1997 AFL season - Factbites

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In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

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Peter Chernin

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Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	NBC bids farewell to NFL
		"The end of the 1997 NFL season and for NBC, Super Bowl 32 is the end of 33 years of covering AFL and NFL action," he said.
		In between, viewers were subject to talking heads and cookie-cutter features like the repeated ones on big eater Gilbert Brown and Terrell Davis' homecoming that made Sunday afternoon drag on endlessly.
		His arrogant argument that viewers will turn away from a game if they know the score rings hollow, especially in the Super Bowl, where there is no real competition.
	www.canoe.ca /97NFLPlayoffs/jan25_nbc.html (792 words)

	NFL Trivia
		As of the end of the 1997 season, who was the all-time leader for kickoff returns with 421?
		Entering the 1998 season, which two former quarterbacks are the only players to lead the NFL or AFL in touchdown passes for a season four times?
		As of the end of the 2000 season, Steve Young shared an NFL record for six touchdowns in a postseason game.
	www.couchpotatotrivia.com /sports/nfl/getquestions.asp (703 words)

	CNNSI.com - Pro Football - The AFL: A Football Legacy -- An eight-team game - Monday January 22, 2001 03:29 PM
		NBC stayed with the AFL when it became the American Football Conference in 1970 as part of the merger and carried AFC games through the 1997 season.
		From a modest eight-team beginning in 1960 to the Kansas City Chiefs' victory in Super Bowl IV to close the '69 season, the AFL had a colorful, bizarre history that is a large part of the modern National Football League that we know today.
		Davis coached another two seasons before becoming AFL commissioner in April 1966.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/news/2001/01/22/afl_history_1 (703 words)

	Colorado can't let up in Arena playoffs - AFL - MSNBC.com
		He started coaching in the AFL in 1988 and became a head coach in the league in 1997 when the Firebirds promoted him from assistant head coach and offensive coordinator.
		The Crush were last in the AFL a year ago in average points allowed (59.9), but in 2004 only five teams surrendered less points per game on average than did Colorado (46.5).
		It's become apparent to me that to really understand the nuances of the AFL one has to have either played in the league or been around the indoor game for a while.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/5183447 (703 words)

	CNNSI.com - Pro Football - The AFL: A Football Legacy -- An eight-team game - Monday January 22, 2001 03:29 PM
		NBC stayed with the AFL when it became the American Football Conference in 1970 as part of the merger and carried AFC games through the 1997 season.
		From a modest eight-team beginning in 1960 to the Kansas City Chiefs' victory in Super Bowl IV to close the '69 season, the AFL had a colorful, bizarre history that is a large part of the modern National Football League that we know today.
		With Cannon in tow, the Oilers reached the AFL title game in each of their first three seasons and won the first two.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /football/news/2001/01/22/afl_history_1 (1629 words)

	2000 Pre-Olympic Congress
		The number of ACL injuries in the AFL competition has fallen every season from 1997-2000.
		Between 1992 and 1998, there were 4681 injuries Australian Football League [AFL] injuries, that satisfied the definition of missing a regular season game, over 97060 player weeks.
		After a deliberate policy to soften grounds in season 1999, the average reading was 5.13 cm ± 0.59, which was significantly higher (softer) (p<0.01).
	www.ausport.gov.au /fulltext/2000/preoly/abs334c.htm (1629 words)

	the futon critic - the web's best primetime television resource
		NBC was awarded the AFC package in 1970, an association that would continue through the 1997-98 season.
		NBC televised the first Super Bowl in 1967, Super Bowl III between the Baltimore Colts and New York Jets, which led to the merger of the AFL and NFL, and has broadcast three of the most five watched Super Bowls in history.
		The six-year deal, which includes innovative flexible scheduling, begins with the 2006 season, continues through 2011 and includes Super Bowls in 2009 and 2012 and Pro Bowls in the same years.
	www.thefutoncritic.com /cgi/pr.cgi?&id=20050418nbc01 (981 words)

