Posted: January 28th, 2012
By, Adam Knoll There is a wide conception that 8-Man football is not ‘real’ football; that it cannot be compared accurately to the traditional 11-man game. Some feel the field is too big for 8 players, that the additional space between ball carrier and defender is too wide. The most constant comparison is to [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2011
By: Adam Knoll . . . . The first league-wide Power Ranking Poll was taken just this past week and it seems that a major shift in perspective is at hand. The Lake County Cowboys, despite dropping their round one playoff game last season, has been deemed the best team in the GFL. The Lake [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2011
Oak Creek Arsenal On Friday, December 9th, the Oak Creek Arsenal held their first team fundraiser to raise money for the family of Donnasia Renee Jackson, who tragically passed away in October. The 80 people on hand helped raise over $250 by engaging in raffles and passing around a donation plate. The Arsenal would like [...]
Posted: December 2nd, 2011
By: Adam Knoll , . . . At the November 30thOwners meeting, many ideas were exchanged as the night moved on, however, a bit of league business did get accomplished. Most notably, each team in the GFL got a list of their opponents for the 2012 season, which was highly anticipated. As promised, the hardest [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2011
By Adam Knoll . The 2011 Season gave us no shortages of fantastic match-ups and endings. Some were just well played while others gave us great insight into how the league was progressing and changing. The outcomes, while important, sometimes took a backseat to the greater backdrop against which they were set, the story-lines were [...]
Posted: October 31st, 2011
By: Adam Knoll . . . . Would the league be open to realignment after the season to maybe even out the talent between the conferences? In a convoluted way, yes. With the discrepancies the GFL experienced last season with the scheduling, a few things are changing for this upcoming season. Having four teams drop [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2011
By, Adam Knoll . Here are your Nuggets of Knowledge for the week of October 15th: . . * The Chicago Chaos have undergone an ownership change. Former part-owner Jay Fortuna has moved on to become the starting quarterback for the Lake Shore Lynx and has rescinded his stake in the team to Derek Brenner [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2011
By: Adam Knoll The GFL Season will come to a close this Friday night as the Kenosha Cougars will meet the Lake Shore Lynx in Libertyville for the 2011 Championship. Both of these teams led their Conferences throughout the season and share only one loss between them, when the Lynx defeated the Cougars 35-8 in [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2011
By: Jay Fortuna . . . 2011 GFL Defensive MVP…. Controlled Chaos If ever there was a player that exemplified the words controlled chaos it is the 2011 Defensive MVP from the Chicago Chaos Derek Brenner. Brenner, who has been remarked as the best “football player” in the GFL by the Lake [...]
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By: Jay Fortuna . . . GFL OFFENSIVE MVP…. The Man, The Myth, The Ladd… Football is game that is not always won by the team that has the most talent. Winning teams are not created just by having the most skilled players on the field. With that in mind, the 2011 the Lake [...]