It's Official AFL Goes Bye Bye

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It's Official AFL Goes Bye Bye

Story Created: Aug 5, 2009 at 4:15 PM CST

Story Updated: Aug 5, 2009 at 4:15 PM CST

(8-5-09)

The Arena Football League has shut down, this time indefinitely.
The league, which previously called off play for the 2009 season
but said it planned to return in 2010, sent a terse, one-paragraph
statement to its teams late Tuesday announcing it had suspended
operations.
The statement said the AFL's board had been "unable to reach
any consensus on restructuring the league over the past eight
months."
The 22-year-old indoor league had lost its commissioner and two
teams since the end of last season. It reached a new agreement with
its players this year, but that wasn't sufficient to persuade AFL
enough owners that the league could return to profitability.
The AFL's board said "there are no other viable options
available to the league right now."

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Thursday, Aug 6 at 11:56 PM mike wrote ...

good the sharks and the hammerheads were not very good anyways

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