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The joke is on the CIFL as Rochester Raiders
owner Bob Bartosiewicz pulled his undefeated and reigning world champion
Rochester Raiders out of the CIFL earlier today after the Flint Phantoms failed
to show up for the game in Rochester this afternoon.
The Rochester Raiders had won 24 straight CIFL games and Rochester Raiders superstar Maurice
"Mo" Jackson will no longer be electrifying CIFL fans.
The Rochester Raiders took their 2007 CIFL
championship rings with them while telling the Spitaleri brothers to shove the 2008
CIFL playoffs right up their a**. The CIFL has been horrible at enforcing rules
and deadlines all season long, and the Raiders had enough of the bull.
Most of the season the CIFL statistics have been a complete joke, and
now the 2008 Continental Indoor Football Season has just become a
joke as well! OSC is reporting that the undefeated world champion Rochester Raiders have
pulled out of the CIFL!! Team owner Bob Bartosiewicz pulled the team out
of the league when the Flint Phantoms did not show up for their game with the
Raiders earlier this afternoon.
The CIFL supposedly had a security deposit
system in place to insure all of the season games are played, but Barto
is suspecting no team except the Raiders actually paid the security
deposit. Team owner Bob Bartosiewicz asked for a refund of his security deposit
and he was denied by CIFL officials. 13WHAM and the 8th man have reported that the Raiders
have already been added to the American Indoor Football Association (AIFA),
and will play three exhibition home games against AIFA teams, and then play in the National
Indoor Championship game in Rochester, NY against the league champ. The AIFA is an 8 man indoor
league that was born from the old AIFL in 2007.
This really does not surprise me as the CIFL's
weak enforcement policies, very poor communication, and the league's excuse making is second to
none. It now appears as if a handful of CIFL teams may not be back next year due
to financial or other reasons, and to be honest several of the teams in this
league are a complete joke anyway. The CIFL had been producing incomplete, slow, misleading and
inaccurate stats for months, and now the season is a confirmed farce with the
pulling out of the defending league champion Rochester Raiders before the playoffs even
begin!
I gotta hand it to the Raiders, they were not
getting what was expected, and they told the league where to put it. I have seen
enough of this league to know that they pitch a lot of BS instead of dealing
with problems and issues that need immediate attention.
Well, Rock River, the road to the CIFL
championship just got a lot easier with the team that put a 50-10
pre-season beatdown on Raptors now gone from the league. Who would have known that just 12 games
after that whupping they put on the Rik Richards led Raptors the Raiders would tell the league to stick it. Who knows how
long the AIFA will be around for, but who cares since we are in the CIFL and the
Continental Indoor Football League seems to be falling apart before our very own
eyes...from the top and the bottom simultaneously!
-MinoltaMan 10:00 PM 6-8-2008
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