We are adding info to the Calendar page, so come check it out.  Let us know if
we need to add or correct anything.  It is a work in
progress!<br><br>Thanks!!<br><br>Larry

The Storm was behind all night, but with 54
seconds left, we came back to tie it up. Mike Black had a
chance to win it all with 6 secinds left, but according
to the Officials(?) it was wide right. In O.T., we
went 4 and out and the rattlers took it in.
<br><br>Check out the new photos in the Photo Album, and check
out the videos at:
<br><a href=http://briefcase.yahoo.com/tampabaystormvideo
target=new>http://briefcase.yahoo.com/tampabaystormvideo</a>

Gotta go take care of the Rattlers! <br><br>Also check out the "Hall of Fame"
album for a photo of "afi_it" and other Storm Fans!<br><br>More fan photos are
coming! <br><br>Larry

Hi all ... just an update : now I've 2 daughter (Lisa born in February) ... btw
my passion for Arena Football is always high :)

Original Story at:
<a href=http://www.gofanguides.com/arena.html
target=new>http://www.gofanguides.com/arena.html</a><br><br>This Guy Loves Arena
Football From Afar <br>Fans from
Los Angeles to New England, get this: Overseas, there
are sports fans who are turning over their passion to
American Football, Arena Football, that
is.<br><br>Giancarlo Rancanti, for example, is an Arena Football fan
in sunny Italy who is dedicated to following the AFL
from thousands of miles away.<br><br>Giancarlo is
known as "ArenaFan #1 in Italy." Born in Milan in 1963,
and now residing in Verano Brianza, just 20 miles
north of Milan, Giancarlo lives with his wife,
Giovanna, and their daughter, Sara,7. <br><br>Ten years
ago, Rancati heard about the AFL in Pro Football
Weekly. He was struck by the high-scoring, fan-friendly
atmosphere. Today, as a computer programmer, he continues to
follow the league on the Internet. "Luckily with the
Internet, it is much easier to find information on Arean
Football but a few years ago it was very difficult," says
Rancati, who taught himself English. <br><br>Giancarlo
keeps in touch with Arena Fans Jim and Annie Malone in
Albany and Bruce DiBisceglie in New Jersey via phone and
e-mails. Fans from every AFL team know Giancarlo from
ArenaFan Online. They send him tapes of games.<br><br>"I
love Arena Football so much," he says, "that I can't
choose only one team," says Giancarlo. But he names
players over the last 10 years that he admires -- Barry
Wagner, Jay Gruden, Hunkie Cooper and George LaFrance.

Hi autrianstormfan, glad to see that your a storm fan. Just stay with the club
and we will keep you up on all the good stuff with the storm with photos and
messages.  GO STORM   Cat24lady

Hi !!!<br>My name is René and I´m from Austria. I´m a 15 year old guy and I´m a
football fan. I was in Amrica and watched a Storm game.<br><br>Mail back
!!!!<br><br>René<br>reb@...

Tonight on Sunshine network 630pm.

The Game: Tampa Bay (7-1) vs. Arizona (5-3)
<br>Date: Friday, June 15, 2001 <br>Kickoff: 7:30pm
<br>Site: Ice Palace (20,000) <br>Radio: 620 AM WDAE (Jack
Harris & Jason Dixon) Live <br>TV: Sunshine Network
(Rick Peckham, James Bates & Erin Andrews) Live
<br>Time-Warner (Eric Keaton & Stacey Simmons) tape-delayed
<br>Series Record: Storm lead 5-3, includes 1-1 in playoffs
<br>Coaches: Danny White (98-44 overall, tenth season)<br>Tim
Marcum (133-38 overall, thirteenth season) <br>
<br>STORM INJURY REPORT:<br>Pos. Name Injury Status <br>DS
Brad Ford Shoulder Out <br>WR/DB Alvoid Mays Hamstring
Out <br>WR/DB Jami Oats Shoulder Out <br>OL/DL Pig
Goff Concussion Questionable <br>FB/LB Andre Bowden
Foot Probable <br>WR/DB Gunnard Twyner Foot Probable
<br>DS Tommy Henry Wrist Probable <br>FB/LB Nyle Wiren
Heel Probable

