He became a phenom. He was incredible off the nets in Arenaball, ricochets off nets are live balls. Reggie had three or four kickoff returns of 50 yards. To be able to watch that close The whole place would chant 'Reg-gie, Reg-gie!
That was his Achilles heel. I want to play. I don't care that you have a set salary structure. But he couldn't play defense either! I put in the Branch-Smith rule, that you have one offensive specialist and he could have a replacement on defense.
The rule initially "worked great," Foster said, but "the idea has really drifted into the background, and I really miss it. Getting his kicks: Joe Kleinsmith went from St. Foster and football. The single-platoon idea was one of many proposals Foster initiated during his direct involvement with the league as commissioner or team owner, ending in He still lives in his home state, and if you think Iowa is slow-paced you'd be wrong listening to Foster, who rarely takes a breath when talking about his creation.
Foster, who ran track at his hometown University of Iowa, still goes to games and watches on television, and he will be in Cleveland for ArenaBowl.
He works in consulting, has had teaching stints at the university, and emphasizes mentoring students. But inside him is still a marketing agent. Foster knew Arena Football had to be promoted from the outset, but he also knew the game itself was important.
Instead, he wound up with a guy named Mouse. That would be Darrel "Mouse" Davis. Now retired, Davis had stints at every level of coaching. In , he served as executive director of football operations for the AFL. That title is a footnote in a long coaching career, but his influence remains on many levels. Davis didn't invent the run-and-shoot offense, but he championed it.
The idea of a motion-based offense with a mobile quarterback and receivers who constantly shifted routes and adjusted to defenses fit Arenaball comfortably, like pickup games with some order to them. He did a great job overall. Ironically, the person in Davis' role today as senior director of football operations is Joe Kleinsmith, a St. Ed's graduate who was born less than a year before Arena Football teams started playing. It didn't take long for him to see what the AFL does right.
We need to make sure we're putting on a good product. Then obviously we have solid owners, ones who care about the players but also about the product. Kleinsmith manages and oversees all the league's teams, which includes players, coaches and officials. He is the liaison between them and the league office.
A busy job, but he's used to handling a variety of tasks. In high school, he was a receiver, kicker, punter, defensive back — "anything the coaches needed, I did. Ed's, your ultimate goal is to play professional football.
In my mind I thought I would be tied to pro football. I did a reality check and realized my playing career was done, but I wanted to stay in pro football; it's been in my life for two decades. But Arenaball was not like the football he experienced on the gridirons in Lakewood or Bloomington, Indiana.
It's a whole new ball game. You have to get used to walls. As a defensive player you have to get used to knowing it's not if you are going to get beat, it's when you are going to get beat. One thing he's confident about is that his colleagues will be amazed by what he sees as "the buzz around Cleveland sports teams. While Clevelanders will be cheering the Gladiators, who are making their first ArenaBowl appearance, Foster looks back on a career, satisfied. Do I have my statue in the Hall of Fame?
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