af2 unaffected by AFL decision
The arenafootball2 league (af2), the official development league of the Arena Football League (AFL), will play a normal schedule in 2009, the league’s 10th anniversary season.
The af2 operates as a separate entity from the AFL, which announced it officially is suspending play for ’09 while the league and its board of directors work on developing a long-term plan to improve its economic model for the 2010 season.
The af2 is supported by 25 team ownership groups, including the Florida Firecats in Southwest Florida, that are personally and financially committed to operate in 2009, a sound and sensible economic structure, and a league office that operates efficiently.
“Today’s decision by the AFL will not affect our preparation for a successful 2009 af2 campaign,” af2 president Jerry Kurz said in a prepared statement. “We’re excited by the addition of Milwaukee to our league family and feel this, our 10th anniversary season, will provide our fans with the most competitive and most entertaining year ever.”
The 2009 af2 schedule was finalized and released in early November.