Tampa Bay Storm lineman Rod Williams, whose five
sacks are tied for the Arena lead, will be the special
guest on Sunshine Network Live! presents The Tampa Bay
Storm Report this Wednesday at 6:30pm. <br><br>Williams
will be joined by hosts Charles Davis, Glen Dehmer and
Erin Andrews as well as Storm Head Coach Tim Marcum
for a half hour of Storm football on the team's
flagship television broadcaster, which can be seen by over
5.3 million households throughout the state of
Florida. <br><br>Williams is the Storm's center and one of
the most feared defensive linemen in the AFL. He's
posted a career-high five sacks on the year, which leads
the league, as well as force three fumbles and has a
safety. He's the athletic director and a law studies
teacher at his high school alma mater (Madison County
High School), which is about 40 miles east of
Tallahassee. <br><br>Each Wednesday throughout the Arena
season, Sunshine Network will broadcast The Tampa Bay
Storm Report at 6:30pm with a coach and a player as a
special guest, giving insight and adding commentary
reviewing the previous week's game and previewing the
upcoming one. <br><br> Remaining Storm games on Sunshine
Network <br> June 15 Arizona 7:30pm <br> June 25 at
Florida 7:30pm <br> July 13 at Nashville 8:30pm

I hope to see PIG play on friday nite. Even tho we lost Sunday lets get behind
the team and be as loud as we can.  GO STORM    Cat24lady

Click on the following url for Storm video clips.
You will need to have Windows Media Player 7 software
(it is free from the Microsoft download webpage at
<a href=http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
target=new>http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/</a> ). You can try to left click
on the video, if
that doesn't work, right click on the video and "Save
Target As" to your desktop or another file. Once saved,
left click "OPEN" to start.<br><br>More videos after
the Rattler
Game!!<br><br><a href=http://briefcase.yahoo.com/tampabaystormvideo
target=new>http://briefcase.yahoo.com/tampabaystormvideo</a>

Please post photos (in the HALL OF FAME album) of Storm fans enjoying the game,
with players or other Storm related activities! <br><br>Larry

It was another average Storm/Pred game, back and
forth, glimmers of great plays and horrible plays. The
onside kick by Orlando (and recovered by them) seemed to
be the initial turning point, and our onside kick
late in the game (failed to be recovered by the Storm)
was the final nail.<br><br>Congrats (cough-choke) to
the Preds and a hearty "See ya in Tampa on July
1"!<br><br>More on the game later.

ARENAFAN RADIO premieres LIVE!! WEDNESDAY JUNE
6TH @ 9 PM
EASTERN.<br><br><a href=http://www.arenafan.com/interactive/?page=radio
target=new>http://www.arenafan.com/interactive/?page=radio</a><br><br>Call in
live (1-877-913-9739)or go to the ArenaFan.com
chat room to ask questions.

ARENAFAN RADIO premieres LIVE!! WEDNESDAY JUNE
6TH @ 9 PM
EASTERN.<br><br><a href=http://www.arenafan.com/interactive/?page=radio
target=new>http://www.arenafan.com/interactive/?page=radio</a><br><br>Call in
live (1-877-913-9739)or go to the ArenaFan.com
chat room to ask questions.

Bowden (6-0, 185, North Carolina A&T), who leads
the AFL in all-purpose yard average (247.6), had 15
receptions for 183 yards. The four-year veteran had five
total touchdowns (four receiving and one rushing) and
300 all-purpose yards. His reception mark was a
career-high, while his all-purpose performance gave him the
most 300-yard games (five) for a career in AFL
history. Bowden's effort helped keep the Storm (7-0)
undefeated with a 58-51, overtime victory against the
Carolina Cobras.<br><br>Previous winners:<br>Week, Most
Valuable Player, Ironman<br>Week 1, QB Clint Dolezel
(Grand Rapids), WR/DB Carlos James (Buffalo)<br>Week 2,
QB Pat O'Hara (Toronto), WR/LB Hunkie Cooper
(Arizona)<br>Week 3, OS Robert Gordon (Detroit), FB/LB Bob McMillen
(San Jose)<br>Week 4, QB Raymond Philyaw (Indiana),
WR/LB James Roe (San Jose)<br>Week 5, QB Billy Dicken
(Chicago), WR/LB Barry Wagner (San Jose)<br>Week 6, QB Fred
McNair (Carolina), DS/KR Anthony Derricks
(Toronto)<br>Week 7, OS Siaha Burley (Orlando), WR/DB Dameon Porter
(Chicago)

