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Who Is This Guy? What do I now about The World of Football? Plenty. I have traveled quite a bit over the years and I've experienced many aspects of the football world first hand. I saw my first NFL game in 1975 at the age of 16 when my brother took me to a Detroit Lions game. The Lions defeated the Green Bay Packers that day, 13-10. It was the first season that the Lions played in the Pontiac Silverdome.
In 1984, I attended my first USFL game, also at the Pontiac Silverdome. The Michigan Panthers defeated the Chicago Blitz 17-12. In 1985 I flew out to Arizona to see Doug Flutie and the New Jersey Generals play the Arizona Outlaws. Arizona won, 31-13. (I was young and single at the time and could afford to do crazy stuff like that) I went to my first CFL game in Toronto in 1994, again to see Doug Flutie play. This time he was playing for the visiting Calgary Stampeders. Calgary beat the Toronto Argonauts, 52-3 at the SkyDome. In 2000, I attended my first Arena Football League game. The Grand Rapids Rampage lost to the visiting Tampa Bay Storm 74-54, but I had such a great time that night that I was hooked. I became a Rampage season ticket holder the very next season. In 2003, I began covering the Rampage for the web site, ArenaFan.com. I also attended my first National Indoor Football League game and my first arenafootball2 game that year. The NIFL game was in Fort Wayne, Indiana between the Fort Wayne Freedom and the visiting Tennessee Riverhawks. The af2 game was in Kentucky between the Louisville Fire and the Quad City Steamwheelers at Freedom Hall. Also in 2003, I got to see Doug Flutie play in person yet again. This time he was the starting quarterback of the San Diego Chargers in a game at Ford Field against the Detroit Lions. San Diego won the game, 14-7. In 2005, I added two more indoor leagues to the list of games attended, United Indoor Football and the Atlantic Indoor Football League. The Fort Wayne Freedom had jumped to the UIF when I saw them for the second time and I also took in an AIFL game in Ohio between the Canton Legends and the visiting Johnstown Riverhawks. In 2006, I covered the Battle Creek Crunch of the Great Lakes Indoor Football League for the web site, OurSportsCentral.com. In 2007 I also covered the Kalamazoo Xplosion of the Continental Indoor Football League (formerly the GLIFL) and the Fort Wayne Fusion of arenafootball2. Along the way I have also attended countless pee-wee, high school, college and even Women's football games. This is my world, The World of Football. |
I
played high school football in 1976 at Maple Valley High School in Vermontville,
Michigan. At 115 pounds, I was the third string offensive center. I was terrible
as a player, but as a fan, I was terrific.