Better Know a Team: Defunct Edition, Part VI: Contributing to the Slow Heat Death of the Universe

Hey, so there are an awful lot of teams that played in the Arena League and don’t anymore. At this rate, we’ll get to actual active current teams when their rosters are comprised of those Esurance robots and whatnot.

Here’s the chart, for those of you that like those.

 Logos graded from 1-10. Grade 1 logos you’ll cuddle with and discuss the future. Grade 10 logos try to avoid making eye contact with on the train. No, I take that back, you actively move to another car train city.

Today: 1995 and 1996 expansion/contraction.

Infiltrating SportsNation: Hawaiians love the AFL

Grampa Gary gave us a little bit of a scare yesterday afternoon, as he checked in over 20 minutes late for his weekly “I Really Don’t Give Two Shits About This League” AFL chat, leaving your favorite J-named editor and a rather inquisitive Hawaiian hanging in the balance; for a while, it looked as though we would have to answer our fairly obvious questions for ourselves.