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Goodbye Orlando Predators
The team is folding.

You can add the Orlando Predators to the list of teams like the Thunder, Renegades, and Solar Bears. it leaves a hole in the schedule for the new arena.
It's the entire Arena Football League that's folding. The group is expected to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy sometime this week. The Predators were a success in Orlando, winning 2 Arena Bowls and regularly playing to crowds larger than 15 thousand. The new Events Center will have to find a way to make up the revenue loss that will come from 8 to 10 less nights there, plus the massive amounts of beer Predator fans were known to drink. The league is folding because salaries of the players were too high, even though they agreed to a 25 precent pay cut.
No comment from the Predators, and there's no word yet on how to get a refund if you were a season ticket holder. The Preds website says you can request a refund for last season in writing.
What others are saying
- PredsWhen the AFL started all players were paid the same amount.....seems like not only a fair idea but one that I'd care to see happen in other Pro sports too. A few years ago, differing salaries started...and now look what's happened. Yeras ago the players played, sure with the hope that some big deal contract from the NFL would happen, but they played for the fun of it....and they played both ways too. Somewhere somehow someone will again play arena rules ball but I sure hope they do it just for the fun of the game again.
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