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[oipheroes]

The Armor have played there last two games on the road at Harrisburg and Carolina but there has not been a game write up from either contest. The Speed has a short blurb on their website about the Armor game but besides the stats you would never know D.C and Harrisburg played. I can understand local media outlets (home and away cities) not covering the action but the lack of updates on some team’s websites amazes me.

[lionsroar]

The league should make it mandatory for every team to have pre and post game articles. Some teams act like they're the only ones that need to know what happened before and after a game.

My big question to them would be why do you not inform the people so they can properly follow your team that you so desperatly need people to follow?

........Just makes no sense!

[JJ]

I'm with you guys. A lot of these teams think that just because you can get a spot in this league, it means that you will succeed and stay afloat. Absolutely not true. Successful teams have to build up starting with the right approach. if there were a handbook called "creating a successful franchise," rule #1 would be - Build your fan base!!! (either through advertising, game writeups, etc.) If you don't get people excited about the game it doesn't matter how well or poorly your team does, you will not be here next year... It really is sad to see how much turnover there is in this league, do it right or don't do it at all...

[dagr814ever]

FORCE folks state it is expensive to advertise. However, to not advertise and lose your team sounds even more expensive to me.

The game has got to be fun, this is minor league ball and the players change too fast to depend on players building the base for you as management. Advertising the fun associated with the game has to be priority #1 so people will want to come see.

[lionsroar]

It's true that a lot of players move on quickly. In Columbus the Lions have been fortunate to keep together a Good core of guys (Damian 'NIGHT HAWK' Daniels, Justen Rivers, Tirone Morris & Monreko Crittenden have been there since the Lions have come into existence. Heck I even Think Darin Damron has had stints with us all three years(not sure). A lot of these guys are now in their second year with the Lions also.

....My point here is I think it is each teams responsibilty to have these articles for the purpose of their players exposure which is part of the promise of the 'AIFA'. They are in existence to give these players that second shot at playing professional football and they should be treated as such (professionals). Anyone who gets paid to play is a professional. While it may not be to the extent of pay as other major leagues it should conduct itself as if it was for the sake of the players, communities and fans involved.


We're all making good points here. Keep 'em coming

[slocoma]

There are cheap ways to advertise. The first should be their web site. You can get hosting for $10 or less a month and it costs nothing to update it regularly.

[oipheroes]

May 13, 2009 7:30:34 GMT -5 slocoma said:

There are cheap ways to advertise. The first should be their web site. You can get hosting for $10 or less a month and it costs nothing to update it regularly.

Amen, the Armor’s web-site has been a joke all season long. During there last home stand they did a pretty good job on updates but beyond that it has been horrendous. Heck, they still don’t have a 25 man roster available on the web-site.

[JJ]

just as a question... how many teams are actually making a profit??? Unless you've been around to establish a fan base I can't imagine coming out on top? anybody have any guesses?

[lionsroar]

My guess would be none. Maybe any team that is coming close to selling half their seats or more at each home game is breaking even but is anyone filling up atleast half or more of their venue's at their home games?

........Maybe Wyoming and Reading. Not sure though. I could be totally off base but thats how I feel about it at this point. Columbus suffers in my opinion from having a very nice big venue and no close teams to play. Not many Traveling fans come through here. The Force is the closest team now and they are 3 1/2 to 4 hours away depending on traffic and road construction delays.

[d'oh!]

I've seen The Sovereign Center (Reading) list anywhere from 6,800-7,200 as capacity. Let's split the difference and call it 7,000 for the sake of this argument. For the 5 home games they are averaging 3725. So that's slightly more than half.