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Football didn’t seem to be hurting for fans when somebody cooked up the concept of arena football. It’s goofy and high scoring. I never sensed it livened up the game in the same way indoor soccer did.

The fact a billion teams came and went in arena leagues thru the years, and the big kahuna went belly up, suggested it was a gimmick worth forgetting. Yet here comes a new league. Crazy.

Even Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley weren’t enough to keep arena football afloat. Perhaps the well is dry.

But hey, if you build an arena, and can make a few thousand dollars a night running arena football games in Las Vegas, it’s better than nothing.

By the way, the claim that tourists couldn’t care less about NHL hockey is incorrect. I’d agree, most won’t care. But there’s most definitely a group of tourists who plan trips to Vegas based upon when their preferred hockey team is in town to play the Gold Knights. A drop in the tourist bucket, but part of the Knights’ wild success is interest in games by fans of the opposing team.