Nine new expansion teams were approved for 2007 in the AF2: the Boise Burn, the Cincinnati Jungle Kats, the Fort Wayne Fusion, the Laredo Lobos, the Lubbock Renegades, the Mahoning Valley Thunder, the Texas Copperheads, the Tri-Cities Fever, and the Corpus Christi Sharks.

Most of the teams made a sustainable profit and the team owners were eager to see the AF2 continue for another year.

AF1 went on to purchase all assets of the original AFL and AF2, except for a few team names and logos owned by outside parties, in a December 2009 bankruptcy auction.

But after legal threats from the AF2 for using the " snake " motif, the team changed its name again, this time to the Tennessee Valley Raptors.

Dylan Pohlman, a soccer player and kicker for Tabor Football, played for the Wichita Stealth of AF2.

The arena has also served as the home for the Greenville Groove ( 2001 – 2003 ), one of the original members of the NBA Development League, as well as the Carolina Rhinos football team ( 2000 – 2002 ), one of the inaugural members of AF2, the Arena Football League's minor league, as well as both versions of Greenville's team in the ECHL, the first, the Grrrowl ( 1998 – 2006 ), hosting the 2002 Kelly Cup Finals, and the second, the Greenville Road Warriors.

He was Head Coach for the AF2 Tulsa Talons, leading them all the way to the playoffs in their inaugural season.

Lyles also played for in the AF2 for the Shreveport-Bossier Battle Wings in 2001.

In addition, the AF2 was similar to other minor leagues because AF2 teams played in smaller cities and smaller venues.

While the AFL was played in cities like Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Chicago, the AF2 fielded teams in cities which are part of metropolitan statistical areas ranging in size from Milwaukee ( with 1, 739, 497 residents ) to Albany, Georgia ( with 164, 000 residents ).

Prior to the 2007 season, controlling interest in the team was sold to Texas AF2 Holdings, LLC.

Between 1995 and 2006, the arena was the home venue to the San Diego Gulls of the ECHL and the San Diego Riptide of the AF2, but both franchises folded.

Following their first playoff season, Coach Moss was named the AF2 Coach of the Year.

The Iowa Barnstormers and Albany Firebirds, at least in name, were relegated from the top level Arena Football League down to its minor league, AF2, but the AFL and AF2 incarnations of each team were not the same legal entities.

Memphis has been represented by several now-defunct professional sports franchises, including the Memphis Pharaohs of Arena Football, the Memphis Maniax of the XFL, the Memphis Xplorers of the AF2, the Memphis Showboats of the USFL, the Memphis Southmen of the WFL, the Memphis Houn ' Dawgs of the ABA, the Memphis Sounds of the original ABA in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the Memphis Mad Dogs of the CFL.

They played four seasons in the Arena Football League from 2004 to 2007 and spent one season in AF2, the AFL's developmental league, in 2008.

Shortly before the end of 2008, the Arena Football League announced that it would not be playing a 2009 Spring season but that the play of its developmental league ( AF2 ) would continue as scheduled.

At the end of the 2009 season, a gathering of AF2 and AFL team owners set out to form their own organization, originally known as Arena Football 1.

Approved as a National Indoor Football League expansion team in October 2004, the Warbirds instead joined other teams in forming the United Indoor Football Association made up of teams that came from either the National Indoor Football League or AF2.

The Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Pioneers were a minor league arena football team that played in the AF2.

The Rio Grande Valley Dorados of arena football's AF2 league were tenants from 2004 until 2009, when the team folded along with the league.

Like parent AFL, the AF2 played using the same arena football rules and style of play.

The following is a list of teams that, at one time, played in the AF2.

The AF2 continued to operate while the AFL had suspended operations.

Like most other minor sports leagues, the AF2 existed to develop football players and also to help players adapt to the style and pace of arena football.

Players also earned less in the AF2, with each player making $ 200 per game.

The Texas, Laredo, and Tri-Cities teams moved to the AF2 from other indoor football leagues.

Won AF2 Title with Peoria in 2002.

They made playoff appearances in the AFL in 2006 and in AF2 in 2008.

