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NBC is home to Arena Football League.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Larry Eichel
PHILADELPHIA _ It wasn't so long ago that NBC was bringing us the World Series, the Super Bowl and the NBA Finals.
As of Sunday afternoon, the network becomes the official home of the Arena Football League.
For each of the next 19 weekends, NBC will devote three hours to an indoor sport you may have never seen involving teams _ the Grand Rapids Rampage, the Indiana Firebirds, the Las Vegas Gladiators _ you've never heard of.
Chalk it up as yet another attempt to test the national appetite for football in the spring. The most recent, you will recall, was NBC's disastrous experience with the XFL. That league folded after its one and only season, in 2001, costing the ...
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