	GoVooDoo.com
		AFL 1997: Kelly was chosen by the Nashville Kats with their first selection in the Arena Football League Expansion Draft, and then led the league with a 113.8 quarterback rating on 309-pf-497 passing for a career-high 3,821 yards, 14 interceptions and a league and career-high 83 touchdown passes.
		AFL 2002: Kelly became the league's all-time passing leader after his season with the Dallas Desperados and led the expansion team to the second round of the playoffs.
		AFL 1993: He ranked as the leading passer for the Charlotte Rage, completing 178-of-332 passes for 2,139 yards, 34 touchdown passes and 15 interceptions to register an 88.0 quarterback rating.
	www.govoodoo.com /playerbio.cfm?playerid=81 (981 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page
		The Oilers won the AFL Eastern Division title again in 1967, then became the first professional football team to play in a domed stadium, when they moved into Houston's Astrodome for the 1968 season.
		After winning the first-ever AFL championship over the Los Angeles Chargers in 1960, they repeated over the same team (then in San Diego) in 1961.
		They lost to the Dallas Texans in the classic 1962 double-overtime AFL championship game, at the time the longest, and still one of the best professional football championship games ever played.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Houston_Oilers (955 words)

	Articles - Tennessee Titans
		The Oilers won the AFL Eastern Division title again in 1967, then became the first professional football team to play in a domed stadium, when they moved into Houston's Astrodome for the 1968 season.
		The mid- 1990s signaled the decline of the Houston Oilers and the ill-fated "run and shoot" offense and by 1997, owner Bud Adams moved the team out of Houston.
		The Titans made the playoffs in their inaugural year in the "Music City", which was capped off by their unbelievable first round playoff victory over the Buffalo Bills and a third win over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
	www.beadscenter.com /articles/Houston_Oilers (955 words)

	AFL Footy Australia Talking Football
		Our team aims to provide you the online viewer with the tools necessary to understand the game of AFL ( Australian Football League) Football further.
		Join Our Free Online 2004 AFL Football Tipping Competition
		Australian Football League - Footy Team Statistics 2003 - 1997
	www.talkingfootball.net (955 words)

	The Sports Network - National Football League
		The clubs have also met once in the postseason, a 26-8 New England road victory in a 1963 AFL Division Playoff.
		Bill Belichick's club has won 17 games in a row, including the playoffs, dating back to last season, and will tie the NFL mark of 18 with a victory at Ralph Wilson Stadium this week.
		Buffalo has acquired a reputation as one of the NFL's best run-stopping teams, with the presence of mammoth defensive tackles Sam Adams and Pat Williams having much to do with the stigma.
	www.sportsnetwork.com /merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nfl/scores/live/pv1157.htm (1093 words)

	Packers.com » Team » Players » Ryan Longwell
		In 2004, became the only NFL kicker since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger to make four game-winning field goals in the final minute of the fourth quarter in one season.
		In tricky Lambeau Field, owns 84.1 percent field goal conversion rate (106/126); opponents since 1997 are only 80 of 109 (73.4 percent).
		Stands as the fourth-most accurate field goal specialist in NFL history at 82.4 percent (206/250)
	www.packers.com /team/players/longwell_ryan (190 words)

	Glossary
		The 2004 season saw the resurrection of the William Leitch medal to reward the best and fairest player(s) in each season's AFL Southern Tasmania Premier League competition.
		Award bestowed on the best and fairest player of the season in the Northern Tasmanian Football League from 1997 to 1999.
		As part of the Australian Football League's centenary celebrations a US style 'hall of fame' was instituted as a means of formally recognising the achievements of some of the greatest names in the history of the sport.
	www.fullpointsfooty.net /glossary.htm (190 words)

	Epidemiology of injuries in the Australian Football League, seasons 1997-2000 -- Orchard and Seward 36 (1): 39 -- British Journal of Sports Medicine
		Epidemiology of injuries in the Australian Football League, seasons 1997-2000 -- Orchard and Seward 36 (1): 39 -- British Journal of Sports Medicine
		Abbreviations: AFL, Australian Football League; ACL, anterior cruciate ligament
		(of 40 players) per season (of 22 matches).
	bjsm.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/abstract/36/1/39 (190 words)

