Enter The Arena (Football League)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- Did you know the Arena Football League came back? Be glad you didn't. It's been a shitshow for the ages. Note how I say insane things relatively casually in this video. That's how bad things have gotten.
It's just past Week Three of Ten, by the way. If they even make it to that point. - กีฬา
This is clearly all Antonio Brown’s fault.
Or 9/11’s fault
Tbh with how the AFL is going you'd think AB was running it.
Thanks President Bush
AB’s generational run continues
Running it from the grave
This is what would happen if Bishop Sycamore were an entire league.
Facts
8:45
such greatness
He said that in the video
Both Lee Hutton and Roy Johnson need to be in a cell
Scariest thing about this video is Tree googles in ALL CAPS
He's owned by Tom Wilson
I save my overlays in all caps and I forget to turn it off sometimes. It's a painful enterprise.
@@UrinatingTree we love an affirmative king
He was just really mad about it
You sure it wasn’t the black dragon dildo he typed in BEFORE he typed in “ARENA FOOTBALL LEAGUE”?
Tree it’s 1:43am
and we are watching
And yet here we are.
@@ExceedinglyAvg I’m shitfaced
Absolute mad man
Tree knows when we're watching the good TH-cam videos
I'm starting to think the NFL's success was partly thanks to all the other alternatives falling flat on their faces
That just tells you how hard running a league actually is. For all it’s many, many faults the almighty Shield is genuinely the best run sports league in America.
I mean the NFL’s success was literally buying out its biggest competitor (the AFL) and combining the two leagues.
All other leagues set up to compete with it have failed (See XFL) and lot of the minor or smaller leagues have failed due to many reasons, from low ticket sales, to mismanagement and sadly for an lot of leagues, Covid.
I think it’s kinda telling no one even remembered this league existed, hell I didn’t know Arena league existed till AB bought a team. Meanwhile it’s competition of the new XFL merged league…
@rontheauraknight9606 sounds like a NHL problem as well with them buying out other leagues to make their own with zero competition
@@rontheauraknight9606the original usfl had a fighting chance to succeed, until they let Donald trump to have all the keys and power to use it.
@@enterprise9001Not only that but NFL teams are household names that are equally as recognizable as the NFL itself and infused with pop culture.
It's another reason why football leagues struggle. It's near impossible for a non-NFL team to be a recognizable brand like a NFL team is.
2:34
Black Dragon... WHAT
Yeah we ain't going to just skip past that like we didn't see it XD
what the F was that? HAHAHAHA
I'm glad you found the easter egg
@@UrinatingTree nah we're not going to ignore this, explain yourself 😂
@@unbrokendredgen4160I thought it'd be funny
I legit feel awful for the Albany Firebirds, be the new Albany indoor football team after AB's antics and then caught in the AFL's antics.
At least albany's nll team is doing good, they can distract themselves from the pain a bit.
Hopefully, if they have stable ownership, they join the IFL, since it's pretty much become the premeir arena league.
@@thezackast2752 The Firewolves going from worst to to the finals is one hell of a story, and they've got a great team with tons of talented youth.
Now if only they could get people to come to their games.
@@thezackast2752That and the University of Albany football team did well last season in the FCS.
Albany Firebirds is actually doing good and had 2 comeback wins.
When I was a child, my parents taught me a simple lesson about money: Don’t spend money you don’t have.
Lee Hutton must never have heard that kind of lesson.
Well that's literally how big companies start, by getting big loans to start up.
@@travmakesbeats3372yep. 2020 and those PPP loans should have taught people that
I don't see businesses or government doing that supposed simple lesson...
The AFL's savor in the back: Jeff Fisher. As much as we complain about him as a coach, he's far better of a manager than anything the AFL has on any level.
I’ll believe that when I see it
Jeff Fisher is the harbinger of a team relocating. I guess the whole AFL will relocate.
Maybe, but it's too little too late at this point.
I highly doubt he can save this; new leadership isn't going to fix the lack of funds, and the reputation of the League is going to be nigh-impossible to rehabilitate after everything that's happened.
Maybe they can finish the season, but I think that's the best-case scenario.
@@u4yk PTSD
I miss when the AFL was good, this AFL was such a meme that tree had to make a video in the middle of the night.
