for the Tampa Bay storm.
Forty one for the Memphis
Faroes.
We'll be back to the
Thunderdome in St.
Petersburg in a moment.
Well the Memphis Faroes hang
in town.
Don Frese on the left Tim
Markham on the right.
Markham the head coach of the
Tampa Bay storm a worried man.
Why you say he's up 12.
Well this is arena football.
Loads of time left about three
and a half minutes.
Anything.
Seeing himself.
Faroes now scored over 40
points in the fifth time all
year.
And LaFrance has got a lane and
he has just tripped up over the
10 yard line.
It's may have saved a touchdown
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All right.
Stevie Thomas top of the screen
for Francis in the slide.
Granis Bell in motion.
He can't see it.
And from Bruton and Bell may
have it up for the first down
as L. Davis had a hole in the
couldn't stop it.
I believe this St.
Lewis is up by one.
Albany has the ball in the two
yard line of St.
Lewis.
Oh my goodness.
Believe it.
Well that's well within field
goal range isn't it.
We need to split screen on this.
I'm sure our will get us the
final right.
Wagle eighty four.
I'm too.
I'm too ready.
We step back and forth.
Jake Bruton.
What he wants to do now is just
keep this drive alive and go
back to you.
Remember Thomas took a simple
pass for a score and also runs
the clock to the France.
Oh it's bad at the line of
scrimmage.
The other fan would hand it
fighting over that football.
They are fighting over that
football.
And who who lets go for who
gives it up.
Well the guy with the cap is
you know another one in the
pocket.
They were going to buy it and
all the negotiating.
Now I negotiate it.
They're going to flip.
Oh they're going to flip
civilized way to decide this.
Who gets it.
I see a guy in the shirt.
Oh good move.
That's a two headed point.
You know I know it.
Yeah.
I took that point.
I continues to roll.
Remember even after the
incompletion an arena football
league until the final minute.
So time the enemy of Memphis
and so is George LeFranc as he
gathers it in time is really
now starting to run out of
referrals.
It really is.
But we have a great game.
We have a good fan play.
This has been a complete
package and a timeout is called.
I believe Memphis is going to
take one to stop the clock.
If Tampa Bay wins this game
tonight they will be home for a
game next weekend.
However they don't know yet who
they would play.
We'll take a timeout as well.
The Tampa Bay Storm have had a
struggle tonight.
They look like they might be
ready to put this one away.
We'll have the final one twenty
three as the Faroes try and come
back from the dead.
You're looking at a very
important conference right now.
Tampa Bay coach Tim Markham
talking with Jay Gruden.
Like Walker what do you think
he's telling him now.
Jay whatever you do don't turn
it all over.
He's smart with that football
and be conscious of the clock.
We want it to take 16 out of
twenty three on the night for
Gruden to eleven on the yardage
two touchdowns one I.N.T.
Gruden looking left all the way
waiting for a receiver to break
open.
Nobody does.
Gruden throws it away.
He goes safe smart with the
football bank here applying the
pressure.
The clock will continue to roll
down to the one minute warning
in eight seconds and this will
bring up a four down and
Timothy will try and come in and
give Tampa Bay that 15 point
lead again as the clock stops
for the one minute warning.
This will not be a gimme.
I'll put this backward near the
twenty five yard line.
So it'll be around a thirty
three yard similar to be a
tonight.
It's been hot.
The problem with one P.A.T.
Yep.
The field goals.
I mean he's been scorched.
He's had a good night for
Memphis too.
Fifty one fifty three twenty
twenty five and forty nine in
my three years in the best
kicking on both sides I've
witnessed.
Well remember these uprights
only nine yards apart and the
bar the crossbar is 15 yards
high.
Now it's no chip shots in a
regular football.
Fifteen feet apart.
I should say.
This one is long enough.
It is no good, though.
No good.
So with 55 seconds left to go,
Memphis still has a shot,
because now, remember, the clock will stop
after incomplete passes,
after the change of move for a first down.
Well, look at the shot to score.
They got a kickoff.
You get an onside, you get the nets involved again.
I mean, you know, at this point,
as evident with Albany and St. Louis,
it's never over until the last take.
Well, next weekend, it's the semifinal round
of the Arena Football League playoffs,
Friday at 8.30 Eastern time, live on ESPN2.
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That's Friday at 8.30 Eastern time on ESPN2.
Now, next Saturday, one week from tonight
at midnight Eastern, nine o'clock Pacific time,
it'll be the other semifinal.
Albany now, the Victoria, 51-49.
They get the field goal, Firebirds alive.
And that's bad news for defenses
around the Arena Football League,
as Rezell Davis stops the clock.