	Epidemiology of injuries in the Australian Football League, seasons 1997-2000 -- Orchard and Seward 36 (1): 39 -- British Journal of Sports Medicine
		Epidemiology of injuries in the Australian Football League, seasons 1997-2000 -- Orchard and Seward 36 (1): 39 -- British Journal of Sports Medicine
		Abbreviations: AFL, Australian Football League; ACL, anterior cruciate ligament
		(of 40 players) per season (of 22 matches).
	bjsm.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/abstract/36/1/39 (190 words)

	Epidemiology of injuries in the Australian Football League, seasons 1997-2000 -- Orchard and Seward 36 (1): 39 -- British Journal of Sports Medicine
		Epidemiology of injuries in the Australian Football League, seasons 1997–2000
		Abbreviations: AFL, Australian Football League; ACL, anterior cruciate ligament
		(of 40 players) per season (of 22 matches).
	bjsm.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/abstract/36/1/39 (190 words)

	Untitled
		The start of the 1997 season to the end of the 2000 season the WAFL was called Westar Rules.
		The AFL is the Australian Football League; the highest level budding footballers aspire too.
		The major hunting grounds are the Victorian Football League (VFL), the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and the Western Australian Football League (WAFL).
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/10747/68095 (190 words)

	Untitled
		The start of the 1997 season to the end of the 2000 season the WAFL was called Westar Rules.
		The major hunting grounds are the Victorian Football League (VFL), the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) and the Western Australian Football League (WAFL).
		The AFL is the Australian Football League; the highest level budding footballers aspire too.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/10747/68095 (190 words)

	VICNET Quick Links
		Blast the umpires, eulogise your favourite players and have a say on the controversial incidents at the best afl footy forum".
		Since playing its first game in 1870, the club has gone on to win an Australian record of 34 SANFL premierships (up until 1997) including six in a row and achieve the honour of being Champions of Australia on four occasions.
		The USAFL has over 35 member teams with over 1000 people playing the sport.
	www.vicnet.net.au /quicklinks/2002/footyfinals (190 words)

	All the Stats Home
		The Brisbane Lions have had some big climbs up the ladder such as in 1997 and 2000 when they were languishing in 15th and 14th place respectively after 8 rounds of those seasons and still finished playing in the finals both those years.
		If you are after Australian Football League (AFL) (previously known as the Victorian Football League) statistics, records or information, you have come to the right place.
		Richmond had the worst season fade-out from round 8 to seasons end.
	www.allthestats.com (190 words)

	Adelaide Crows
		Player honors: 3rd Brownlow Medal 2000; best and fairest 1997; 2nd best and fairest 1998, 1999, 2000; Norm Smith Medal 1997, 1998; All-Australian 1998, 2000; Norwich Union AFL Rising Star nominee 1995; premiership sides 1997, 1998.
		The first Crow to reach 200 AFL games was chaired off the field after the club's best win of the season against Richmond in round 13.
		It shows the remarkable consistency of the player who won back-to-back Norm Smith Medals as best afield in the 1997 and 1998 Grand Finals.
	users.bigpond.net.au /rs/crows/pages/articles.htm (916 words)

	San Jose Sabercats
		A former AFL lineman, Papasedero retired in 1997 and began his coaching career the following season as the Predators line coach.
		He was named the AFL’s Coach of the Year in 2000 following a league record tying 12 regular season wins, Arbet guided the SaberCats to an AFL record 15 consecutive regular season victories (11 in ’00, 4 in ’01) and is the only head coach in team history to post a playoff victory.
		In his four years as an assistant, the Predators compiled a 43-23 record, four AFL playoff trips, three ArenaBowl appearances and two titles.
	www.sanjosesabercats.com /newsroom.php?newsid=42 (916 words)

	nov2-68369.html
		The will also be classic games from the defunct Sports AFL channel from 1996 & 1997 as well as games from Channel Seven’s extensive archive of the past 45 years.
		The channel Optus Vision will broadcast AFL on its service will be channel 13, which currently is C7 Sport Blue (which was the designated AFL channel by the channel’s provider, Channel Seven), which Optus have already removed from their web site & advertising promotions.
		This is also the first time a home-and-away season is launched before the pre-season, as a replacement for Ansett Airlines as the sponsor of the pre-season competition is yet to be found.
	www.afana.com /netpaper/nov2-68369.html (5570 words)

