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Post by fwp on Dec 23, 2008 5:55:44 GMT -5
www.elpasotimes.com/sports/ci_11286485EL PASO -- When the Arena Football League announced last week that it was closing its doors for the 2009 season, it seemed a dark omen for all other arena teams -- including the El Paso Generals, who will begin play in the Indoor Football League in April. Because if the sport's flagship league can't survive in the current economic times, the thinking goes, how can much smaller arena leagues?
But the thing that makes the AFL and leagues like the IFL so different is exactly the thing that is keeping the smaller leagues out of the same kind of financial trouble. That is, the AFL has become such a large league, it has large operating costs and requires big-time sponsors and investors.......article continues in link. More coverage is on the www.indoorfootballfan.com homepage.
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