I miss the AFL2, the minor league team.
I second that notion, Kyle. Primarily as an Arizona Rattlers fan. :(
I have a feeling that this version of the Arena Football League won't be getting its own video game.
I miss it too. It was so fun to watch, and it was a legitimate league with a couple of good TV deals. I forget how it all ended but something that strong doesn’t just collapse by accident.
Ah Jeff Fisher. So the league will be around for 7-9 more months.
you know it's bad when Mr. 8-8 has to help
*7-9
He's a decent manager
@@crazyluigi6664in Nashville he’s mister 8-8 lol. That’s what he did most seasons with the titans.
They wanted to break even
As Tree said in the video, make as many jokes as you want, but he's not a bad manager and he's able to keep things stable, and if the new AFL is going to not die stability is desperately needed.
The part that sucks is I watched the week 1 game Tree showed a lot in the video, which was SUPPOSED to be on NFL Network, Orlando vs. Albany. And that game was incredible and looked like the old AFL. And then everything went to hell. I sincerely hope Jeff Fisher can fix this ship, but itll take a minor miracle to do it. He's already started well by having an updated website, having a damn schedule (that still needs work, though), and actually having a 40 minute interview talking about what he wants to do. I can only hope
they are so far behind the 8-ball that MAYBE they can recover.......or just end with a sliver of dignity
Hutton's ability to run the League doesn't speak well to his Lawyer-ing, and makes the system he came from suspect.
I can’t think of a single high profile lawyer who does what he does who doesn’t have myriad ethical issues behind closed doors. Ironic he screwed over hundreds of black people in the process
What a sad end to a really fun league. Went to a million Tampa Bay Storm games as a kid and it was always a great time. The AFL succeeded for years because it was different, fun, and well managed. This league is wearing the name like a skin suit.
I attended plenty of Storm games, too. I witnessed its ArenaBowl win over the Rattlers up close. Even though I never got to catch any of the game balls, I always had fun win or lose. I stayed at Amalie Arena after an ugly loss to the Predators to see the late Coolio in a postgame concert one night.
The AAF can't believe this league launch was poorly planned and financially underfunded.
It's a shame about the AAF. The announcers were tolerable, but they put everything in the hands of one idiot.
At least the AAF was better planned than the new Arena Football Leaguer ever was or will be.
I thought that no one would ever top the World Football League when it comes to total ineptitude.
But I stand corrected, considering that the AAF were struggling to play their players after Week 2 and now this disaster. Gary Davidson doesn't look so bad now. 😂
@@derekcabanaw1789 I mean, the new Arena Football League is even more incompetent than these two in terms of management and organization.
@@nathanmalik7056 Absolutely. When JaguarGator9 first mention this and then researching this, it is the biggest trainwreck I've ever seen as far as sports leagues.
The sad thing is that there are already established leagues - the IFL and CIF have reasonably stable businesses, and the NAL has grown pretty well.
This con makes indoor football look SO bad.
The CIF merged with this league
@@Z64sports the cif merged with the nal because both leagues lost a few teams to this one.
It doesn't seem like the other leagues are happy about it. A couple weeks ago, the Arena League found it necessary to make a Facebook post about the necessity of responsibility of running a football league and how careful they were to spend two years planning a league of four teams.
@@cameronlapage7386 Why would they be? Here's this johnny-come-lately lecturing THEM!? That's not right.
Joe McClendon & soccerplex leagues still exist 🤷🏿♂️
AB was bad last year but still this is worse
This league makes the UFL look like the NFL.
UFL is pretty well structured, also we should give more credit to the IFL and the NAL
Anytime, Anyplace, Any Halo. 1v1, or the steelers have a losing season.
Really? I must have missed something. I'm curious to know when he talked about this.
Is his Whopper baby born?
Ayooooooo! The Yinzer is a father? Since when?
Uh wait did I miss a joke somewhere.
What???? His Canadian winner actually works? We need a photo of the Sapling.
Sad thing is the Albany Firebirds are doing amazing with crowds and stuff. Arena football was once a mecha for the city in the 90s and it still can be.
They'd be welcome in the IFL. The Rattlers and Barnstomers are there. Would be nice to get some of the band back together. Predators, you're welcome to come, too.
