Post by fwp on Apr 4, 2009 14:07:43 GMT -5
washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/04/a-night-to-get-medieval-for-dc-football-fans/
Ninety feet above the floor of the D.C. Armory, workers carefully lowered the goal posts from the ceiling.
Yes, goal posts hanging from the ceiling. A football field laid out on the Armory floor. Sandbags filling plastic barriers to keep the wall in place surrounding the football field.
This is football, baby, and not that sissy stuff they play at FedEx Field.
This is medieval football.
Indoor football will make its debut at the Armory on Saturday when the D.C. Armor play their first home game against the Reading Express.
There has been arena-style football in the area before. The Washington Commandos were one of the first four teams in the Arena Football League in 1987, but they played at Capital Centre and later at Patriot Center. There was an indoor team called the Chesapeake Tide that played in The Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro several years ago, and now there is another one playing there, the Maryland Maniacs.
But the D.C Armor, who compete in the American Indoor Football Association, will be the first indoor football team to play in the confines of the District. Their home debut will be a D.C. event, with go-go legend Chuck Brown performing at halftime.
It takes a brave man in this economy to start a professional sports franchise, especially in the world of indoor football. The premier league, the AFL, shut down operations for this season, and the sport's history is full of teams coming and going in the blink of an eye.......article continues in link.
Ninety feet above the floor of the D.C. Armory, workers carefully lowered the goal posts from the ceiling.
Yes, goal posts hanging from the ceiling. A football field laid out on the Armory floor. Sandbags filling plastic barriers to keep the wall in place surrounding the football field.
This is football, baby, and not that sissy stuff they play at FedEx Field.
This is medieval football.
Indoor football will make its debut at the Armory on Saturday when the D.C. Armor play their first home game against the Reading Express.
There has been arena-style football in the area before. The Washington Commandos were one of the first four teams in the Arena Football League in 1987, but they played at Capital Centre and later at Patriot Center. There was an indoor team called the Chesapeake Tide that played in The Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro several years ago, and now there is another one playing there, the Maryland Maniacs.
But the D.C Armor, who compete in the American Indoor Football Association, will be the first indoor football team to play in the confines of the District. Their home debut will be a D.C. event, with go-go legend Chuck Brown performing at halftime.
It takes a brave man in this economy to start a professional sports franchise, especially in the world of indoor football. The premier league, the AFL, shut down operations for this season, and the sport's history is full of teams coming and going in the blink of an eye.......article continues in link.