their archrival Arizona Rattlers in Phoenix. Two years in a row, they watched the same team that ended their season go on to taste the postseason glory that every franchise longs for.

Going into the last week of play in the 2012 Arena Football League season, the common complaint is that the Spokane Shock and the Chicago Rush should both be in the playoffs. After all, they are both likely to finish with better records than all but one team in the American Conference playoffs. In the end this year though, those aren't the ones that really have the rights to complain. The ones that should be complaining are the fans of the Cleveland Gladiators and the Pittsburgh Power.

KREM 2 took home awards for continuing coverage and digital reporting on a variety of topics, including the I-90 homeless camp, Spokane Shock and the Moscow murders.