@@danielnaylor3434I’ll bet the IFL would be more then welcome to let them in. And add Chicago while you’re at it.
@@danielnaylor3434 That would be great. The IFL needs more east coast teams
@@danielnaylor3434 I hope someone revives the Storm for an IFL entry. The Sharks could use a franchise closer to them for logistical purposes.
@@marcus813 Oh, God, yes! One of the original four teams, the most successful, longest lasting team in the AFL. It would be great to see them return. And, yeah, teams like Jacksonville and Massachusetts are all on an island out there in the east. Giving them Tampa and Orlando to play, as well as Albany up in the northeast would be a great move. I really hope we see that happen. Of course, they'd be sharing a name with the Sioux Falls Storm...and I kind of like that organization. Been around awhile, too, and I don't want them to relocate or change their name.
If the Firebirds, Predators, and Kats hope to survive much longer they'll jump ship to another league.
IFL ideally. But maybe the NAL would work out
The fact that they band together to replace Hutton makes me think they felt that they have dug themselves a hole so deep it'll be more shameful for them to get out of it now so they're sticking it out for their pride's sake
Firebirds and predators will probably go back to the NAL.
@@farhanatashiga3721 other indoor leagues are already mid season so jumping ship THIS season was out of the question. I expect they'll find new homes next season.
@@roryh2241 The Preds came from the NAL. Which, to be fair, was collapsing at the end of last season. There's only one team in the NAL in 2024 that was there in 2023. Two jumped to the AFL, and five dissolved (two of them mid-season). Of course, while they were able to get five more teams, one has already dissolved this season, so the Preds may still only be in a slightly worse situation this season.
The problem is, minor arena leagues appear to be in big trouble right now. CIF died after 2023. NAL probably should have, and might yet. The IFL might indeed be the only option. Which would make sense for the Preds, Kats, and Firebirds, since they took the Sharks and Gunslingers.
They turned Bishop Sycamore into a football league
You just repeated the joke he said in the video
For a man that started life as a straight up shitposter, I commend Tree for becoming a legitimately important voice in sports journalism. Respect.
He's one of the wittiest and funniest sports TH-camrs around.
Over the last few years, it’s become clear that he will not stand for people’s livelihoods legitimately being affected by shoddy management and ownership. His stadium video also had a surprisingly nuanced knowledge of economics.
@@raineob4996 He's pretty much a great sports TH-camr and I enjoy his analysis/humor. The Lolcow videos were the first pieces of UrinatingTree content I discovered.
"What if Bishop Sycamore was up-scaled to a league"
Oh my god lmao
Todd Tryon, the IFL is about to get a GARGANTUAN amount of new fans because of this.
Or they're gonna be unfairly hurt by just being associated with the AFL by means of being the same sport.
Already got more fans in Iowa.
To be honest, the late 90s-mid 2000s were the peak years of Arena Football.
Games (up to and including the Arena Bowl) were being aired on ESPN, the league was growing, they even had two pretty good video games at that.
And then it just went belly-up. Indoor gridiron just seems to be cursed to be marginalized.
@@thehermitwizard I still play the original EA Sports Arena Football game to this day. It is indeed lots of fun.
How did it go bankrupt in the late 2000s??
@@Brandon-qd2lblack of money and economic downturn
@@thehermitwizard It's a damn shame, too! It really felt like a perfect alternative to the NFL for the spring for us!
I love these vids. Learning about mass corruption and scams within the sporting world is always fascinating.
The old Philadelphia Soul still has their championship banners hanging up at Wells Fargo center.
I miss that version of the Soul, a lot of fond memories of them coming down to my hometown of Wildwood, NJ to celebrate those championships that are still hanging up at Wells Fargo Center
As they should
It’s OK, someone still has the old Arena Bowl trophy. The Sabercats kept it after they folded lol!
I'm assuming I wasn't the only person who clicked on this video thinking Tree was just trolling the old AFL, not having the slightest idea they rebooted the league.
People seem to think the phrase "Football brings money" means they don't need any long term or back up plans
This is beyond sad. My first season tickets I have was for the Milwaukee Mustangs in the 2000s. I was a fun time. I love arena football back in the ESPN2 days. Now looking at this now, it's embarrassing, sad, anger, and making me smh.
