{"id":2189,"date":"2009-08-12T10:06:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T17:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2009-08-12T10:06:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T17:06:37","slug":"off-the-cuff-august-12-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"Off The Cuff: August 12, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What did we learn last night?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWell I for one am impressed with Northview Head Coach Jim Arellanes.<\/p>\n<p>The fact he didn&#8217;t start flinging a football until his freshman season and became the starting quarterback at Fresno State is what movies of the week are made of.<\/p>\n<p>He started in front of Billy Volek who ended up playing with the Titans and Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>Coming from a former Bulldog, to hear about the &#8220;red wave&#8221; and see the expression in his face was priceless.<\/p>\n<p>He is also is a disciple of University of California head coach Jeff Tedford.\u00a0 Which as most know is a genius with quarterbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Silas Demary was his usual pumped up self during his interview.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have never seen him play, the word &#8220;warrior&#8221; is a complete understatement.\u00a0 The last few years after he won the AFL&#8217;s Lineman of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year in 2005, Demary took longer to get up because of his knees and nagging back.<\/p>\n<p>Still during those years, he battled every game night.<\/p>\n<p>Arena Football fans got a few answers from the players side on why the AFL ended up closing shop.\u00a0 The biggest was the fact the league never saw a dime of the $6 million dollar profit that EA Sports got for making the AFL games.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just got a email explaining more of the inner workings of what was going on with the owners and their inability to get a deal done to play in 2010.\u00a0 That will be forth coming in tomorrow&#8217;s edition when I decipher all the rhetoric involved.<\/p>\n<p>The Toyota Speedway at Irwindale Report blew up last night!<\/p>\n<p>We had are largest crowd and some very good guests.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Wood is so accomplished as far as being a writer and producer am I still trying to compose myself.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t everyday you have a multiple winner of the &#8220;Golden Mike&#8221; in studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did we learn last night?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[578,575,577,576,200,579],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fanview","tag-afl","tag-bill-wood","tag-ea-sports","tag-jeff-tedford","tag-jim-arellanes","tag-silas-demary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}