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Topic: 1998 AFL season

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New York Dragons AFL 101 History Board also approves application for team in Raleigh (July 30) to begin play in 2000 and to a group led by former NFL veteran QB Ron Jaworski and former AFL Commissioner Jim Drucker to begin play no later than the 2002 season in a city to be determined... NFL bylaws previously prohibited NFL owners from investing in other football leagues or teams, but an amendment to NFL rules was adopted on May 22, 1998, allowing an exception for AFL teams in an NFL club's own market. For the season, 17 AFL teams combined to draw record total of 1,145,134 fans, for an average of 9,623 per game during the 119-game, 15-week regular season. www.newyorkdragons.com /afl101/aflhistory.html

2000 Pre-Olympic Congress 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. The average Penetrometer reading in season 1998 was 4.74 cm ± 0.51 (three drop average). The number of ACL injuries in the AFL competition has fallen every season from 1997-2000. www.ausport.gov.au /fulltext/2000/preoly/abs334c.htm

AllSports (tm) NBC Sports’ inaugural coverage of the Arena Football League on Sunday, Feb. 2 debuted with a 1.6 national rating/4 share, tying the ArenaBowl XII telecast (Aug. 23, 1998) for the highest AFL rating in its 17-year history, according to Nielsen Media Research. Attendance for the first week of the 2003 AFL season was up 26 percent vs. the first week of the 2002 season, and up 31 percent vs. the 2002 season average. The ArenaBowl rematch between the San Jose SaberCats and the Arizona Rattlers will be one of the featured games as NBC begins their first season of AFL coverage. www.allsports.com /cgi-bin/morestories.cgi?category=arena   (2221 words)

Bibliography Lovett, Michael (ed.) AFL '98: the Official Statistical History of the AFL (Melbourne, Australian Football League, 1998). Lovett, Michael (ed.) AFL 2000: the Official Statistical History of the AFL (Melbourne, Australian Football League, 2000). Lee, David and Michael Barfoot NTFL: a History of Australian Football in Darwin and the Northern Territory from 1916 to 1995 (Darwin, Northern Territory Football League, 1995). www.fullpointsfooty.net /bibliography.htm   (2221 words)

GoVooDoo.com AFL 2001: Played 14 games for the Cobras...Carried the ball 43 times for 112 yards and a career-high 10 touchdowns, setting a Cobras franchise record for rushing touchdowns in a single season...Had 8.0 tackles, two pass breakups, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery on defense...Rushed for a career-high 45 yards at Toronto on 6/30. AFL 2003: Appeared in 10 games, including seven starts, for Carolina after signing with the team as a free agent on February 10...Recorded 12 rushing attempts for 21 yards, one reception for 2 yards, 3.5 tackles and one quarterback hurry...Had three carries for a season-high seven yards at Los Angeles on April 4. AFL 2004: After being signed by New Orleans, 2/21, Bratton appeared in 11 regular season games and one postseason contest for New Orleans, recording 23 rushes for 44 yards with four touchdowns and 15.5 tackles and one forced fumble on defense. www.govoodoo.com /playerbio.cfm?playerid=74   (2221 words)

NFL Trivia 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? Heading into the 1998 season, who are the last two receivers to post 250 receiving yards in a NFL game? 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   (697 words)

Justin Murphy Current De La Salle AFL PLayer Player honors: Norwich Union AFL Rising Star nominee 1998; pre-season premiership side 1999. Has all the hallmarks of a future star after only two years at AFL level. Murphy set to miss half of next season - Sep 25, 1999 www.delafootball.com.au /murphy.htm   (697 words)

ESPN.com - SPORTSBUSINESS - Frozen futures: ESPN, NBC reach NHL deals During the 1998-99 NBA season, which was shortened by a players lockout, NBC made payments to the league even though games were canceled. The deal gives NBC its first major sports league presence since allowing its deals to expire with the NFL (1998), Major League Baseball (2000) and NBA (2002) over the past six years. The last NHL game on NBC was the 1994 All-Star Game, according to Bloomberg, which added that the network hasn't shown any of the four major professional team sports since its contract with the NBA expired in June 2002. sports.espn.go.com /espn/sportsbusiness/news/story?id=1804362   (1015 words)

NFL Trivia 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 1997 season, who was the all-time leader for kickoff returns with 421? 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)

sep7-95969.html The record attendance for an AFL season was established in 1998 with 6,119,164 while the second highest tally is 5,921,134 in 2001. The winner of the National AFL Rising Star Award was chosen by the All Australian selectors: Rod Austin, Kevin Bartlett, Andrew Demetriou, Gerard Healy, Neil Kerley, Chris Mainwaring, Robert Walls and Wayne Jackson (Non-voting chairman). Gale, who was president of the AFL Players Association during the final years of his playing career before resigning at the end of 2002, is one of a list, recently pruned to 20 candidates to replace AFL chief executive-elect, Andrew Demetriou. www.afana.com /netpaper/sep7-95969.html   (703 words)

