Arena Football Fresh Or Stale?

[The Freshness]

So this is going to be Part II, though it takes place first. The "first part" will be at the other FvS site, Here. So the original plan was to head up to New Hampshire at about 10:30 AM to spend the day at my boss Russ' house. Cooking out, playing video games and drinking, you know the usual. Well it turned out that it was more like 11 or so before we got on the road. On out way up we dropped of Amber, now why she is with that Stale MF who knows. She is waay fresher than him, granted I guess the same could be said about my wife. Once we got up there it was off to Market Basket to buy the food. Most of us were hungry so the plan was to grab a quick bite at Quizzno's, Frank, Rook and myself had to find a liqour store, so we met the Stale One and Jose there.

We had quite the group. There was a total of eight people going to the game itself. We had more like ten possibly eleven there during the day. For the most part it was The Stale One, Rook and myself playing Guitar Hero for the PS2. By that of course I mean we were standing in a very Stale shadow, as he owns us all in this game. That is of course until "Nap Time" when Jose, Staleness and Rook all decided to fall asleep, leaving me to play Guitar Hero solo. So between game playing and eating time flew by. Next thing you knew it was time to boot to Manchester.


Score by Quarters 1 2 3 4
Albany Conquest 7 7 10 21 -45 Record: (2-1)
Manchester Wolves 12 12 14 21 -59 Record: (1-1)

[The Staleness]

Well I am not a big fan of pregame business, whether for NFL games or AFL2 games. I hate tailgating, I guess I don't really see the point. So while the cookout and Guitar Hero was fresh, I would have just a soon slept in and gone straight to the game. But then I would have had to drive up myself, so I got up earlier than I would have on a Saturday when I wasn't working, and took the free ride to NH.

I was not too familiar with AFL rules compared to NFL, having only seen a few bits of AFL games on TV. One that we got reminded of about 20 times was that in the last minute of every half, all time outs are 30 second time out. Which they will keep remind you of. Over. And over. Ok, I get it, 30 seconds.

We had pretty fresh seats, 4th row from the "field" which was pretty damn close. We weren't quite close enough to the corner to have a lot of errantly thrown passes come into our section of the crowd, which is a high point of the evening when it happens. The one that was thrown near us, I probably would have had were I one row further up. But instead, I leap up, and come down junk first onto Frank's head. Walk it off son, walk it off...

I was a big fan of the numerous times we got the "Steeeeeeeve Perry!" psyche-out going. Too bad it only affected the Manchester kicker, as he missed his first 4 kicks, and blew 2 kickoffs, one by kicking too high and nailing the hanging jumbotron!

[The Verdict]

[The Freshness] Overall I would say that our Pregame sheenanigans were pretty Fresh. As far as I know everyone had a good time, so that is all that matters.

[The Staleness] A good time was had by all, Manchester won, and it was a pretty Fresh and entertaining game at that. I even took the semi-fresh camera phone pic of the game you see up top.