The death of the LA Kiss and Orlando Predators

Like I mentioned a few months ago I went to an arena football game recently, seeing the Orlando Predators take on the LA Kiss. Both teams will not be down for breakfast. For the LA Kiss it's not a surprise at all. The owners knew nothing about sports, much less football. For the Orlando Predators, it's a complete surprise. This team has been in Orlando for twenty five years and if you've been in business for that long a time, you are doing something right. No, I'm not a big football fan and no, I haven't been following them for two years much less twenty five-so I'm not devastated by them going under. I did have a good time at the game and I was planning on going to some more in the upcoming season though.

The only constant in minor league sports is change. Teams come and go all the time and teams like the Pawtucket Red Sox-who have been in existence forever and haven't moved in years-are pretty rare. 

While not technically a minor league let's not kid ourselves. Arena football players are usually not good enough to play in the NFL, with few exceptions. Just mentioning Kurt Warner doesn't mean what I said wasn't true.  If the players were good enough to play for millions in the NFL, they wouldn't be playing for thousands in the Arena league. 

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley deluded themselves into thinking that their team could compete in the Los Angels market and I think an NFL team has moved to Los Angeles recently, so that surely provided the death blow to their franchise. They also had to compete with USC and UCLA football. Granted college is a different schedule than Arena football, but it's still competition.

 It's sad for the players and employees-rumors are all over the place that they have not been paid for their services. Paul and Gene have also been really quiet on social media about their latest failure. Very disappointed in them for treating people so poorly. I don't think it'll damage the Kiss legacy though-after all Music from the Elder should have prepared them for failure.