IIS: Sport's Trivia: Football - October 11, 1998 Who was the first NFL running back to rush for 1,000 + yards in each of his first three seasons? Who was the first player chosen in the first AFL draft? Who holds the League mark for most points in a season? www.iis-sports.com /trivia/1998/fbtriv10_11.html   (124 words)

printfullstory.aspx?storyid=20853 Trigg, whose next AFL opportunity will be announced within the coming weeks, compiled an overall record of 46-45 with the Rampage since being hired prior to their 1998 expansion season. As a quarterback in the AFL, Trigg played with the Detroit Drive during their back-to-back championship seasons in 1989 and 1990, and in 1989 was the top-rated passer in the league. Grand Rapids’ third trip to the playoffs proved to be the charm, as the team from the AFL’s smallest market won ArenaBowl XV on Aug. 19, 2001, in front of a sold-out Van Andel Arena and a national television audience. www.wzzm13.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=20853   (787 words)

MSN Encarta - Football In 1998 the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was instituted to determine the Division I national champion. The Super Bowl is the final contest of the NFL’s season. The first Super Bowl took place in 1967, when there were actually two separate football leagues, the NFL and the American Football League (AFL). encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557873_4/Football.html   (1589 words)

INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL COUNCIL The Tigers stumbled again in 1998 and 1999, missing out on the finals after capitulating in the last game of the season. Under coach Graham Cornes, who played only a handful of games in the VFL, but was considered one of the greatest footballers of his era, the Crows proved competitive in their first season winning 10 matches to miss the finals by only three games. Port Adelaide had already made one bid in 1990 to enter the AFL, but was rebuffed by the local clubs from the South Australian Football League. www.iafc.com.au /g_aflclubs.html   (1589 words)

WXSP.TV Trigg, whose next AFL opportunity will be announced within the coming weeks, compiled an overall record of 46-45 with the Rampage since being hired prior to their 1998 expansion season. Following the Rampage's 3-11 inaugural season in 1998, Trigg's charges posted an 8-6 record in 1999, tying the second-best single-season turnaround in AFL history and earning the franchise's first postseason appearance. Grand Rapids' third trip to the playoffs proved to be the charm, as the team from the AFL's smallest market won ArenaBowl XV on Aug. 19, 2001, in front of a sold-out Van Andel Arena and a national television audience. www.wxsp.tv /x/sports.php?Team=Rampage&SportsStoryID=467   (835 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)

VFL summary The struggling injury plight of their aligned AFL team the Western Bulldogs hasn't helped, though with the personnel this team has had on the field, coupled with the strong infrastructure off it, this team has definitely been a major underachiever throughout season 2003. Bendigo Bombers (6-7-1 26pts) - for a team that had won just six games in their entire VFL history (dating back to 1998), and not having won a game in two years, the effort by the Bombers this season has been nothing short of remarkable. SEASON 2003 in the VFL has already produced many highs and lows, and a month out from the finals it's now time to sit back and assess how each team has gone individually in what has been a stellar season thus far for arguably Australia's premier second tier Australian rules competition. www.australianrules.com.au /2003stories/vflsummary.html   (2494 words)

Kansas City Chiefs Tickets - Chiefs NFL Football - Chiefs Ticket Brokers Stram guided his team to a league-record third AFL title in the 1969 season. Though the Kansas City Chiefs faded from their stellar 2003 season to a 7-9 record in 2004, the Chiefs can still count on solid work from quarterback Trent Green. Kansas City won its second AFL title in 1966 behind wide receiver Otis Taylor; running back Mike Garrett, who was named the league's top rookie; and kicker Mike Mercer, who made four field goals in the AFL Championship Game. www.coasttocoasttickets.com /nfl/chiefs_tickets.shtml   (2494 words)

printfullstory.aspx?storyid=21002 During their inaugural season in Oklahoma City, the Wranglers reached the AFL quarterfinals after battling through the league's toughest schedule. In 32 seasons as a head coach, the Rochester, N.Y., native has compiled an overall record of 244-102-8 (0.701), including a 13-17 mark in two AFL seasons (2000-01) with the defunct Oklahoma Wranglers. In 1998, he helped Portland improve its scoring average by 17 points over the previous season, and his tutelage of rookie Oronde Gadsden helped the wide receiver develop into an All-Arena player and a fixture in the Miami Dolphins’ lineup the last five seasons. www.wzzm13.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=21002   (752 words)