Mike Perez with another week to come at you.
You're talking about setting up.
I don't know what the pairings would be right now,
but just to think about Albany and Tampa,
just a mere thought of that is electric.
Get out your calculator.
Yes, indeed.
Ball over the 10 to the 11 yard line
with 52 seconds left to play.
Well, the Firebirds went on the road.
A good inaugural season for old Bruce
and the St. Louis Stampede.
Spoiled tonight, though, with a playoff loss and all.
Tom, gotta go long.
Has his man, Benjamin.
Benjamin at the 10.
Benjamin out of bounds at the eight.
Stops the clock with 44 seconds left.
Boy, this kid will have a bright future in Arena Football.
Hey, you watch, you're going to crossing routes,
work on indoors, outdoors, watch the move.
Good footwork.
Williams is still in pretty good position,
but the ball right on the money.
Now, watch the extra effort.
And this smart, this heads-up play to get out of bounds.
And he lands right in front of the old pick-quick sign.
You gotta pick that ball off quick and go.
Pick-quick.
First and goal at the seven.
No, Heather, no.
I got piggly wigglies down here in Florida.
Oh, yeah.
Used to go top of the piggly wiggly all the time.
Here's cock, he's under pressure.
Now rolls right.
Gotta get rid of it.
Has the man, touchdown, and did he hold it?
No, he didn't hold it long enough.
Craig Lewis did not have it.
He didn't hold it long enough.
Boy, that's rough.
That's rough.
Let's see if Mike Better can give us another look at that.
That was borderline, I'll tell you.
I thought he might've had it enough.
Well, then that's great, but he's getting held right there.
But he still comes back again.
The ball is somewhat tipped.
No, no, no possession coming down.
He never secured it.
Never secured.
Well, cop, he's thrown it 42 times,
only connected on 50% of his passes.
That's not that good in this league.
No, that was sharp.
Good camera work, too.
Our guys have been smoking tonight.
36 seconds left in the game.
Cop's gotta have the touchdown here.
Just hauls off and throws it away on second down.
Benjamin was open, but he broke open too late.
Yeah, he had people open, too.
Now he's fighting the clock.
And here's another winner.
Guy with good hands, he gets a hug to top it off.
Two of them are gonna go out and play catch later on.
All right, let's follow Mr. Cop into the huddle.
Ram, 50 pound, first down, first down, ready?
Big third down, coming up here.
Of course, time is the real problem here.
30 seconds in the game.
30 ticks.
Somebody got a break open quickly.
Cop under a rush, he is down on a knee
and throws it out of bounds.
Nobody knocked him down.
He fell on his own.
And a fourth down.
One more play for the Faroes.
Yeah, see seven seconds and you don't get much out of it.
What do you think here, Coach?
Seminoles?
Yes.
Right, 52 seminoles.
Any Florida State players on this round?
Florida State's number one ranked team in the polls.
That's right.
That means number one in the end zone.
Bobby Bowden, that group.
Conn almost have foot problems again.
Why is this?
Everybody covered.
And the ball will go over on downs
and the Tampa Bay Storm will win this playoff game tonight
and stay home next weekend.
Gallon effort.
I mean, if you're from Memphis right now,
it's not what you want to hear,
but when you look at those players,
the Storm players are all bent over.
They played their guts out and boy, they were challenged.
Oftentimes when a team wins a championship,
you think back to the first round.
I remember back in 89, the hockey playoff,
Calgary Flames ended up winning the Stanley Cup.
Had to go to double overtime of a seventh game
to beat Vancouver, right?
They did so and they went on to win the Stanley Cup.
So it helps.
I've always said that when you get in,
sometimes you have a bye week in the NFL
and you sit around and you wait.
If you win the conference and that waiting
just drives you nuts.
In this case, they continue to play,
they get away with one
and it should really help them get focused.
So Tampa Bay will be home against whom we know not yet.
Coming up right after we're through,
Mike Tyson special.
Remember next week he takes on Hurricane Peter McNeely.
We'll have a Tyson special coming up next
with Steve Albrecht.
And the final seconds are gonna tick off
here at the Thunderdome.
Tim Markham and the Tampa Bay Storm
had their hands full tonight with the Memphis Faroes.
The Faroes to the final score of 53 to 41.
For Doc Walker, I'm Tommy saying thanks for tuning in
to our arena football coverage tonight.
Be sure and join us next Friday night on ESPN2.
This game produced by ESPN
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Video courtesy of WTOG, ESPN2 next Friday at 8.30.
ESPN next Saturday night at midnight
for round two of the Arena Football League Playoffs.
The Tampa Bay Storm, move on.
Good night everyone.