The Arizona Rattlers were my team, easily! At least once they came back, they were wise to jump ship and leave for the IFL.
Well at least you have the IFL, Ik it’s not the same but we all know that the AFL is now owned by AB and Bishop Sycamore
I'm also enjoyed AFL success as a San Jose Sabercats fan.
But the AFL is in shambles after C. David Baker retired as AFL Commissioner.
I'm glad that I'm watching arena/indoor football again with the Indoor Football League and I'm a Bay Area Panthers fan.
Watch the IFL/NAL. Theyre nowhere as big as the AFL used to be but its still pretty fun. The IFL streams on YT every weekend. Idk about the NAL since the merged
The NAL also has a YT channel, but I'm not sure about live streams.
Also a longtime fan from the ESPN2 days: I've got a few games on VHS somewhere. Ended up going to a few Buffalo Destroyers games in college.
Message to the Arena Football League: THIS isn't 2000-2001 anymore!
Meanwhile the Omaha Beef and the National Arena League still exist
And haven’t lost a match in over a year. Impressive. They need to move to the IFL
IFL is around and still good.
As an Albany arena fan I take issue with the idea that we "just can't win". Yes, the Empire team got screwed over by AB last year, but that's distant memory now. Every other season before and after that has actually been wildly successful here. No matter what league we played in, the teams were effing awesome. Excluding 2023, the Albany teams won championships in 3 out of 4 seasons, and we're off to another great start this year at 2-0. Our current ownership with the Firebirds is amazing, and I have no doubt we'll finish the season with the new, smaller league of successful teams. Probably with another Arenabowl win held here in Albany. When AB isn't involved, all we do is win. This season is going really well for us so far. :)
Arena football gets outshadowed by college football here in Iowa
And the AFL just forced the Oregon Black Bears to return so that the league wouldn’t go bankrupt 😂😂
AB started a movement
From the depths of Hell…
Generational run
A bowel one
Three teams in my state and I never heard of this. Damn that’s rough 🤣
Imagine my utter shock when I saw that Salina had a professional sports team. Or that anyone has ever even heard of Salina outside of sustainable agriculture nerds
Late upload W. All hail the Tree
Silence of the Lambs! OMG! I almost spit my beer out when I saw that! Well done!
The 😭emote was that for me.
I've been watching the whole story on Twitter and this desreves to be made as a video for all the shitshow it has been placed
It feels wildly incomplete, only because shit's changing from week to week.
Looking forward to the update in a few months.
It’s 2AM. Do you know where your favorite shitposting sports TH-camr is?
Bishop Sycamore: we were the biggest screw up in football history
AFL 3.0: Hold my beer
Never would I think in all my years urinating tree would mention my arena football team yes I play for the Dallas falcons
Only reason I know this rebirth was Jeff Fisher promoting the Nashville team during a Nashville Predators game
God, I remember watching the hell out of the Arena League, and the games were so fun! I was a SaberCats fan through and through because they won the Arena Bowl, which was the first game I ever watched. Sad how far the league fell, at one point there were literally just 3 teams.
Arizona Rattlers fan for me. At least they were smart enough to leave them and go to the IFL instead. Granted, that league needs more recognition, but still!
@@crazyluigi6664 Funny, but this AFL disaster has gotten me to watch more of the IFL.
Long live cat scratch fever. I got to meet Darren Arbet last year. He was sort of the coach/GM of the IFL Panthers before he got swept under the rug. Great turnaround season they had last year.
@@gregster61me too
Yeah it's brutal right now
As a resident of the Albany area, I was expecting at least something decent after the old AFL caved in and Antonio Brown ruined my dreams yet again of a decent Albany team. Should've realized third times aren't the charm and to look at bios more often. Thanks to you I can sit back and laugh/cry as what is a relic of the old Albany Firebirds waits for competent ownership to bring the AFL to it's proper state, even then this is far from over. See you for an RE: update in 6 months!
This is like the Fyre Festival of professional sports
"Rich people can smell a bad deal from a mile away."
Not in Nevada!
The AFL is like if AB somehow ran his own league, Jesus Mary and Joseph.
