According to Jack Youngblood, a special consultant to AFL Commissioner C. David Baker and former general manager of the Orlando franchise, this well-roundedness is good for the league. They see a player has God-given talent. At the same time, because of the economics of our league, he can't specialize in that one thing. He's a real person working for FedEx, or in a hospital, or at a school. If there is one area in which the Arena Football League deserves high accolades, it is in its treatment of fans.
Fans get to keep any ball they catch in the stands.
You feel the energy when a linebacker moves up to make a play in the hole. A receiver catches the ball, and suddenly he's in the crowd. True, it can all be a little too close for the players, who sit within easy shouting range of every imaginable epithet when they're on the bench. I don't even know if they were real words they were so dirty. But I feed on that.