{"id":39001,"date":"2014-05-12T20:16:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T03:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=39001"},"modified":"2014-05-12T20:36:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T03:36:47","slug":"la-kiss-adds-arena-football-leagues-all-time-passing-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=39001","title":{"rendered":"LA KISS Adds Arena Football League\u2019s All-Time Passing Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37695\" style=\"width: 272px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LA-KISS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37695\" class=\"wp-image-37695 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LA-KISS.jpg\" alt=\"The KISS Acquires Aaron Garcia \" width=\"262\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The KISS Acquires Aaron Garcia<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 May 12, 2014<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakissfootball.com\/\">LA KISS<\/a> today announced the acquisition of 21-year veteran quarterback Aaron Garcia. Garcia, who in 2012 was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arenafootball.com\/sports\/a-footbl\/spec-rel\/080312aab.html\">named<\/a> No. 3 on the league\u2019s list of Top 25 Greatest Players, owns every major AFL career passing record. During his career, Garcia has amassed 4,381 completions, 7,546 attempts, 60,450 yards and 1,310 touchdowns. He\u2019s also rushed for 46 touchdowns. \u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In exchange for the record holder, LA sends quarterback J.J. Raterink, the No. 3 claim spot and future considerations to the Jacksonville Sharks. Jacksonville sends Raterink to the Iowa Barnstormers in exchange for defensive tackle James McClinton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aaron brings an incredible pedigree and much-needed competitive spirit to LA KISS,&#8221; says LA KISS Head Coach Bob McMillen. \u201cHe\u2019s been able to do some amazing things in this league and we\u2019re confident he will help us move ahead \u2013 both on and off the field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A product of Northern California (Sacramento State), Garcia made his AFL debut in 1995 with the Arizona Rattlers. Since then, he has played with several winning franchises and earned numerous arena football accolades including three First Team All-Arena selections (2000, 2001, 2011), two AFL Offensive Player of the Year nods (2001, 2011) and an ArenaBowl MVP award for his winning performance in 2011\u2019s ArenaBowl XXIV.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia will join the LA KISS (2-6) this weekend as they face-off against the Pittsburgh Power (5-3), Saturday, May 17, 2014. The game kicks off at 3PM (PDT) and will be broadcast nationally via the CBS Sports Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 May 12, 2014 \u2013 LA KISS today announced the acquisition of 21-year veteran quarterback Aaron Garcia. Garcia, who in 2012 was named No. 3 on the league\u2019s list of Top 25 Greatest Players, owns every major AFL career passing record. During his career, Garcia has amassed 4,381 completions, 7,546 attempts, 60,450 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6086,9399,9182],"class_list":["post-39001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-news-notes-around-professional-football","tag-aaron-garcia","tag-arena-footbal-league","tag-l-a-kiss"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39001","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39009,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39001\/revisions\/39009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}