A Tree video at 10:45 at night when I was literally about to go to sleep? Sign me up!
i really wish you did a video about the other AFLs because for one reason and one reason only:
for the 2010s revival, the LA team was owned by Gene Simmons and was themed to KISS. if you bought season tickets they also gave you free tickets for a KISS concert.
This video is the AFL’s biggest marketing breakthrough since it’s inception.
why are you all complaining? it's 2:40pm while i'm watching this :) (i live in the Philippines)
I was thinking to myself: "This AFL chaos needs the UrinatingTree treatment!" There are miracles!
AAF: there can't be a failed league worse than me
2024 AFL: hold my beer
Mmmmmm loving those Genesis roots with Launch Base Zone there, Tree.
I love hearing the Sonic music in these vids; every time Launch Base or Carnival Night start playing, I grin like a madman
@@silvergeneralv2 This, but also the Streets of Rage 2 tracks.
Not to mention 4:41.
And here I thought the AAF ownership were lolcows. This takes the cake
This just makes the quick success of All Elite Wrestling, "the most successful competitive league since the AFL pre-merger," all the more amazing to me.
There are rea$on$ for that
The people behind that were a lot savvier than the people behind AFL 3.0. What's now Warner Bros. Discovery has been happy to stick with AEW for the promotion's entire existence up to this point for a reason.
AEW isn’t really doing as good as they were when they first came onto the seen. The reason why AEW was hot from 2019-2021 was because 1. It was a new wrestling company and 2. WWE was going to shit because of Vince. Now Vince isn’t in charge anymore and WWE has rebounded greatly and AEW is struggling .
Tony Khan is now overpaying wrestlers like Sasha Banks and Riho even though they barely wrestle, The whole CM Punk debacle backfired tremendously and now AEW crowds are only 1/3 full and the ratings have plummeted. Before they used to bring in 850k- 1 million. Now they bring up 650k to 750k. The only reason why the ratings are high in the first hour is because of the Big Bang Theory. In short AEW had a chance to capitalize on the WWE dark ages and they have failed tremendously. It’s only a matter of time before Shad pulls the plug on this project
@@vince11harris They beat absolutely everything in the ratings that isn't the NBA or NHL playoffs.
The last time ANYTHING that wasn't them beat AEW Dynamite was January 31 (a Real Housewives episode).
Shahid Khan was just PART OF a storyline.
"only a matter of time before Shad pulls the plug"
@@coldsnap5742 numbers don’t lie my friend 🤷🏾♂️. The viewer ratings have been plummeting. The weekly show stadiums are barely half full. It’s only a matter of time
As a lifelong Kansas resident, I had NO clue we had three AFL teams
The state of Arizona has three IFL teams themselves (including the Arizona Rattlers), so in a sense, I can relate there.
One of them is the old Dodge City Law, never heard of the other two and I live in Wichita.
I just went to my first Arena Football game in Omaha. The team there, the Omaha Beef, puts on a real good and professional show and plays good football. Such a shame that this version of the AFL is so useless. Good thing the Beef aren’t in this joke of a league
They need to move the IFL
Two Words: Corporate Scam
Well done tree! Also, there is a special place in hell for Lee Hutton III for suckering all these players, coaches, and support staff into this.
The UFL is a lot of fun to watch...
UFL ----- Ultimate Fun League
I love it when Tree releases a video at 2am.
How does a commissioner just completely fuck off....
I would imagine, it’s a desperate attempt to avoid a lawsuit..
Being someone who lives in Odessa and watches the desert hawks, we our very proud of our arena teams. All the way back to when we were the Odessa Roughnecks. Having the NAL being the only issue that we had while in the AFL and so far undefeated, we’re chugging along well
After following the twitter thread I knew this would be a worthwhile vid.
As soon as "Folded teams contune to somehow play their games" came up, I knew we were in for something magical.
I was looking forwards to the revival of the AFL, I fell in love with the sport back when the Kansas City Brigade still existed. I hope that this doesn't kill the sport as a whole, but at least there are some smaller leagues that do exist. so If anyone else is a fan of arena football, please make sure you support a local team if you have one near you.