Click on the following url for Storm video clips.
You will need to have Windows Media Player 7 software
(it is free from the Microsoft download webpage). You
can try to left click on the video, if that doesn't
work, right click on the video and "save target as" to
your desktop or another file. Once saved, left click
to
start.<br><br><a href=http://briefcase.yahoo.com/tampabaystormvideo
target=new>http://briefcase.yahoo.com/tampabaystormvideo</a>

17 New photos are in Photo Album.  Check them out!!

This was the first Arena OT game ever played at
the Ice Palace<br><br>Tampa Bay is 2-0 in the regular
season in OT (last time: 7/12/96 - TB 65, Albany
52)<br><br>There were 14 lead changes in the game<br><br>Mike
Black sent the game in OT with a 43-yard FG with no
time remaining in regulation.<br><br>John Kaleo hurled
7 TDs for the fourth game this
season<br><br>Kaleo`s 27 completions are tied for second most in team
history and are his regular season career
high.<br><br>Kaleo`s 295 passing yards are a season high.
<br><br>James Bowden recorded his third 300 all-purpose yard
performance of 2001<br><br>J. Bowden has accounted for 611
all-purpose yards and 11 TDs in the last five days.<br><br>J.
Bowden caught team and personal-best 15 receptions for a
career-high 184 yards.<br><br>J. Bowden also nabbed a
two-point conversion mid-way through the second
quarter<br><br>Mel Agee caught his fourth career TD (second of
season) at the first-half buzzer<br><br>Pierre Hixon was
named Game IRONMAN for the second time this
season<br><br>Hixon caught a TD and recovered a fumble in the red
zone late in the game<br><br>Torry Epps recorded his
third career sack on the game`s first play from
scrimmage<br><br>Willie Wyatt made a big impact in his first Arena game
in over a year a half: he recorded two tackles, four
QB hurries and teamed with Pig Goff on a sack to
secure the Storm victory.<br><br>Tommy Henry set a
career-high with 15 tackles and added four pass
breakups<br><br>In just seven games, Henry has 68 tackles, which
already ranks 7th in team season history. <br><br>He`s on
pace for an AFL-record 136.<br><br>The Storm has
scored 50 or more points for the fifth time this season

It was nice to see Willie back in the line up. We can only go foreward... Go
Storm Cat24lady

He saved us tonight. He is a keeper..Cat24lady

First home game was played June 1, 1991 at the
Florida Suncoast Dome. The St. Pete Times has a very nice
article on the history of the Storm. ALL FANS, IF YOU
HAVE ANY ZUBA STRIPES, WEAR THEM TO THE GAME
TONIGHT!!!<br><br>By JOHN C. COTEY<br><br>© St. Petersburg
Times,<br>published June 1, 2001 <br><br>TAMPA -- As confident as Bob
Gries was in his business acumen, 10 years ago to this
day he still wasn't exactly sure his plan would fly.
<br><br>Would St. Petersburg support an Arena Football League
team? Would fans come out in droves to watch a sport
very few had seen, or known about? <br><br>Would a
group of unknown athletes playing a hybrid game
bordered by padded walls and anchored by hanging nets on a
field half the size used in American football be able
to catch the fancy of the populace? <br><br>On June
1, 1991, Gries got his answer. <br><br>"We had only
sold 3,000-4,000 tickets leading up to the game, and
everybody was pretty worried," Gries said. "At that point,
I was worried, too. I told (Florida Suncoast Dome
general manager Jerry Oliver) to expect about 4,000
walk-ups. <br><br>That first night, 10,354 fans -- Gries
was right about the number of walk-ups -- offered a
precursor of the things to come just a year later when
crowds of more than 18,000 made Storm games an area
happening. <br><br>Behind quarterback Reggie Collier's seven
touchdown passes, Orlando won that first game 51-31, though
the crowd was more curious than crazed, and clearly
unfamiliar with Storm players like lineman Tom Gizzi, wide
receiver Darren Willis and kicker Paul Hickert. Chances
are, they recognized special Storm assistant Lee Roy
Selmon. <br><br>"No one knew what was going on; we didn't
know the rules, hardly," said fullback Andre Bowden,
the lone remaining player from that game. "The only
thing I remember is that there were a lot of guys out
there who wanted to play football. None of us knew
anything about the game." <br><br>Nashville coach Pat
Sperduto was a lineman on that team. He said he remembers
losing, but otherwise everything that first night was a
blur. <br><br>"It was like an experiment for all of
us," Sperduto said. "We didn't know if it would last
one season, much less 10." <br><br>For that game,
players earned $400. Had they won, they would have
received a $100 bonus. <br><br>"I thought, I'm risking my
health for this?" Gruden said. <br><br>But the most
memorable thing from that season was the red-and-blue
Zubas-style uniforms, which were presented to the players
before the first game and worn, well, begrudgingly.
<br><br>"I was embarrassed," Gruden said. <br><br>It was a
sentiment shared by everyone who wore them. At the time,
Zubas, a multicolored, zebra-striped type of design,
formed a partnership with the sponsor-hungry league.
Most teams were too embarrassed, however, to wear the
full Zubas, opting for just the stripes down the leg
on plain-colored pants. <br><br>Not the Storm, the
only team to embrace this eye-sore of a design.
<br><br>"I thought it was great; it gave an identity to
Arena football," Gries said. "We were the only team
that went with the full Zubas on the pants and jersey.
<br><br>"But I remember when I brought them into the locker
room the reaction was somewhere between fainting and
rebellion." <br><br>"Atrocious," Sperduto said. "And that's
an understatement. They were one in a million."
<br><br><br>"The biggest ovation we ever got in four years in
spite of all the championships was when we changed our
uniforms at halftime (against Miami in 1993)," Gries said.
"The fans were out of their minds. They gave us a 5-10
minute standing ovation."

