Arena Football: It's Baaaaaaack!!

by Hans Petersen on Mar 12, 2011 2:00 PM CST

New Orleans VooDoo Fever - Catch It!

Honk if You Love the VooDoo

I'm Stuck on Stingley*

My Second Home is a Tomb in the St. Louis Cemetery

I Wanna Have Wimprine's Love Child**

These are just a few of the marketing slogans/fan messages bandied about or found on signs, t-shirts, bumper stickers, banners, etc., around New Orleans as the official Rebirth of the New Orleans VooDoo is upon us.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, we have exciting, high-octane Arena F****** Football Action returning as the NFLPA and football as we know it burn to the ground.

Dave's Saturday Satire fired us up this morning, but the truth is the VooDoo actually played their first game of the 2011 season last night. Make the jump to climb into the arena of Arena Football, CSC style!

* - Derek Stingley is the head coach.

** - Danny Wimprine is the starting QB.

Arena football may be all we have to fill the huge hole that the NFL's hopefully temporary demise has left in in our lives. In order to help you figure out if you can get into it or not, I'm presenting you with some links to get the 4-1-1 on the A-F-L.

First, you can learn more about the history of Arena football by going here.

The Arena Football League's home page is here.

NOLA.com's VooDoo page is here.

NOLA.com's coverage of last night's 2011 season opener is here.

I'd be interested to read about what everyone thinks of Arena Football and/or the VooDoo in the comment section below.

And be sure to come back later on this evening to get all your links and tweets on the Saints, the NFL, and the Labor Impasse/Chasm/Fjord/Iceberg the size of the Hindenberg.

Poll

Will you follow the New Orleans VooDoo and/or Arena Football?

Hells, yeah!! I've already gotten my VooDoo tattoo.

19 votes

I'll give it a shot, but I'm not promising anything.

33 votes

No way, no how. You'll have to rig me up in one of those 'Clockwork Orange' rehab chairs to get me to watch it.

8 votes

Arena football - isn't that just the MISL? Marcel Feenstra is my Drew Brees.

2 votes

I plan to fill the void left in my life by the NFL with bacon cheeseburgers.

25 votes

Other.

2 votes

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Comments

Forget the Voodoo. We should turn this place into a politics blog until they sign a CBA. What? I thought the idea was page hits.

I changed the lock on my front door so you can't see me anymore

by stujo4 on Mar 12, 2011 2:02 PM CST reply actions

I'm anti-rec'ing myself

After last night’s discussions, I don’t have the patience or the wherewithal to…. Never mind. Just anti-rec.

I changed the lock on my front door so you can't see me anymore

by stujo4 on Mar 12, 2011 2:03 PM CST up reply actions

-1 as well

by GRlZZ on Mar 12, 2011 8:35 PM CST up reply actions

I watched the Pittsburgh Power debut, all the way to the pick-six that ended the game in overtime.

Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Jack Butler, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene, Curtis Martin, Willie Roaf, Andre Reed and Jerry Kramer
"Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie." Mordred Deschain
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by WVPiratesfan on Mar 12, 2011 2:07 PM CST reply actions

It's like comparing NASCAR and Go-Carts.

Nah. I’ll watch reruns of Ozzie and Harriet

Fat, dumb, and happy. Hell, two out of three ain't bad!

I Want To Die In My Sleep Like My Grandpa – Not Screaming and Yelling Like His Passengers.

by Just 'Nother Day on Mar 12, 2011 5:12 PM CST reply actions

You safe over there?

In Breesus' name we play

by Breesus Christ Superstar on Mar 13, 2011 9:19 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions

Double that Ole Top

Whats Okinawa like?,its far from epicenter but… been thinking about u.

You think you know, and you don't know, and you never, ever will.-Jim Mora Sr.
Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica-Jim Halpert
My three best qualities? Hard worker, Alpha male, Jackhammer- Dwight K. Shrutte
Creed :It's pronounced "Colonel", the highest rank in the military. Andy: No, it's pronounced "Cornell" the highest rank in the Ivy League.

by metryman on Mar 14, 2011 1:18 AM CDT up reply actions

Hmmm

When the Voodoo play in the arena its the Graveyard. When the Hornets play its the Hive. The Superdome needs a cool nickname. Arena has TWO! Superdome has what…‘The Dome’ ? It needs something flashier.

by sXe hXc AMF on Mar 12, 2011 6:31 PM CST reply actions

The Holy Land?

by GRlZZ on Mar 12, 2011 8:42 PM CST up reply actions

The Promised Land?

Happiness is a warm blanket.

by Hans Petersen on Mar 12, 2011 8:56 PM CST up reply actions

we should do a superdome nickname contest for the Saints

by GRlZZ on Mar 12, 2011 8:42 PM CST up reply actions

Judgement Dome

Stupid Llamas!.

by otisnixon'sparty on Mar 12, 2011 11:17 PM CST up reply actions

"The House That Drew Built"

(Too New Yorkey?)

Fat, dumb, and happy. Hell, two out of three ain't bad!

I Want To Die In My Sleep Like My Grandpa – Not Screaming and Yelling Like His Passengers.

by Just 'Nother Day on Mar 18, 2011 7:11 PM CDT up reply actions

dudes...

DirtyCoast gave it one already with that shirt that has an illustration of the superdome and under the pic it says “CHURCH” Now that goes hard!

"Obstacles can not crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." -Leonardo DaVinci

by BigCountryLV on Mar 12, 2011 11:51 PM CST via mobile reply actions

For those who weren’t aware, VooDoo head coach Derek Stingley is the son of former Patriots WR Darryl Stingley, who was left paralyzed following a hit by Raiders’ All-Pro safety Jack Tatum during a 1978 exhibition game. The elder Stingley spent the better part of 28 years as a quadriplegic due to the spinal injuries he sustained, before passing away in 2007.

"I was not on the boat in question" -Darren Sharper

by coldpizza on Mar 13, 2011 6:31 AM CST reply actions

I went to the post-Katrena opener

Arena was packed, had a great time, Sean Payton was there w/son in the front row and he signed auto-graphs most of the first half. People just kept handing him stuff, Voodoo programs, Saints hats, whatever. He was a good sport, but he went up to the Benson suite at halftime and stayed. The Voodoo has the best Logo/mascot/uni’s in the league.imo.

by metryman on Mar 14, 2011 1:52 AM CDT reply actions