Arena Football-Back To Basics
The most interesting fact about arena football is the fact it is played in an arena without numerous clock stoppages. While most football leagues need vast volumes of arena space in order to conduct their games, arena football is still played indoors on a basketball-court sized field. This sport was officially launched in 1987. This was after a man named Jim Foster - a former executive of both the Nation Football League and United States Football League - attended an indoor soccer game at Madison Square Garden in 1981 and developed the basic rules of the sport of arena football. Arena football is played on a field length that is ideally fifty yards long with eight-yard end zones. Each team fields eight men from a twenty man active roster. Except for the quarterback, each man plays both defense and offense. The ball is kicked from the goal line. The team with the ball has four downs to gain ten yards or score. Punting in arena football is illegal. Score keeping is the same as the NFL with an additional drop kick field goal worth four points. The clock stoppages in arena football are minimal compared to NFL games. The clock stops for out of bounds plays or incomplete passes only in the last minute of each half or due to penalties,
A: Some of the current teams who play arena football for the National Conference eastern and southern divisions are the New York Dragons, Dallas Desperados, Georgia Force, and the Austin Wranglers. American Conference western and central divisions are comprised of arena football teams named the Colorado Crush, Arizona Rattlers and the Chicago Rush.