Af2

af2 (short for arenafootball2) is the name of the Arena Football League's minor league, which started play in 2000. The rules are the same as for the parent league. While the parent league moved its season opening to February to accommodate a television contract with the National Broadcasting Company in 2003, af2 stayed with the "traditional" Arena season of April-July.

Arena Cup

The Arena Cup is the af2's championship game, held each August (results are below). For the league's first five years, it was held at the arena of the higher seeded team. However, as their parent league, the AFL, has changed, the af2 has changed too. The 2005 Arena Cup will be played at a neutural site for the first time. It will be played in Bossier City, Louisiana.

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Arena Cup - August - 2005 - Bossier City - Louisiana

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For the 2000 and 2001 Arena Cups, the game was televised nationally by TNN (now Spike TV), who carried AFL games on Sunday afternoons at the time. However, when the AFL announced their televised games would be shown on NBC rather than TNN, the Arena Cup telecast was lost. The 2002 Arena Cup was televised by the Vision Network, and the 2003 game was televised by KWHB, a local station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After having no television coverage in 2004, the game will once again be telecast nationally in 2005, now by Fox Sports Net.

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2000 - 2001 - Spike TV - NBC - 2002 - 2003 - KWHB - Tulsa - Oklahoma - 2004 - 2005 - Fox Sports Net

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