Tonight at 8:30 Eastern on ESPN2, the Chicago Rush visit the Dallas Desperados. That probably means nothing to you. Try as it might, Arena Football has not attracted anywhere near the fan attention it thought it would when the league and ESPN got into bed together. But Peter King of SI.com says tonight is the night to watch:
it might be worth a few minutes tonight, if you can tear yourself away from Cavs-Nets or Marlins-Pirates, to catch a few snaps of the Chicago-Dallas Arena game. It's the best two teams in the league (they're a combined 17-2), and there's an intriguing player in the game -- 6-3, 220-pound Chicago receiver Bobby Sippio, who might engender a small bidding war (very small) between NFL teams at the end of the Arena season in July. He's a big receiver, obviously, not just the typical Arena smurf, and he's on pace to catch 71 touchdowns. I have no idea what that means in the real world, but in Arenaball, it'd be an all-time record.
I have no idea what it means in the real world, either, nor do I have any idea what it means that the guy in the picture, Desperados quarterback Clint Dolezel, has thrown more than 800 touchdown passes in his Arena Football career.
But if you're desperate for some football action, well, tonight will give you something sort of resembling football.
