Post by Banana Cat on Jun 1, 2012 1:08:36 GMT -5
We'll bring them back next year ... great ... because it worked out so great this year, didn't it?
siouxcityjournal.com/sports/football/amateur/apfl-reshuffles-schedule-colorado-cheyenne-still-members/article_9c8ceb0e-3848-576d-bfa2-e9e9d1973635.html
siouxcityjournal.com/sports/football/amateur/apfl-reshuffles-schedule-colorado-cheyenne-still-members/article_9c8ceb0e-3848-576d-bfa2-e9e9d1973635.html
APFL president: Colorado, Cheyenne 'still members'
31 May 2012
MICHAEL BRAUER / siouxcityjournal.com
SIOUX CITY | The APFL tweaked its game plan Thursday, holding off a blitz of forfeits and defection rumors.
The Colorado Lightning folded and the Cheyenne Warriors forfeited the rest of their APFL season, but the indoor football league reshuffled its schedule and plans on holding onto both franchises, according to President Ted Adams.
“All is not blowing up and falling apart as it appears,” Adams said, one day after the defending champion Sioux City Bandits announced the cancellation of this weekend’s game in Cheyenne.
Bandits managing partner Bob Scott said Cheyenne notified him last week that it would drop Saturday’s scheduled game, only to call him back this week and ask if the Bandits still planned on making the trip.
“I even sent a text to the league to know if we were supposed to go,” Scott said. “And they told us no.”
The Warriors, eliminated from playoff contention after losing their first seven games, swapped their remaining APFL opponents for teams from the APFL2, a neighboring semi-pro outdoor league and a “loose affiliate,’ as Adams put it.
The Warriors walloped the APFL2’s Northern Colorado Wolfpack 73-7 last Saturday.
“They’re still full-fledged members,” Adams said, referring to Cheyenne. “They’ll be back next year. It just makes a lot more sense, with records being what they are and travel expenses being what they are, to just do it this way.”
Colorado, meanwhile, folded operations last week -- though official word didn’t come out until Wednesday. The APFL said in a statement that it plans to resurrect the Lightning in 2013.
“There were some people that wanted to step in and take over ownership, and we thought we were going to get that accomplished,” Adams said. “But when it was all said and done, we couldn’t make things match up between the new folks and the old folks. Instead, we decided to just cease operations for this year.”
That leaves the Bandits with two remaining regular season games. Scott said Thursday that Sioux City won’t pursue any additional opponents.
“We’ll gear up for the playoffs,” he said.
Sioux City (8-0) has steamrolled through most of its season, a 31-29 squeaker against the Oklahoma Defenders its only margin of victory closer than 25 points.
Oklahoma joined Cheyenne and Colorado as APFL newcomers this season, hiking the league’s total to eight franchises in its 10th season of existence.
“This year we took a little bit of a gamble, taking on three new teams,” Adams said.
“I know a lot of people look at this league and say they don’t feel like it compares to other indoor leagues,” he added. "Obviously, none of the indoor leagues compares to the AFL because of the type of budget they run on -- but we’ve been around longer than anyone else.”
31 May 2012
MICHAEL BRAUER / siouxcityjournal.com
SIOUX CITY | The APFL tweaked its game plan Thursday, holding off a blitz of forfeits and defection rumors.
The Colorado Lightning folded and the Cheyenne Warriors forfeited the rest of their APFL season, but the indoor football league reshuffled its schedule and plans on holding onto both franchises, according to President Ted Adams.
“All is not blowing up and falling apart as it appears,” Adams said, one day after the defending champion Sioux City Bandits announced the cancellation of this weekend’s game in Cheyenne.
Bandits managing partner Bob Scott said Cheyenne notified him last week that it would drop Saturday’s scheduled game, only to call him back this week and ask if the Bandits still planned on making the trip.
“I even sent a text to the league to know if we were supposed to go,” Scott said. “And they told us no.”
The Warriors, eliminated from playoff contention after losing their first seven games, swapped their remaining APFL opponents for teams from the APFL2, a neighboring semi-pro outdoor league and a “loose affiliate,’ as Adams put it.
The Warriors walloped the APFL2’s Northern Colorado Wolfpack 73-7 last Saturday.
“They’re still full-fledged members,” Adams said, referring to Cheyenne. “They’ll be back next year. It just makes a lot more sense, with records being what they are and travel expenses being what they are, to just do it this way.”
Colorado, meanwhile, folded operations last week -- though official word didn’t come out until Wednesday. The APFL said in a statement that it plans to resurrect the Lightning in 2013.
“There were some people that wanted to step in and take over ownership, and we thought we were going to get that accomplished,” Adams said. “But when it was all said and done, we couldn’t make things match up between the new folks and the old folks. Instead, we decided to just cease operations for this year.”
That leaves the Bandits with two remaining regular season games. Scott said Thursday that Sioux City won’t pursue any additional opponents.
“We’ll gear up for the playoffs,” he said.
Sioux City (8-0) has steamrolled through most of its season, a 31-29 squeaker against the Oklahoma Defenders its only margin of victory closer than 25 points.
Oklahoma joined Cheyenne and Colorado as APFL newcomers this season, hiking the league’s total to eight franchises in its 10th season of existence.
“This year we took a little bit of a gamble, taking on three new teams,” Adams said.
“I know a lot of people look at this league and say they don’t feel like it compares to other indoor leagues,” he added. "Obviously, none of the indoor leagues compares to the AFL because of the type of budget they run on -- but we’ve been around longer than anyone else.”