Grand Rapids Rampage - ArenaBowl XV Champions Trigg, whose next AFL opportunity will be announced within the coming weeks, compiled an overall record of 46-45 with the Rampage since being hired prior to their 1998 expansion season. As a quarterback in the AFL, Trigg played with the Detroit Drive during their back-to-back championship seasons in 1989 and 1990, and in 1989 was the top-rated passer in the league. From 1991-1993, he was the offensive coordinator and director of pro scouting for the AFL's Dallas Texans. rampagefootball.com /news?id=755   (762 words)

Article Template NASHVILLE (March 19, 1999) - Two of the top teams in Arena Football will kick off the 1999 AFL pre-season in Columbus, Ohio, when the Nashville Kats take on the New Jersey Red Dogs on April 9 at 7:30 p.m. Nashville's Pat Sperduto was promoted to head coach after Eddie Khayat moved to the general manager's chair during the off-season. The Kats and Red Dogs were playoff teams in 1998, and both squads have their sights set on the ArenaBowl in '99. www.geocities.com /Colosseum/Slope/7545/press990322A.html   (411 words)

L.A. Avengers re-sign kicker Remy Hamilton - OurSports Central Hamilton, 29, began his AFL career in 1998, spending two seasons with the Grand Rapids Rampage. Hamilton, a seven-year AFL veteran who has been with the Avengers for the past three seasons, currently ranks at No. 3 on the AFL's all-time scoring by kickers chart with 877 points. Last season, Hamilton led the AFL in field goal percentage, nailing 14 of his 24 attempts (58 percent). oursportscentral.com /services/releases/?id=3093925   (555 words)

Sports Handicapping - Free Sports Picks - Football and Baseball Picks Granted, given the AFL's new collective bargaining agreement with its players, somewhere between 80 and 90% of Arena players will toil for new teams this season, which means a lot of 2004's Orlando Predators won't feel as linked to tragedy. The guy's got a pretty great track record: in four seasons as head coach from 1998 to 2001, Gruden's teams reached three ArenaBowls and won two of them (1998 and 2000). Head coach Fran Papasedero died in a one-card accident on June 19, just a few days after Orlando lost in the AFL's semifinals to archrival Tampa Bay. www.coversexperts.com /includes/article_ce.asp?ur=934   (555 words)

AllSports (tm) Week 1 Quick Hitters In last season’s regular-season finale, the L.A. pair established a new League record for scoring tandems (384 points), surpassing the mark of 370 set by New Jersey’s ALVIN ASHLEY and LARRY RAY WILLIS in 1998. Needs 32 points to join San Jose’s Barry Wagner (2,160) as the only players in AFL history to score 2,000 career points. Needs 26 receiving yards to become the third player in AFL history to 10,000 receiving yards (Eddie Brown, Barry Wagner). www.allsports.com /cgi-bin/showstory.cgi?story_id=40341   (811 words)

National Rugby League George were the first club to take up the offer, and they merged with the Illawarra Steelers at the end of 1998. The rivalry for this season-opener was fierce, since St George Illawarra were the team Wests defeated in 2005 to gain entry to the Grand Final. Although much structural re-organisation occurred 1995-1998, the NSWRL, ARL, Super League and the NRL are, by convention, considered to be a single continuous competition, from the first competition in 1908 to present. www.vdinosaurs.com /wiki/index.php?title=National_Rugby_League   (1862 words)

The AFL Roundhouse - Chris Jackson Chris Jackson, the Avengers' all-time leading receiver and scorer, returns for his fourth season as an integral part of L.A.'s explosive offense... Jackson signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and was on their practice squad after being released by the Seahawks in 1998. Jackson caught five passes for 89 yards in Washington State's 1998 Rose Bowl victory over Michigan. www.aflroundhouse.com /players/j/jackson_chris_ws.htm   (1862 words)

Philadelphia Soul - Arena Football In his first season with the Grand Rapids Rampage, 1998, Trigg took a 3-11 expansion team to 7-5 in 1999 and directed the Rampage to their first-ever playoff appearance. His third ArenaBowl ring came as the Rampage finished the season 11-3 and claimed a 64-42 victory over the Nashville Kats in the championship. Trigg enjoyed continued success with the Rampage, guiding the AFL¿s smallest market team to an ArenaBowl XV victory in 2001. www.philadelphiasoul.com /team/coaches/michael_trigg   (396 words)

Kansas City Chiefs The Texans/Chiefs franchise was the flagship team of the American Football League, with the most playoff appearances as an AFL team, six (tied with Oakland), the most American Football League Championships (3), and the most Super Bowl appearances, playing in the first Super Bowl, and in the last to be played between League champions. However, the season sputtered by November and the Chiefs lost to the Indianapolis Colts in the playoffs. Since 1992, no NFL team has a better regular season home winning percentage than Kansas City (27-5 (.844) record). www.infoslurp.com /information/Kansas_City_Chiefs   (396 words)

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