Crrrap!: Voodoo Folds Again.

Friday, October 17, 2008

Voodoo Folds Again.

VooDoo Terminates Operations

Times-Picayune - The New Orleans VooDoo's four-season run ended Monday when owner Tom Benson informed the Arena Football League of his plans to terminate operations of the franchise, Saints vice president of communications Greg Bensel said.

It is uncertain exactly why Benson, who also owns the Saints, decided to fold his AFL team, which has been the host for the past two ArenaBowls.

This pretty much took everyone by surprise. Free Agency was just about to kick off. Now there's a Dispersal Draft too. The Voodoo came into the league at the same time the Soul did, spoiling the Soul's inaugural game. Which gave us a bit of a love/hate thing. After Hurricane Katrina, they understandably sat out the '06 season. They returned in '07 and NOLA played host to Arena Bowl XXI, making the AFL was the first pro sports league to host a championship game there post-Katrina. NOLA again played host to the Arena Bowl this year and this is where I come in.

I'd never been to NOLA before. Me and vacations don't usually work out. But as a Soul season ticket holder since day one and as a lifelong Cardinals fan (no, not the baseball team) who has more or less accepted the fact that they will most likely continue their perfect record of not going to the Super Bowl, I was definitely going to the Arena Bowl if the Soul made it. Which they did, for the first time in their five year history.

The city did a great job (surprisingly great, seeing how generally crappy the rest of the sports world is towards the AFL) of playing host to the AFL fans that came to town. Including the close to seven thousand Soul fans. I had a blast. Let's just say, NOLA, especially Bourbon Street, is decidedly... receptive shall we say, to a guy in a kilt. I can't wait to get back down there when it's a bit cooler.

The fans were very supportive of the Voodoo. Posting consistently high attendance numbers. It's a shame they had the team yanked out from under them like this. Hopefully they can find another owner and return to the league.

What's This Crrrap All About?

Up until, as it turned out, a few months before Dan Rather was publicly pantsed for trying to, once again, influence the outcome of a national election, I didn't even know that the heck a 'blog' was. Since then, I've been wandering around the blogosphere. I've been inspired by what I've come across (for the most part) and thought I'd give it a shot but what should blog about? I mean, it seems like most blogs tend to break down into two groups. The "I did this, I did that" model and the "So-n-so sucks" model. And who the heck needs another one of those?

One of my favorite blogs belongs to Kim du Toit. Sure, he has plently of the two-model-type stuff I mentioned but he breaks it up with other bits as well. Very informative bits. So, I got to wondering about the 'other bits' I'd post.

That's when the title hit me. "Crrrap" is the battlecry, so to speak, of a fictional character of mine named coincidently (or not) Ohms. A reluctant hero who doesn't look for the situations he finds himself in, but once in one, he's definately going to deal with it. More often than not, with the use of a gizmo of some sort.

I've come across my share of 'gizmos' in my brief time upon this big blue marble so I'll be breaking things up by passing them along to my readers... you know, once I get some.

Hopefully no one will ever have a need for these bits, but if you do, you'll be glad you stopped by.

Crrrap!

Friday, October 17, 2008

Voodoo Folds Again.

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