The Brooklyn coach, Pudgie Walsh (AFA/HOF class of ('87), and his Mariners won the AFA National Championship in 2003.
14th are: East Coast (FL) Reapers (vs.) Sea Port (GA) Sharks (at noon) Kankakee (IL) Seminoles (vs.) Fort Pierce (FL) Fire (3:30 pm) Brooklyn (NY) Mariners (vs.) Southern California Steelers (7 pm). Dave Rice, commissioner of the Southern States Football League and a 2005 AFA hall of fame inductee, collaborated with another AFA/HOF Legend, Jim Nugent of Chicago (National Football Events) to finalize the arrangements that will see a full day of semi-pro football action taking place in Fort Pierce Florida on National Bowl Weekend. Much of the credit for organizing these mid-January bowl games go to the efforts of several AFA Hall of Famers. While these post season games are basically exhibition in nature, they give some real incentive to teams who may have won their respective league championships or post season tournaments and want an opportunity to play someone in a warm weather climate bowl game.
Mid-January in Florida is ideal because many of the teams in the southern states play early season schedules whereas they're looking for pre-season action - even against northern teams who may just be coming off their playoff seasons. On those dates we will find several teams squaring off in the final National Bowl Games of the 2005 fall/winter season in Florida, while on the same weekend the AFA's Southern States Football League will be the first league to signal the start of the national association's spring/summer kickoff classic.įlorida in January seems to be the state of choice for the end of season National Bowl Games because the warm weather climate attracts northern, Midwestern and eastern semi-pro organizations looking to reward their teams for outstanding seasons by sending them south. The AFA announced that this coming weekend (January 14/15) will officially mark both the opening and closing of the semi-pro football seasons in the United States. The American Football Association, a 501(c) (3) public tax exempt non-profit corporation in it's 26th year of operation serving as the national association for adult amateur (semi-pro) teams and leagues, monitors the game action of all 720 teams and provides a weekly power-rating service for its member teams throughout the year.
Confusing? It isn¹t really when considering the fact that semi-pro level of the sport actually runs for 12 months of the year in order to facilitate venues for the 720 adult amateur teams across the country now playing in more than 60 leagues during two different seasons.
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