However, as it became apparent that the AFL owners would not be able to adopt a workable business model, the AF2 team owners found themselves facing a problem.

With the AFL owning 50. 1 % of the AF2, it would fold if the AFL folded.

As the AFL and AF2 were having to deal with the fact that the AFL had overextended itself, two newer leagues were solidifying their positions in the world of Indoor football.

At least four franchises of the now defunct AF2 have chosen to join the IFL instead of aligning with the revived AFL.

It competed in the AF2 National Conference West.

Nearly half of fig species are gynodioecious, and therefore have some plants with inflorescences ( syconium ) with long styled pistillate flowers, and other plants with staminate flowers mixed with short styled pistillate flowers.

The long flowers styles tend to prevent wasps from laying their eggs within the ovules, while the short styled flowers are accessible for egg laying.

The short features Elmer Fudd in the role of Taylor, wearing his styled eyeglasses, who introduces two segments set to pieces by Johann Strauss ( Tales from the Vienna Wood and the Blue Danube, both featuring Porky and Bugs and Daffy respectively ).

He writes in the Southern Gothic aesthetic in his distinctly Faulknerian 1965 debut, The Orchard Keeper, and Suttree ( 1979 ); in the Epic Western tradition, with grotesquely drawn characters and symbolic narrative turns reminiscent of Melville, in Blood Meridian ( 1985 ), which Harold Bloom styled " the greatest single book since Faulkner ’ s As I Lay Dying ," calling the character of Judge Holden " short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literature "; in a much more pastoral tone in his celebrated Border Trilogy ( 1992 – 98 ) of bildungsromans, including All the Pretty Horses ( 1992 ), winner of the National Book Award ; and in the post-apocalyptic genre in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road ( 2007 ).

In this short, which was the first appearance of Kyle styled as he is in the series, he is given his first name.

** Boyleg ( or boyshorts ) are styled after men's briefs and may have short legs extending below the crotch.

* The narration for the spoof short film Hardware Wars ( 1977 ), which was styled as a mock film trailer, specifically parodying Orson Welles ' narration of the original Star Wars trailer.

Shermy's major physical characteristic was his short, dark hair, which he had styled in a crew cut on April 18, 1953, and kept that way permanently thereafter.

During Konstantin Chernenko's short time in office as General Secretary in 1984 – 1985 Romanov already occupied a position clearly inferior to Gorbachev, who had been styled Second Secretary of the Central Committee since February 1984 and acted as chairman of the Politburo, Secretariat and Central Committee in the course of Chernenko's long periods of absence due to his illness.

The short, catchy melodies which replaced the vaudevilles were known as ariettes and many opéras comiques in the late 18th century were styled comédies mêlées d ' ariettes.

It shared this trait with the roughly contemporary EA, E1 and E2, all built in 1937, but they were all full-size locomotives intended to pull much heavier trains, while the TAs were pocket-sized, styled to match the short, lightweight trains they hauled.

The first model, the RTS ( short for " Real Time System "), was designed by Prof. Dr. Katsuiko Sugaya, styled by the Porsche Design studio, and manufactured by Yashica as Top Secret Project 130.

A tour of the museum began with a welcoming message and short film narrated by Yoko Ono ( in Japanese with English headphones available ), and ended at an avant-garde styled " reflection room " full of chairs facing a slide show of moving words and images.

In a short time, Zumbi had organized a rebellion against Gana Zumba, who was styled as his uncle, and poisoned him.

BrainPop ( styled BrainPOP ) is a group of educational websites with over 1, 000 short animated movies for students in grades K-12 ( ages 6 to 17 ) covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, arts and music, health and technology.

A flattop is a type of very short hairstyle similar to the crew cut, with the exception that the hair on the top of the head is deliberately styled to stand up ( typically no more than an inch ) and is cut to be flat, resulting in a haircut that is square in shape.

* The shirt smock or Surrey smock is styled like a man's shirt, with a collar and a short placket opening in the front.

U-J3RK5's short lived local success was influenced by the music industry's infatuation with Martha and the Muffins styled male-female bands.