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[Hook'em Horns]

I was talking to a fellow EFL friend and we both realized that our hobby, if played the right way is 1000% more exciting than majority of the hobbies that are on National television right now. Did you know that the game "Rock, Paper, Scissors" has an annual national tournament held on ESPN? Did you know that 3 years ago the card game "POKER" or "Texas Hold'em" wasn't even on the minds of ESPN broadcasters to promote and broadcast to a national audience? Heck even during the super bowl we have to sit through commercials that broadcast to a national audience "beer bottles" playing football! Is this crazy or what?

Can you imagine during the commercial break of the super bowl, 9000 EFL enthusiast crowded around a miniature version of the same stadium that years superbowl is being played in watching and cheering for 2 coaches decked out in NFL coaches apparel of the team that they are representing? I'd much rather watch that before I watch some beer bottles playing football. Here is how it can happen...

First of all you have to think to yourself why are those hobbies on television and we are not? The one common thread amongst all of them is "unity". "Poker" is one set of rules, Billiards is one set of rules, Bud Bowl has one agenda - Marketing and promoting Budweiser. Our hobby by far and away is more exciting than watching any of them. However, we are not a unit. We are filled with jealousy, envy, hatred towards our own kind and that intereferes with our progression. We have so many different styles of play that we won't come together to create a national set of rules because our pride does not allow us to be ok with struggling in a foreign environment on a national scale.

When you look at these events on television you see thousands of people in attendance! We need the whole Miniature Football Community at this event regardless if you are playing or not. It needs to look and feel like a Super Bowl! Our hobby is so filled with envy, hatred and jealousy that we can't get on one accord for the common good our hobby! Heck, once we get what we need out of this you can go back to playing your style of play, just sacrifice and help in the movement of of hobby for one stinkin event. I can care less what rules we use just get together and combine them and allow what would be condusive for television in and the other stuff out!

We're going to need a set of rules that would be condusive to television obviously but most importantly we're going to need 2 highly skilled coaches playing in it. In the NFL when a team runs a draw or a trap or even a counter play you can see that play develop. We need players skilled enough so that when a play works the audience can see why it worked. The audience needs to be able to see the design of the play, they need to be able to see the key block that allowed the runner free, they need to be able to see the strategy! We also need the best EFL Commentators this hobby has to offer! Preferably EFL guys who know the hobby and are in the profession of broadcasting. We need to be able to keep the audience interested and engaged during the setup time. Can you imagine walking into your local arena and a miniature stadium is set up at center court with 3 referees in zebra stripes, a coach on each side dressed in their team apparal and 8000 EFL enthusiast in the stands watching and listening on jumbo screen as if they were at a real live event? That would be truly the day that ESPN would say "we need to cover this"!

We need to get to this point guys. If we ever arrived here what 2 coaches would you like to see hook it up if you couldn't vote for yourself? Me personally, in this kind of event I would like to see two very experienced coaches that play at very high levels. My vote would be for...


Vince Peatros -vs- DC "the kid"

Although, I could easily vote to see many other matchups lets just keep it to one to see what coaches the country would most likely want to see play at this event.