The AFL3.0, the Bishop Sycamore of Football leagues
It sucks that AFL 3.0 is dragging the entire sport of indoor football down with it. Indoor football is a much better spectacle than the NFL has been for years, yet there's always shady shit going on with it. Even by indoor standards, though, this is diabolical. If this league folds outright, hopefully the stable teams end up finding homes in the IFL or NAL.
Amen.
The urinatingtree investigation report!!!
I’m from Iowa and I had no idea we even had a team until they announced they were shutting down. Poor management must be contagious in this “league”.
Two technically,you had the Rampage of AFL. But IFL has Kurt Warner's old stomping grounds, the Iowa Barnstormers.
@@supersasukemaniacof course, everyone knows the Barnstormers. I’m talking about the new team that never was
Personally, I think Hutton might've been a really sketch attorney before launching the AFL. A lot of lawyers are crooks who use being a lawyer to lend a thin veneer of respectability. Great vid Tree!!
Thank u tree we appreciate ur hard work bro love your content especially during football offseason love all your take especially takes on baseball and hockey.
I’m just hoping the Wichita Regulators are able to jump ship to the IFL.
🎉. Yes. I love the owner and hopefully it won't fold like the Force. 🤞
Only 3.0 huh? Feels like the AFL has been restarted more times that than tbh
Had the absolute pleasure of actually attending the Louisiana voodoo versus Philadelphia soul game. I couldn't believe what I was witnessing. The arena padding falling every 5 seconds and stopping play, the different size field goal post, it costing $5 to get in but $8 for a beer, the fact that the soul were clearly dramatically unprepared for the situation and you could actually hear the coaches asking other coaches what their names were. The 12-year-old flag football game at halftime was more convincing and entertaining than the league game.
The return of the trademark drunken French sailor rants by Steve "Urinating Tree" Linkowski who trashed another athletic dumpster fire
As someone who lives near an AFL team (Washington Wolfpack) & has tickets to a game in a few weeks, I just hope the league lasts long enough for me to attend this game. If the Wolfpack are somehow able to finish out the season, I strongly encourage them to get the heck out of the AFL & join the IFL which is much more stable.
I'm impressed there was that much video of AFL play to stitch together
The indoor Bishop Sycamore, the league.
Living southwest Louisiana, I had bad vibes about this when it was announced the Voodoo were leaving Lake Charles to go to Lafayette one week before the season started. The arena chosen, Blackham Coliseum, isn’t used for much. The university-owned Cajundome would have been a much preferable venue and that has hosted indoor football in the past (teams in AF2 and SIFL). It’s a shame, because I think a team with a competent ownership and league would do well down here.
If the Chicago Rush ever come back, I'd hope they avoid the Arena League like the plague. Go virtualy anywhere else as the real AFL died ages ago.
Just when I think that what AB did to the Empire was the worst thing to happen to arena football, I learn about this.
Good Lord, your deep dive videos are so good and so funny and so informative! God bless!
Oh man it’s so bad we have to bring the Rams coach we all want to forget to save the league.
This man was better off trying to invest all that time and energy into a new AFL videogame!
Shades of XFL 2001
That was hilarious how they had Opie and Anthony open the show. The XFL had way more behind it then this it seems.
The Arena Football League went downhill after C. David Baker retired as AFL Commissioner after the 2008 season.
It's all about the Indoor Football League.
I’m sorry, adding that scene in The Silence of the Lambs made me bust out laughing.
Last time I was here this early the AFL still existed
0:36 For the record, I do not associate myself with this lolcow at all. Men With Plans, LLC are a fine organization and we do not partake in business dealings with frauds.
It is stunning this much ineptitude could come together to form a league in the first place.
This feels like an elaborate, cursed April Fools joke. I'm struggling to comprehend it all.
This revival of the Arena Football League makes the World Football League from the 70s look more like the American Football League from the 60s.
Well there goes Arena Football gone again
Gotta love the Sonic 3 & Knuckles music/SFX being used here 😆
I've been following your coverage on Twitter of this and I was eagerly awaiting this video, thank you Tree!
I wish I could follow his coverage like it was before the Musk days. Thanks for limiting viewership to non-users and making a timeline become non-chronological when we can view users, Elon! Ya fucking dick! :|