Tryouts Weekend!

This week the Tulsa Talons will be having tryouts for both players and cheerleaders.

The Talons Cheer squad will start tryouts on Saturday with finals on Sunday. I am partially invested as I have a friend trying out who is already an Ice Girl for the Tulsa Oilers. You can get all the info here:

On Sunday Talons Football will also be having tryouts. For those

interested here is the tryout info:

Tryout Date/Time:February 28th 8:15 am registration starts

Tryout will go from 8:30am - 10am

Building/Location:

Soccer City Tulsa
5817 S. 118th E. Ave
Tulsa, OK 74146
(East of Garnett a half a mile on 61st Street)

Phone Contact: 918.294.1000
Email Contact: allner@tulsatalons.com

Cost: $60.00

Talons Central Power Rankings 2/24/2010

While the league is still finishing tryouts for the 2010 season Arena Fan has started their interactive ranking poll. As it stands now 16 people have voted and the teams are ranked as such:

1. Dallas Vigilantes

2. Arizona Rattlers

3. Chicago Rush

4. Spokane Shock

5. Orlando Predators

6. Cleveland Gladiators

7. Milwaukee Iron

8. Tampa Bay Storm

9. Jacksonville Sharks

10. Alabama Vipers

11. Tulsa Talons

12. Iowa Barnstormers

13. Utah Blaze

14. OKC Yard Dawgz

15. Bossier-Shreveport Battlewings

This poll however does not have very many votes yet. I would encourage everyone to go to their site and vote. It seems Dallas is getting a huge boost from being in a conference with 3 former AF2 teams, including the Tulsa Talons.

My Pre-Tryouts Power Rankings are as follows:

1. Chicago Rush

2. Cleveland Gladiators

3. Dallas Vigilantes

4. Spokane Shock

5. Jacksonville Sharks

6. Tulsa Talons

7. Tampa Bay Storm

8. Orlando Predators

9. Iowa Barnstormers

10. Alabama Vipers

11. Arizona Rattlers

12. Bossier-Shreveport Battlewings

13. Utah Blaze

14. OKC Yard Dawgz

15. Milwaukee Iron

Chicago was probably the best team of the AFL's last season that is returning to this new AFL. Dallas, while having the best record in the 2008 AFL season, will hurt to replace quarterback Clint Dolezel. Jacksonville gains from picking up veteran quarterback Aaron Garcia; who had put up amazing numbers in the last decade as a part of the New York Dragons. Spokane and Tulsa, being the two best teams of the AF2 coming to the AFL, have to be given respect against the AFL teams.

YouTube Tuesday - February 23rd, 2010

Tuesday's will be "YouTube Tuesdays" here at the AFL Talons Fanblog. This week we have the Tulsa Talon's intro video from 2009:




To find out more about the Tulsa Talons visit tulsatalons.com

The Arena Football League is back!

Last year the Arena Football League (AFL) filed for bankruptcy following the suspension of the 2009 season. This also meant the end of the AFL's development league, AF2. Many of AF2's board of directors, however, continued to meet and decided to form a league to replace the void left by the AFL that would also keep many of their teams active. The league was originally titled Arena Football One and bought the AFL's assets, including team names and logos for both the AFL and AF2. On February 17th, 2010 the AF1 officially announce that the league would change its name to the Arena Football League.

The new league will be made up of a combination of old AFL and AF2 teams, many of which will continue to use their original names and logos. Consisting of 15 teams, the league will divided into 2 conferences, each with 2 divisions. League lineup for 2010:

American Conference

Southern Division

Alabama Vipers (AF2)

Jacksonville Sharks (new)

Orlando Predators (AFL)

Tampa Bay Storm (AFL)

Southwest Division

Bossier-Shreveport Battle Wings (AF2)

Dallas Vigilantes (new)

Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz (AF2)

Tulsa Talons (AF2)

National Conference

Midwest Conference

Chicago Rush (AFL)

Cleveland Gladiators (AFL)

Iowa Barnstormers (AF2)

Milwaukee Iron (AF2)

Western Conference

Arizona Rattlers (AFL)

Spokane Shock (AF2)

Utah Blaze (AFL)

Note 0n the Dallas Vigilantes: Originally was the Dallas Desperados from the AFL but decided to reform under a new team name.

The 2010 season will officially kick off on April 2nd, 2010. Every week of the 2010 season NFL Network will be showing a national AFL game of the week. The official NFL Network schedule for 2010 is (all games at 8pm EST):

April 2nd: Chicago Rush at Iowa Barnstormers

April 9th: Cleveland Gladiators at Chicago Rush

April 16th: Orlando Predators at Jacksonville Sharks

April 25th: Utah Blaze at Chicago Rush

April 30th: Iowa Barnstormers at Orlando Predators

May 7th: Jacksonville Sharks at Tampa Bay Storm

May 14th: Utah Blaze at Milwaukee Iron

May 21st: Arizona Rattlers at Iowa Barnstormers

May 28th: Tampa Bay Storm at Orlando Predators

June 4th: Jacksonville Sharks at Chicago Rush

June 11th: Tulsa Talons at Dallas Vigilantes

June 18th: Jacksonville Sharks at Chicago Rush

June 25th: Bossier-Shreveport Battlewings at Tampa Bay Storm

July 2nd: Chicago Rush at Tampa Bay Storm

July 9th: Tampa Bay Storm at Dallas Vigilantes

July 16th: Spokane Shock at Iowa Barnstormers

July 23rd: Chicago Rush at Spokane Shock

July 30th: Tulsa Talons at Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz

Be sure to check back here throughout the season for coverage of the season and insights.