IFL 2025 Schedule Released! LFG!!! NFL Week 10 Preview

Since nothing of note happened this week, I'm gonna talk about the IFL a little bit. After seeing how feckless the NAL is and witnessing the revived shitshow known as the AFL, I can confidently say that after 16 season the Indoor Football League is the best ran indoor/arena football league. If indoor football wasn't so fractured, the best teams and the ones that been around for a long time would play in the same league. If only legacy teams like the Nashville Kats and Orlando Predators were here instead of Arena Football One(?). If only the Omaha Beef and Sioux City Bandits, both teams who have existed since 2000, were in the IFL instead of the NAL. Unfortunately, with the different rules each league has, I don't see them all consolidating any time soon.

THE GAMES

Hamilton County Bengals   28

Baltimore Ravens                35

Baltimore is an independent city so they're not actually part of Baltimore County.

Bergen County Giants                 27

Mecklenburg County Panthers    3

What did Germany do to deserve such a shitty game?

Norfolk County Patriots   17

Cook County Bears          24

Cook County is the 2nd most populous county behind LA County with a 2020 population of 5,275,541.

Erie County Bills         28

Marion County Colts   27

Rich people leaving Indianapolis to neighboring suburbs in Marion County led to the decay of the city. So in 1970 the Indiana General Assembly consolidated Indianapolis and Marion County into a city-county government called Unigov. There are 11 "included towns" that retained their own identity as towns but they have to abide by Indianapolis' laws. There are also 4 "excluded cities and town" that got to keep their governmental autonomy for the most part. The U.S. Census Bureau however use the population of the area of what was the City of Indianapolis before the consolidation calling it the "balance".

Hennepin County Vikings   7

Duval County Jaguars        23

Corruption in the city and county governments played a huge part in the consolidation of the City of Jacksonville and Duval County in 1968. The only 4 Duval County municipalities that remained somewhat independent of Jacksonville was Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach and Baldwin.

Denver Broncos               16

Jackson County Chiefs   36

Denver became a consolidated city-county in 1902 after Arapahoe County was split into the new Adams County and South Arapahoe County which later dropped the South part.

Fulton County Falcons   16

New Orleans Saints        31

Louisiana and Alaska are the only states that don't call their administrative divisions counties. Louisiana has parishes while Alaska calls them boroughs, so New Orleans is a consolidated city-parish.

Santa Clara County 49ers                41

Hillsborough County Buccaneers   21

Unlike Baltimore, Santa Clara is part of its namesake county.

Allegheny County Steelers                      23

Prince George's County Commanders  17

There's been attempts to consolidate Pittsburgh and Allegheny County but nothing happened yet.

Davidson County Titans             24

Los Angeles County Chargers    7

Urban sprawl led to the consolidation of the City of Nashville and Davidson County into a metropolitan government in 1963. This Metro Nashville is split into 2 districts where the "urban services district" encompasses the original City of Nashville (whose balance is used to count Nashville's population) while the "general services district" consist of the 6 smaller satellite cities of Davidson County that have their own police forces.

Bergen County Jets                 7

Maricopa County Cardinals   34

Even though Bergen County is in a completely different state, it is still part of the New York metropolitan area.

Philadelphia Eagles           17

Tarrant County Cowboys  10

Lawlessness was one of the main reasons why Philadelphia became a consolidated city-county in 1854. The surrounding municipalities was rife with crime due to inadequate law enforcement. Hell, people could commit crimes in Philadelphia City and cross the border into a neighboring township to get away since there was no communication between the city and county. So Governor William Bigler signed a bill allowing Philadelphia City to absorb the 28 surrounding townships, districts, and boroughs in Philadelphia County to form modern day Philadelphia. Philadelphia County still "exists" but it has no government structure with most of its services being handled by the city itself. 

Wayne County Lions   44

Harris County Texans   7

With a population of 4,731,145, Harris County is the 3rd most populous county in the country.

Miami-Dade County Dolphins   29

Los Angeles County Rams       21

After 5 failed attempts, Dade County was renamed Miami-Dade County in 1997 to acknowledge the international name recognition of Miami making it the only hyphenated county in America.

LAST WEEK:   9-6

OVERALL:      82-56