	AZSPORTSFAN.COM: Members: Sports Page
		Teams competing in the 2002 AFL season are: Arizona Rattlers, Buffalo Destroyers, Carolina Cobras, Chicago Rush, Dallas Desperados, Detroit Fury, Georgia Force, Grand Rapids Rampage, Indiana Firebirds, Los Angeles Avengers, New Jersey Gladiators, New York Dragons, Orlando Predators, San Jose SaberCats, Tampa Bay Storm and Toronto Phantoms.
		Sixteen teams will kickoff the AFL's 16th season on April 19, 2002 including new teams in Atlanta (Georgia Force) and Dallas (Desperados).
		VITO "BABE" PARILLI, Head coach, New England Steamrollers 1988, Denver Dynamite 1989-91, Charlotte Rage 1992, Las Vegas Sting 1994-95, Anaheim Piranhas 1996, Florida Bobcats 1997.
	azsportsfan.com /members/sports/04172002.4.html (5570 words)

	Grand Rapids Rampage - ArenaBowl XV Champions
		White's leadership skills as a quarterback were evident when he broke the Dallas Cowboys single season touchdown passing record in his first year as a starter (1980).
		White, a 2002 AFL Hall of Fame inductee, was named the Rattlers first Head Coach and General Manager on October 10, 1991.
		July 24, 2004- Danny White was the head coach/general manager for the Arizona Rattlers from 1992-2004, leading them to five ArenaBowl appearances (1994, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004) and two championships (1994, 1997).
	rampagefootball.com /news?id=322 (453 words)

	Dallas Desperados - Coach
		As Houston's offensive coordinator in 1997, Thonn guided the most improved offense in AFL history, increasing the team's scoring by 22.3 points-per-game while finishing the year first in the league in passing offense (306.1 yards-per-game), second in total offense (316.0) and fourth in scoring (52.4).
		In 2000, Houston led the AFL in total offensive yards (4,393) for the third consecutive season while averaging 50.6 points-per-game.
		The 1999 ThunderBears led the league in passing offense for the third consecutive season (4,665 yards) while also topping the AFL's total offense chart with 4,756 yards (339.7 per game).
	www.dallasdesperados.com /team_thonn_steve.cfm (677 words)

	Georgia Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kats were the league's Organization of the Year for their inaugural year of 1997, and were in the playoffs for every season of their relatively brief existence, even playing in the ArenaBowl each of their final two seasons, albeit losing both times they reached the AFL's championship game.
		The original Kats played in the Gaylord Entertainment Center in downtown Nashville and were initially coached by Eddie Khayat in 1997 and 1998, who was succeeded by Pat Speurduto for the balance of the team's time in Nashville.
		The team, which relocated to Atlanta in 2002, began as the first Nashville Kats team from 1997 to 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georgia_Force (457 words)

	Sportal.com.au
		Wanganeen, 32, has played 15 of the 16 home-and-away season matches this year to boost his regular-season total to 291 - 127 with Essendon from 1991-96 and 164 with Port since 1997.
		Port Adelaide coach Mark Williams says he hopes Gavin Wanganeen will try to push his aching body through at least one more AFL season.
		As much as his body is crying 'enough' because of the punishment the fearless 1993 Brownlow medallist and five-time All-Australian has absorbed over his long, illustrious career, the lure of reaching the 300-game milestone, probably early next season, might convince him to play on.
	www.sportal.com.au /?i=news&id=68690 (353 words)

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