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WikiProject Arena Football League Newsletter - October 2008
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Project News
- Articles for the more popular and "star" players of the league need to be expanded, have citations added to them and hopefully we can get some GA's out of them.
- All articles on active players and coaches need to be updated with stats, news, and all things important. (Note: For stats it's best to use ArenaFan.)
- Also, we NEED to get things done so we can take them off of the to do list.
Current Events
- The Kansas City Brigade will hold open tryouts on Sunday, October 12, beginning at 8a.m. at the Kansas City SoccerDome.
- The Utah Blaze will be holding a player combine on October 17, at the University of Utah.
- Darion Conner, a former member of the Tampa Bay Storm won the right to a retrial in his DUI Manslaughter case. He is currently serving the maximum sentence for the crime, 15 years in state prison. It was also his fifth DUI conviction since 1990, first since 1993.
- In the NFL, Matt Millen has been removed as the Detroit Lions' team president, and CEO.
- Billy Parker of the New York Dragons, alongside new Dragons Advisory Board members Kerry Rhodes of the New York Jets and Danny Clark of the New York Giants, unveiled the teams new logo on September 23, 2008.
- On September 22, it was announced that Toledo, Ohio will receive and af2 team begining in 2010.
- Dean Cokinos has agreed to a two year contract to remain the head coach of the Tennessee Valley Vipers.
- On September 24, 2008 the Colorado Crush have hired Chris MacKeown as their new offensive coordinator.
Transactions
- On September 3, 2008 the Chicago Rush released DL James Baron.
- The New York Jets signed Philadelphia Soul wide reciever and Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2005 fifth round pick Larry Brackins, however he was released before the start of the regular season and then on September 2, signed to their practice squad.
- Thursday September 11, 2008 the San Jose SaberCats waived OL Walter Curry. And the New York Dragons waived K Chris Onorato.
- On Monday September 15, 2008 the Kansas City Brigade waived FB/LB Chris Avery.
- On Wednesday September 17, 2008 The Los Angeles Avengers waived DL Joe Bradley.
- The New Orleans VooDoo hired Derek Stingley as their new defensive coordinator. Stingley had been last season's Coach of the Year for the South Georgia Wildcats. He is the son of former New England Patriots player Darryl Stingley, as well as an AFL defensive back.
- On September 19, 2008 the Rattlers released FB/LB Dane Krager, and waived LB Lance Mitchell.
- On September 22, 2008 the Arizona Rattlers activated DL Darrell Shropshire, and placed DL Mkristo Bruce on the exempted list.
- Also on September 22, the VooDoo activated OL Rob Hunt. The Soul activated OL Phil Bogle and WR Larry Brackins. The SaberCats activated WR Burl Toler. The Tampa Bay Storm activated WR Hank Edwards. The Blaze activated OL Jesse Boone and DL Maurice Fountain.
- On September 24, 2008 the VooDoo traded future considerations to the Philadelphia Soul for WR Michael Lewis.
This Month in Football History
- October 1, 1955 - Baltimore Colt Alan Ameche became the first rookie in NFL history to rush for more than 100 yards in his first two games after totaling 153 yards against Detroit. He had 194 yards in his debut against Chicago.
- October 2, 1950 - Bob Shaw set an NFL record with five touchdown catches as the Chicago Cardinals defeated the Baltimore Colts 55-13. The record was tied in 1981 by Kellen Winslow and again in 1990 by Jerry Rice.
- October 3, 1920 - The Dayton Triangles defeated the Columbus Panhandles 14-0 and the Rock Island Independents defeated the Muncie Flyers 45-0 in the first ever games between NFL (then the American Pro Football Association) clubs.
- October 4, 1992 - Miami's Louis Oliver returned an interception a record-tying 103 yards for a touchdown against Buffalo, tying the mark set by Vencie Glenn against Denver on November 29, 1987.
- October 5, 1986 - Eric Dickerson ran for an overtime-record 42-yard touchdown as the Los Angeles Rams defeat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 26-20.
Arena Football League Article Stats
- Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles down to 0, in due time. The current article count is listed below, I have placed the forumla that is on the project page that is updated everytime the bot is run and it tallies up our articles and where they are and lists them as seen below, so that no one has to worry about making sure it's updated manually before the newsletter is sent out. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list is provided in the stub-class category of stub articles that need to be improved, and some should be fairly easy.
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Member News
- Based on the members list, there are currently 28 members participating in WikiProject Arena Football League.
- On the calendar:
- October
- 15: AFL Free agency period begins.
- 26: San Diego Chargers vs. New Orleans Saints at London's Wembley Stadium. (The second NFL regular-season game to be played outside of North America.)
- October
Collaboration of the Week
- The article collaboration is currently suspended until we obtain more members who are active in the project.
- Please help to improve these articles to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia American football related article.
- The next articles for collaboration will be chosen once we have a sufficient number of active project members.
Cast your vote to select the collaboration for next month! — Nominate an article that could be greatly improved!
Articles for Deletion
- Current:
- Kept:
- Redirected/Merged:
- Deleted:
New AFL Articles
From the Editors
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