Jill Arrington: Ha! Made You Look!
Dan Ryan
Thursday April 26, 2001
That`s the plan, anyway. Why the tease? Got my first peek at the page views and noticed one fact: Any article featuring Jill Arrington, who, by the way, will be on the cover of this week's TV Guide (Take that, Charliy Nash! Thanks to the desk for the update... [why not? -Ed]), gets at least three times the traffic... Anyhow...
The best player you haven’t heard of yet is the Predators’ new OS, Siaha Burley. Steve Papin-type speed and great hands, heck, he used to catch Daunte Culpepper passes at UCF, which leads us to the present problem... “We don’t have anyone who can get him the ball on a consistent basis,” lamented Preds coach Jay Gruden... What’s Stevie Thomas doing in New Jersey of all places? Forget Gladiators, call it Storm alumni north... Got a feeling that Carolina will make the Final Four, and I’m not talking five hoopsters from Chapel Hill... Bobcats beating the Preds didn’t surprise me that much, neither would a victory over the Kats, not to say I’d bet the mortgage. Let’s take that one step at a time.
Arenafan’s Joe Kauffman and I hung out at the Storm game Saturday. Here`s the 411: Nashville QB Andy Kelly breaks the league all-time career touchdown passes record. Pretty big deal, right? Marino-level accomplishment. Did Paul Porter make an ear-drum blasting proclamation? Is Kelly`s jersey and the game ball heading to Des Moines or wherever the Hall of Fame is being stored?...
Overheard on answering machines this week No. 1: This message is for Billy McGehee. Hey Billy, Dave Baker here. Congratulations on the Nashville ownership. Don`t even think about a hot tub. Later.
It was Hawaiian night at TD Waterhouse Center Friday. Yes, you could have been lei-d by a Predator cheerleader. Of course I know that`s not very original, but I`m testing my limits with the copy editors... [Sigh. –ed]
We oughta adopt the Houston Thunderbears as our home team... For those of you lamenting the death of rivals.com, here`s a tidbit, they wanted me to do their Arena Football site as a competitor to this one... Alas, there was no way I could compete with Kevmo and company (how`s that for suck up? Do I get the golf shirt now?) [Sigh. –ed]
 There. Even a picture of Jill Arrington. The perfect article. Image courtesy of TNN |
The folks at Predator Entertainment are having at lot of fun with their AF2 dealings, especially Peoria. In fact, they thought about putting a team in the TD Waterhouse Centre as a G-rated compliment to "The Jungle" Uh, guys, show the parent team a little love...
Overheard on answering machines this week No. 2: Hi Jay, this is Jon. Yeah, yeah, I remember that time you let me use your car and I appreciate it. But come on, Al Davis would kill me if I let you borrow my taxi squad...
Remember last month when I published a story that included the line: “Braniff Bonaventure sounds like an airline promotion”. Welp, a short time later in the Orlando Sentinel, legendary sportswriter Jerry Greene says something along the lines of “The Orlando Predators have an airline promotion at quarterback. Fly our Braniff Bonaventure!” No, I’m not asking for an apology [I already gave Jerry his plane back] it’s actually the nicest thing a sportswriter of his stature (figuratively) has ever done for me... I`m only gonna say this once so the folks in Chicago don`t get cocky: Arenafootball.com rocks...
All the good thoughts go out to Bobcats VP Denny Petro, who just got out of the hospital after giving all of us a scare. His bombastic voice will still be heard on the PA, but he’s scaling back his duties to recover... and finally, what are we going to deal with all the people who included Jill Arrington on their AFL fantasy team...
Dan Ryan has been involved with all forms of arena football since 1988, including writing for ArenaFan when Joe Kauffman and Tim Capper aren’t killing his columns because they don’t get his jokes or perspective. His day job is at Bethune-Cookman University, which has produced both an NFL Hall of Famer (Larry Little) and an Arena Football Hall of Famer (Stevie Thomas) and his hobby is tracking how many f-bombs Adam Markowitz drops in the chat room on game nights.
