Xplosion

Saturday, was a visit to Wings Stadium to watch a Kalamazoo Xplosion arena football game with friends. The lesson learned, get as close to the field as possible! The indoor lighting really made photos difficult to take. We ended up sitting about halfway up the stands in almost complete darkness.

Arena Football is designed to be exciting, this game lived up to the billing. With three minutes to go the score was 42-43 with the visiting Miami Valley Silverbacks in the lead. What made it even worse, the Xplosion were on a twelve game home winning streak and all I could think of was "oh great. us showing up to watch them put curse on them". On a crucial 4th down, the Xplosion stuffed the Silverbacks runner and got the ball back around mid-field. A great QB scramble later and the Xplosion got the ball down around the 10 yard line with under a minute to go. Couple of incomplete passes and a false start later (aka Michigan style of shooting themselves in the foot) and it was an attempt of a field goal for the win.



It's Good!

The Xplosion won 46-43 (they were given 4 points for the FG, I think because of the distance)

Turned out to be a fun change of pace. Even though I'm a die-hard football fan, I think I prefer outside atmosphere of minor league baseball. If I were to go again, I'd definitely try to get closer to the field, mainly to help with the lighting for the pictures. The ticket prices weren't outrageous, but they were higher then what I'd expect to pay. $15 for a Xplosion game or $8 for a Kalamazoo Kings game, not much of a contest. But, then again, I can't remember many baseball games ending 46-43 and ending in the last second.