Woo-Hoo!! this is GREAT news.....I already knew
about it last week....hee-hee!!<br>If Willie plays like
he did 2 years ago, there will be NO stopping the
Storm....that was a comment made by a friend of mine who played
with the Storm 2 years ago.<br>See ya tonight and "GO
STORM"!!

Storm Welcome Back Wyatt<br><br><br><br>In order
to solidify an already solid line that leads the AFL
in sacks (nine) and has allowed the fewest (one),
the Tampa Bay Storm signed the most-decorated player
in franchise history, Willie Wyatt, who is expected
to play for this Friday¹s game against the Carolina
Cobras.<br><br>Wyatt has been named to most All-Arena teams (four)
than any player in team history and is considered one
of the best center/nose tackles the game has ever
seen. He is a candidate for the All-IRONMAN and All-15
year team that can be voted on
arenafootball.com.<br><br>Wyatt started his Arena career with the Detroit Drive
in 1993 under Storm Head Coach Tim Marcum where he
recorded three sacks. In 1994, he was part of the largest
trade in Arena history (a 12-man deal) that dealt him
to Tampa Bay. He elected not to play in 1994, but
joined the team in ¹95 when Marcum became head coach. He
made an impact from his first game with the Storm
getting sacks in his first two games, finished the year
second on the club in sacks, blocked a career and team
record three blocked kicks and earned Second-Team
All-Arena as he helped the Storm to an ArenaBowl
title.<br><br>In 1997 and Œ98, Wyatt was All-Arena First Team. One
of the strangest plays in Arena history occurred on
July 12, 1997 against the Anaheim Piranhas, when Wyatt
rushed through the line on a field goal attempt and
grabbed the ball off the kicking tee and rumbled down to
the five-yard line to the amazement of kicker Ian
Howfield.<br><br>The 1999 season was Wyatt¹s last when sustained an
injury and played just eight games, but was recognized
by the AFL with All-Arena Second Team honors. He
rejoins the club after a year away from the game. In
2000, Wyatt was named to the Storm's All-Decade
team.<br><br>Wyatt started eight games with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
in 1990 and has experience with the Philadelphia
Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers and the WLAF¹s Orlando
Thunder after a great college career at the University of
Alabama.

Check out the photo history of the Storm.  More coming later!

66-41 Storm over Grand Rapids! The Storm is
scheduled to return to TPA on Monday at 1pm at the
Northwest Airlines Terminal...I do not have the flight
number at this time.<br><br>Here is the rest of the
Storm Schedule:<br><br>Fri. June 1 Carolina Cobras 7:30
p.m. <br>Sun. June 10 @ Orlando Predators 3:00 p.m.
<br>Fri. June 15 Arizona Rattlers 7:30 p.m. <br>Mon. June
25 @ Florida Bobcats 7:30 p.m. <br>Sun. July 1
Orlando Predators 4:00 p.m. <br>Sat. July 7 Houston
ThunderBears 7:30 p.m. <br>Fri. July 13 @ Nashville Kats 8:30
p.m. <br>Sat. July 21 New Jersey Gladiators 7:30 p.m.

The May 12 game photos against the Phantoms are in the file.  More photos to
come!!<br><br>Larry

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