Arkansas Attack Explained

Arkansas Attack
League:Major League Football
Stadium:War Memorial Stadium
Location:Little Rock, Arkansas
Owner:Major League Football, Inc.
(publicly traded company)
Coach:Earnest Wilson

The Arkansas Attack are a proposed professional American football team based in Little Rock, Arkansas that has never played a game. The team is a member of the Major League Football (MLFB), a public traded professional football league, and plays its home games at War Memorial Stadium.

The Attack are part of the league "Core Four" teams.[1] They are the first pro football team in Little Rock, Arkansas since the Arkansas Diamonds, which played in the Continental Football League and later in the American Football Association. (In 1992, a team called the Arkansas Miners was set to call the War Memorial home in the proposed Professional Spring Football League, but the circuit folded without playing a game.)

History

On March 18, 2022, Major League Football launched a new website and revealed that there will be only four teams for the first season.[2] On May 6, after some delays and many candidates, MLFB hired their fourth coach for 2022 season Earnest Wilson,[3] which was most recently the head coach at Defiance College.[4] The league would later reveled he will coach the Arkansas Attack.[5]

The Attack started their training camp on July 21.[6] One week later, the team was evicted from its hotel amid unpaid bills and reports of the league shutting down.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Major League Football (MLFB) Announces Mobile as Final Host City for Inaugural 2022 Season.
  2. Web site: MLFB Updates Website — Team Names Revealed. March 18, 2022.
  3. Web site: Pelletier . Adam . May 6, 2022 . Earnest Wilson named as Fourth Major League Football Coach . May 6, 2022 . Sports Gambling Podcast . en-US.
  4. Web site: Shayne. Nissen. DC football: Earnest Wilson steps down as Jackets head coach . May 6, 2022 . The Crescent-News . en.
  5. Web site: PR: MLFB Announces Little Rock as Host City for Inaugural 2022 Season.
  6. Web site: MLFB Training Camp Report Day One: Players Arriving and Teams Start Meetings. SGPN.
  7. Web site: 2022-07-28 . Major League Football League ‘shut down’: players, coaches sent home . 2022-07-29 . WKRG News 5 . en-US.
  8. Web site: Michael Badejo on the Precipice of Playing Professional Football.